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   Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 20:31:37 JST Nicholas Sarwark

   We have to decide as a society what we will tolerate.

   We decided not to tolerate starvation.

   Now it's time to do homelessness.

   https://open.substack.com/pub/nsarwark/p/on-basic-standards-of-human-existence?r=15fsdm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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     Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 13:40:47 JST Nicholas Sarwark

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     • Steve Foerster 🌐

     @stevefoerster Force can't fix people, it can only coerce them.

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     Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 13:40:49 JST Steve Foerster 🌐

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     @nsarwark Without deconstructing the left-populist rhetoric, I agree that people should want to end homelessness. That starts by recognizing that in the majority of cases, solving it is a lot more complicated than just handing out cash to people on the street, and that in many cases it will take the initiation of force against the homeless to coerce them into changing their approach to their own mental health, drug abuse, etc.

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     Beeks (beeks@mstdn.party)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 09:34:36 JST Beeks

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     @nsarwark I don't see how UBI works with capitalism still in place. We saw with Covid when we gave out a weak UBI and quality of life went up and the economy went up, but then corporations remembered they were corporations and raised prices across the board which has made life for everyone but the 1% worse off.

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