• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Best of all, the Vancouver study concluded that doing so actually reduces government spending.

    Makes you wonder about the people dead set against this sort of thing

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, quite a lot of people only feel self worth through others misery. You could give them everything, but if others didn’t have less they’d be miserable.

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      They’ve likely associated homelessness with drug use, and drug use with a moral failing. Or they just don’t have any empathy at all and are ignorant of the benefits we all get from helping those in need.