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Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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Those roofers are kind of horrible. If someone homeless is sheltering somewhere weird you don't rush off and tell on them.
I wouldn't say they are horrible. They didn't go hunting for homeless people, they found an extension cord and nobody knew what was plugged into it. You wouldn't work on the roof with a random cable plugged in, and you wouldn't unplug it without knowing what it powers. So they had to track it down, and probably couldn't hide what they found.
What's horrible is society, just accepting that this is the good ending, not questioning why people are living in signs just to survive. What's horrible is that we, as a society, could house and feed every homeless person, could provide healthcare to all without breaking a sweat, could provide for the basic needs of everyone, and we simply choose not to because it would be bad for capitalists.
Well yeah that's the big picture for sure. I live in a country where there is no capital gains tax on houses and consequently no cheap housing anywhere in the country, because capitalism.
We have universal healthcare, but our housing situation creates a huge drain on it. It's infuriating.
I didn't think there was anything wrong with them looking, it was the telling management part that bothered me. As a society we're too quick to throw each other under the bus.