You kinda can. Capitalism provides no incentive to help this man (actually, it provides a disincentive because the time and/or money needed to help this man could be spent on more profitable endeavors). The support structures that may exist are not capitalistic, are disincentived, and obviously not adequate.
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echodot@feddit.uk 9 months agoI do understand the sentiment but the thing is a lot of homelessness isn’t because people don’t have money not exactly. They may have support systems that they can make use of but if they have other problems they may not be inclined to use those support systems.
You can’t just blame capitalism for homelessness, not exclusively.
31337@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
livus@kbin.social 9 months ago
Personally I blame it for the bulk of it in my country. We have a massive housing crisis caused by housing unafordability.
The middle class here mainly invest in rentals (not stockmarket) and then use them as AirBnBs that sit empty half the time.
Meanwhile whole families are living in garages or worse, cars. People who are sane and ordinary and work are living in substandard shitholes.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which systems do you have in mind? Because homeless shelters are not a solution to homelessness.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But mattress stores are?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Where did you extrapolate that from?