Archived Winnipeg program that pays homeless $11/hr to clean streets full every day (cbc.ca)
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Archived Winnipeg program that pays homeless $11/hr to clean streets full every day (cbc.ca)
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[–] guinness2 ago (edited ago)
Most of them are drug addicts and alcoholics, so yeah, they are being paid to commit suicide.
If the homeless were given $100 per day for also removing the corpses of homeless people who overdosed or died of alcoholism then they'd "solve" the problem much sooner.
[–] WickedVocalist 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Well in the US it is said that something like 20% of the people currently employed have been homeless AND unemployed or out of work at some point in their lifetime.
Meaning out of 1 out of 5 odds, you might say crap like that at work to 5 people, and 1 of them knows you aren't immune. The big winning question is do you even have the temerity to get up if you fall, or would you fall and sit around and never bother to try again?
Then if you did get up, someone with your attitude might knock you out while you're already down.
At that point, I suggest there is about a 33% chance that you wake up someday and your wordlview will change, but then again, you might stay asleep at the wheel and screw yourself later anyway, never realizing that you are the lucky exception of people who never had to go hungry or sleep rough, and that you aren't even thankful for being that lucky either.
Oh by the way, if you want sources go google it yourself because I am not on your payroll and I don't do anything for free.
But then again, you're immune, right?
That won't ever happen for you, will it?
Maybe someone who takes offense to your abject privilege and narrow, bigoted disgusting hopeless worldview who is disabled, or a refugee, a ex homeless vet who got hired in your workplace, or some other person who has risen above adversity and is despised for it by you and your like will sue you out of your job and be paid to watch you do whatever they did that you diss all day.
You're nothing but a run of the mill bully, throwing stones and making sure only the young and naive or rich and elite ever get a chance in your world of haves and have nots, of black and white stereotypes and prejudice.
You'd be shocked if you ever had to experience 2 days sleeping rough - because you'd either sell out to a life of crime or you'd change your narrow mind realizing how much 2 days of being homeless can make a very normal person seem crazy, filthy, and untouchable nearly overnight.
A person could be reduced to the corner for things like losing their job, for things like leaving a cheating spouse, for things like being divorced or being laid off involuntarily, for being ill or even just for being disliked.
It doesn't wash to use the cruel stereotypes and I don't doubt you've labeled me crazy already, but it doesn't make you right or qualified to judge me does it?