LogFAQs > #954745634

Nah.

First, let's not conflate "homeless" and "unemployed", as this person is doing (let's say they find employment, but not a home, within that 12 months - or had employment the whole time, even - what then?).

For the homeless side, fucking hell. Find a spare house and put them in it. Tell some boomer who owns 50 empty houses "hey, we're using one of yours to house the homeless, deal with it", and if they complain, just use eminent domain or some equivalent to take it from them altogether, not like they fucking need it. If they've got a history of trashing places or just refuse to accept one, that's a trickier situation, sure, and I don't know exactly what would be the right way to solve that, but just doing this would at least put a big dent in the homeless numbers already, because a significant number of them would accept it and at least have good intentions in terms of looking after it (they may need to be taught how to actually do so - yes, some of you are going to think "what the fuck, everyone knows how to clean", but just ask yourself if you knew how to clean before someone taught you - now stop assuming everyone was taught the same things you were).

The unemployment side - now to be clear, this is about "unemployed and dependent on government support". If someone's unemployed but their partner supports them, or between jobs and living off their savings, etc, it's no one's business but their own. Also to be clear, it's about "unemployed but able to work", so don't bother with the "what about the people who genuinely can't work" - they're not who I'm talking about here. For those who are in the aforementioned situation - support absolutely does need to be available. And by "support", I don't just mean money, although that is part of it - "support" also means helping them find a job, and/or engage in training that would help them find one. And in turn, training is not just things like learning a workplace skill, but also around the processes - again, much like with the cleaning example above, not everyone magically knows how to handle a job interview etc. That includes people who've lucked out with it in the past.

Now if the individual themself wants to die? That's a situation I'm not gonna touch with a 10 foot pole in this post. But yeah, let's not force anything - let's help them out of that situation, as in genuine help to get out (not just "help them get by day to day, leaving them stuck in the same position forever but at least it's not getting worse"), rather than killing people who I'm sure don't want to be in that situation anymore than we want them to be there.

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