I was invited to visit Seattle for a onsite interview. When the interview was done I decided to tour the city. One thing I noticed is that near any sidewalk if there is a place to sit or sleep there are steel spikes installed there. Each bench has steel dividers. Below every bridge sidewalk we have by cycle racks. (Clearly you can’t park bikes there) It became very clear that someone has spent tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) to make the life of homeless people even more miserable than it already is. Why? Seattle is home to Bill Gates who donates billions of dollars for children in Africa. Doesn’t his eye see his own backyard? Or Bezos? Or that Starbucks guy who will contest 2020 presidential elections? I could see it on my second day in Seattle .... to me it looked like Seattle is on its way to become. Shithole like SF or LA.
Donating to kids in Africa (who can't do anything) is way different than allowing homeless people (adults who are physically able to work) to live their lazy life or keep staying high/drunk.
While some might just be lazy, a lot of people are on the streets because they’re disabled or have mental issues, can’t get treatment because they don’t have insurance, can’t get insurance because they don’t have a job, and can’t get a job because they are not healthy. See the issue?
You get in a deadlock if your conditions are originally set wrong. A physically able person to work must work. There's no excuse. If the person is physically ill that's a different conversation and I've never seen a physically ill homeless. 90% of the homeless I'm seeing every day in Seattle are drunk/high and have very high ego/attitude.
It's a very touchy subject, you don't want the streets to be homeless inviting, but still humane to those who had to.
Because these homeless don’t need compassion. They’re addicts who sell their house and get on drugs the moment you give them one. They have mental and attitude problems. Clearly you haven’t spoken to these so called homeless people and you naively think they need money and help. They need institutionalization into mental treatment centers, that’s what they need.
Addiction might be a disease, but a disease that people create for themselves. A person who was born with a defect or got a defect in an accident that he wasn't guilty in, is way different than a person who burns his money in a game that will eventually be called a disease.
I feel bad for them just like I feel bad for anyone who's made wrong decisions in life. That doesn't mean I (or the rest of the world) haven't. But there's a difference between a person who learns from his mistakes and a person who doesn't even admit it. And I have talked to several of them. My whole comment here was based on those conversations.
Fallacy of relative privation. Bill gates can solve whatever problem he wants. There are plenty of problems in the world and more than one person is solving problems at any given time
Did you interview at the dmv or king county court on 4th. Aligns with the description.
I decided to walk out of my hotel to see the impact of these things at 11:30 PM. I saw homeless people sitting on the bench and trying to sleep sitting upright. They could have easily lay down if the government had not spend thousands of dollars in expensive steel dividers? ( 2 per bench). Why?
Welcome to America! 🇺🇸
There is a very nice channel on YouTube which interviews homeless people called "Invisible People"
Check out HostileArchitecture on Reddit.