I've always felt a mix of fear, compassion and guilt when it comes to homeless people. In the UK, both London and suburbia (where I'm from) have seen the issue visibly intensify over the last decade or two.
Here as anywhere, it's a number issue. After discovering the YIMBY movement maybe half a decade ago, I began to realize, the next big social justice movement, has go to be whatever reframing of <this whole thing> -- housing and urban policy -- is required to ensure society never again returns to this kind of supply shortage and general climate of s...
Being forced by circumstance to make hyper-rational decisions all the time is the very kernel of poverty. A kind of poverty like this, financial or emotional or intellectual, may be the spiritual seed of creative genius, which will always expound how "creativity thrives in constraints".
Do I care about people being more rational? Personally, about some things, sure. For example, I wish for a civilization that optimizes for cheap enough housing that I can be 90s-levels of un-optimal about how I spend the current chapter of my life. That's from my (maybe unpo... (read more)