By the way, I suspect that we are reinventing some “anarcho-something-ism” here...
Thinking about the people at the bottom is a difficult trade-off: it would be better if they didn’t stay abandoned, but for everyone else it is better to stay far away from them.
Traditional solution: ignore them, or kill them if they become annoying
Religious solution: promise Heaven to those who volunteer to spend time with them
Socialist solution: put them in a mental institution and don’t talk about the topic anymore
Woke solution: leave them on the streets, don’t talk about the topic and attack those who do
...sorry for politics, but I tried to list all the solutions I am aware of.
I was thinking more of rift on UBI, not a fundamental reordering of society. Iceland has a system where you can declare you’re religious instantiation and money goes to it there, people have used that to have more community funded even non religious groups.
So this would be a combo of UBI and Sóknargjald (“congregation fee”). The main addition here is to make it fully non-religious and cap it at a size where you can actually know everyone else involved.
As for the what to do with people at the bottom question: Houston has done a better job than most with it’s housing first policies. The best programs to me are ones that aim to really prevent people from become homeless in the first place, once you’re mind has been ruined by a couple years of living outside and drugs it’s seem almost impossible to functionally reintegrate people into society.
Even if homeless circles, clearly forming community’s and pooling resources does work. For a good example of this I think of Camp Resolution in Sacramento. This, of course, does come with problems, so I understand why cops choose to break up these encampments, but I think it does cause a real damage to communities they destroy. If they could somehow get enough money (say through a program like the one I’m proposing) to at least do group aparments or something like that, I think it would go someway to allowing the more functional homeless people to reintegrate into society. I’ve worked a decent amount with the homeless, and there are a group who are certainly beyond help, but there at also a lot of people who I think still could be real productive members of society.
By the way, I suspect that we are reinventing some “anarcho-something-ism” here...
Thinking about the people at the bottom is a difficult trade-off: it would be better if they didn’t stay abandoned, but for everyone else it is better to stay far away from them.
Traditional solution: ignore them, or kill them if they become annoying
Religious solution: promise Heaven to those who volunteer to spend time with them
Socialist solution: put them in a mental institution and don’t talk about the topic anymore
Woke solution: leave them on the streets, don’t talk about the topic and attack those who do
...sorry for politics, but I tried to list all the solutions I am aware of.
I was thinking more of rift on UBI, not a fundamental reordering of society. Iceland has a system where you can declare you’re religious instantiation and money goes to it there, people have used that to have more community funded even non religious groups.
So this would be a combo of UBI and Sóknargjald (“congregation fee”). The main addition here is to make it fully non-religious and cap it at a size where you can actually know everyone else involved.
As for the what to do with people at the bottom question: Houston has done a better job than most with it’s housing first policies. The best programs to me are ones that aim to really prevent people from become homeless in the first place, once you’re mind has been ruined by a couple years of living outside and drugs it’s seem almost impossible to functionally reintegrate people into society.
Even if homeless circles, clearly forming community’s and pooling resources does work. For a good example of this I think of Camp Resolution in Sacramento. This, of course, does come with problems, so I understand why cops choose to break up these encampments, but I think it does cause a real damage to communities they destroy. If they could somehow get enough money (say through a program like the one I’m proposing) to at least do group aparments or something like that, I think it would go someway to allowing the more functional homeless people to reintegrate into society. I’ve worked a decent amount with the homeless, and there are a group who are certainly beyond help, but there at also a lot of people who I think still could be real productive members of society.