• Kornblumenratte@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    We do have homeless people in Europe/Germany.

    Thank you for your explanation. My problems understanding these panels were

    • The kids in the panels. TIL, it is possible for kids to be homeless in the US. It’s hard for me to imagine that a society would let there kids be homeless. We got kids who fled from home and do not accept any help, thus being homeless in Germany as well, but these kids are on the run, not in schools or in cars with their mother.
    • The idea that a woman having a car and a kid might be homeless is totally alien to me, as well. The only possibility I can think of how this could happen is if she just ran away spontaneously neglecting all help she could get – that does happen, of course, and probably I’m just too naive.
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      8 months ago

      It’s hard for me to imagine that a society would let there kids be homeless.

      The kids are homeless because their parent is homeless. In Europe, are you guaranteed a home as long as you have children?

      The idea that a woman having a car and a kid might be homeless is totally alien to me, as well.

      It’s actually more likely if you have a car. Cars are a money sink.

      The only possibility I can think of how this could happen is if she just ran away spontaneously neglecting all help she could get

      The US does not guarantee you a home if you have a child. If countries in Europe do that, that’s awesome, but the US definitely does not.

      Sure, there are charities, but there aren’t enough resources to help everybody.

      • kofe@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Technically there are plenty enough resources to help, we just don’t adequately distribute them. Jeff bezos has like 4 condos in NYC alone iirc, (or maybe that’s musk) but he definitely also has a mansion with 24 fucking bathrooms.

      • Gabu@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        There are way more resources than necessary. Capitalists fabricate scarcity to hoard wealth

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      8 months ago

      My guess is that your society has the same problem to a much smaller degree and you just don’t know about it.

    • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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      8 months ago

      For the woman having a car, the issue stems from the US not having stellar public transport, so she had to have a car so that she can work and send her kids to school, even at the expense of not having enough money to afford a home.