• Xhieron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 years

    Crime. I’d do crime. I’m too old to join the Navy, too poor to get some debt. So I’d do the same thing the overwhelming majority of Americans who find themselves in the situation do: Crime.

    Which crime? Well, the likelihood of this actually happening to many people who are currently gainfully employed and financially stable is uncomfortably high, so some cards I just have to keep close, and you should too.

    No war but the class war.

  • Threadsdeadbaby@lemmy.world
    3 years

    I’m a woman so I would become a temp prostitute. I would avoid hard drugs. Bank roll and buy a van. Live in van. Great success.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    3 years

    It’s sad how easy it is to tell who’s from the US and EU here.

    Basically “you’re fucked, be a criminal or die” versus, “go to the Social Services and tell them you’re homeless”

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    3 years

    Very important post. We need solutions, not judgements or moralistic catchphrases that are impossible (bootstraps)

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    3 years

    Go to the library and look up government assistance programs. There are usually some programs to help you, even if you have to jump through miles of hoops.

  • 🍔🍔🍔@toast.ooo
    3 years

    i dunno, the premise of this question seems to me like homelessness is a riddle that homeless people just have not figured out. im pretty sure that if the answer could be crowdsourced in eight hours from eighty sysadmins on the toilet, it wouldn’t be such an intractable problem

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      3 years

      Homelessness is never a choice. It is always circumstantial (i.e. very very bad luck and nobody to turn to for help) or based on something like a mental health or substance abuse disorder.

      • Classy@sh.itjust.works
        3 years

        It seems like 100% the problem is a lack of support. Substance abuse is tied quite a bit to having a lack of support and connections to healthy people. It’s why things like AA help people, they have access to a real person who cares about their recovery. Bad home life, being abused, mental health leading to homelessness, it all sounds like ways of saying “unsupported and left to the elements.”

  • hanekam@lemmy.world
    3 years

    I would go the Social Services office and explain my situation. Provided I could prove my identity I would walk out with a couple hundred dollars cash, an address for decent temporary accommodations, and an appointment with a case worker to find a more permanent solution for me.

    That’s the security of the Nordic welfare state.

    • okamiueru@lemmy.world
      3 years

      So many plots for series only make sense in the US. Your answer in comparison to many others here show why.

      It’s mostly just sad. I don’t mean it in a condescending way. Reading that people would likely just kill themselves, turn to prostitution, do crime, etc.