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  • Rogers@lemmy.mltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldXXX
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    7 months ago

    The message is that it’s not only the unwashed pan handlers that are homeless. There are a lot of people that are or have been productive members of society that still become homeless. In the US a lot of the obvious homeless have major mental health conditions so many just assume that’s the main issue behind the majority of homless. When in reality it’s low wages that don’t keep up with inflation let alone inceases in cost of living


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    I was homeless in 2012 for about half a year. It was quite the eye openening experience. Most of us hid that we were homeless the best we could so the cops wouldn’t falsely arrest us for being “drunk in public”. Lot’s of people had cars but couldn’t afford gas. Roughly 80% of us never pan handled, and were as clean as we could be. I learned to sleep in the park during the day and keep moving at night.


  • Definitely not practical and not designed for the person that uses it. Great way for companies like Amazon to save a buck while making life harder for the people that get paid the least.

    • Hardly any protection from the elements
    • no place to put a drink or anything
    • have you ever been on a bicycle seat all day?
    • not safe if your on a road with cars/trucks

    Maybe it would work for a college campus or something, but small electric box trucks would be far better for the person doing the work.