In America, communities have a lot of programs that help the homeless. The thing is that the homeless doesn't want to help themselves.
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Living an alternative life is fine. It is when some lady tells me I am big bad fascist for threatening the guy with no pants on waving a giant stick around screaming nonsense on the sidewalk. Like this guy is not ever going to care.
That is a very different experience and one I have yet to have 😂
It is so bad in the states. Hundreds of millions spent on ngo's salaries with no changes. Trying to maintain basic civil standards like remotely clean streets and safety means you are a nazi. The homeless are weilded like some kind of social weapon. They have become the most powerful force of urban design and it needs to stop.
It's clearly because public education sucks in US.
Even more than in contemporary Europe
Maybe it's because US societal model creates a lot of misery together with prosperity?
We are all responsible for our own choices. Also if you are mentally ill, you shouldn't be on the street.
I had a public education.
The UK closed down most of the mental asylum’s and treats mental health as care in the community.
The first house my wife and I rented before we bought, was a converted mental asylum 😂
For istance here in Italy we are (and always been) definetely poorer than the average american by most financial/income standards, but with all our huge faults and backwardness we still have much less people doing drugs or begging on the streets.
Our streets are safer than US ones.
Real poverty is still quite rare.
Same here
We are divided by a common language. In the UK, public schools are the posh schools you have to pay for 😂
Public school (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia
What??? Ahaha. How do you call public public schools?
Strange that people think it is cruel to institutionalize someone rather than let them rot on the street harming themselves and others.
State schools.
They are public because if you have the money, any member of the public can send their kid.
True
Probably one interesting difference is that here we have (had, sic) a stronger family oriented society. A very strong (sometimes disfunctional😅) familiar welfare.
Once you have enough money to not worry about money, wealth differences become moot.
Yes, I’ve noticed that myself in Italy.
We usually don't let a relative of ours (brother, son, cousin) rot into a street doing drugs or shit in the open air.