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Housing is a human right. We already have gigantic amounts of housing that sits empty, new building projects are not the priority.
The government should be in charge of constructing new housing developments to meet the needs of the community. People can also pool resources together to build those things, in the absence of rent and mortgages people would have substantially higher incomes. Over time this would balance out, but would still be doable in the long term.
No one should be homeless. Even if you are able bodied and refuse to work. The amount of people who are able bodied and refuse to work is microscopic. You have been misled by conservative propaganda to believe that welfare recipients are lazy. Welfare recipients are people who for one reason or another are unable to work. This is almost exclusively people with disabilities.
But yes, I think even if you decide to do literally nothing just cause you dont want to, you should still have shelter. Shelter is a human right; housing is a human right. It is a crime against humanity to deny people housing. And if youre that contrarian, to literally be like har har I wanna make a point about how dumb free housing is so ill do literally nothing, you probably have some problems you should sort through in therapy.
You should probably look into a bit of game theory, specifically the Free Rider's Dilemma
And the government gets the money for this from where? Does it fall from the money tree? You know that's not free right? It's just people who work pay for it, which I am completely fine with for people who NEED it, voluntarily unemployed don't need it, they made their decision.
Ah yes, those well known free resources.
Says you... I can say it's more close to half the population, we both pulled that info from our asses, didn't we though.
It would balance out really fucking quickly not over time, take a fucking econ 101 class and look at some basic supply-demand charts...
Unless we reach a post scarcity world ala Star Trek what you are describing is a fever dream.
I had a nice long response typed up, but I genuinely do not have the energy to pick through what a thoroughly ridiculous comment this is. You're not actually here to have a meaningful conversation on this subject either, you are only here to propagandize for capitalists. So I'll save myself the time and energy.
Yep, I am being paid by Jeff Bezos personally, lmao.🤣