A number of homeless are indeed are victims of our terrible socio-economic system. However I have heard many homeless outreach workers say the same thing "The ones who stay homeless are the ones who stay addicted". Addiction is a serious issue and the challenge of beating it is nothing we should dismiss, however it is clear some people end up homeless due to drugs and stay homeless due to a refusal to get clean. When your life is centered around just getting high, you won't care much about anything else. All the horrors of living on the street disappear once you get your fix, and some people are okay living like that.
I guess I'm writing all this to say that homelessness is a very complex and nuanced issue. They aren't all victims, they aren't all criminals, they aren't all mentally ill, they aren't all addicts, and for some its the only life they've ever known.
This is why the conversation around homelessness is so difficult. People just latch onto their idea of what being homeless is then build their argument from there, dismissing the remaining context of the concept.
I highly suggest doing homeless outreach to broaden your perspective on the matter (look up a local Food Not Bombs group if you live in a city!). If that isn't something you'd like to do, there are plenty of videos on youtube that give you more insight into the homelessness experience. Obviously watch out for the videos that treat living on the streets as a spectacle or oddity, I absolutely hate these videos because they serve to shock and entertain, not educate.
That was the biggest mindblow for me, and I really appreciate that the first biblical scholars didn't try to bury the truth when archaeology conflicted with the bible.
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Many of these answers are great, thank you for being graet, lemmy is great.
This is a much more legalese take, I feel like some folks would disagree in terms of the spirit of wage theft vs the letter of the concept. I like it though, I appreciate it, I appreciate you.
I'll buy 3 more, thanks for the advice
Interesting, interesting, I appreciate the perspective that wage theft can be committed by employees, although I'd be comfortable committing wage theft against my company, if I was paid hourly, they fucking suck.
Wouldn't the exemption be considered wage theft though? What makes this scenario more complex?
I say we just ignore it, everytime someone mentions it one red blood cell enters the Muskian dick
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Based on all the replies it really juist seems like this system is fucking shit at giving people a resource to live their damn lives.
That is wild, so many salary jobs act like you should work more than 40 hours. I even had a manager that said upper level employees should be willing to work more than 40 hours per week. What a cock wart.
I really like your response, you seem like a kind warmhearted person, I wish you the best,
The thing I'm now realizing is that I too have been a victim of wage theft, but didn't suspect anything under the guise of "the system is good numbers always go up YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW"
Cheers to my sinking mental health yet again, I think I'll name her the titanic fucking capitalist icebergs everywhere.
You explain it so simply, and yet I was so confused before hand, thank you so much, why is life so hard?
I'm not like a super political person, and from my understanding its the idea that if I make a $10 thing for the bossman, but only get $1 that is wage theft?
But like, when I took the job I knew how much I was going to make?
Or is it like, people are literally not getting their paychecks?
I'm slightly inebreated, lazy, and don't want my algorithms to start becoming politically charged from googling and youtubing this. I'm already collapse aware and my mental health is ultra fragile.
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Wow I applied to Cloudflare a few months ago, glad I got rejected because I was just laid off late last year.
Last time I checked there aren't nerve endings in our brain, so it should be impossible to feel sensations in my brain. However, at random times during my life, like seeing the plot twist in Fight Club for example, I've felt feelings in my brain. I just felt it again now while doing some intense introspection, and I just wanted to see if anyone else has this happen?
I'm looking to get the A+ and Networking certs only because I'll probably be laid off soon and I want to make myself even more marketable. Right now I'm a software developer with 8 years of Java experience, and from my initial studying I think the certifications shouldn't be too hard.
However, I may not have the time (or money) to make multiple attempts, so I was wondering if anyone had any good resources tailored to folks who are already technical to help me study.
I know some folks might say I don't need them, but my resume needs more buzzwords to get picked up by recruiters and hiring managers, and I'm open to all kinds of work as long as it keeps a roof over my family's head.
I spent 8 years doing Java development, layoffs are coming soon (my second time this year! 😊), I know how hard it is to get a job out there, and I'm tired of Java. So I was wondering if anyone had any advice for pointing my career in a new direction. I'd like there to be some technical aspect to it still, which is why I am posting here instead of elsewhere.
Right now I'm really into Lua, Vue.js, and am considering picking up CompTIA and AWS certifications just to make myself more marketable.
I have good people skills too, so if a career involves talking more than coding I'll be okay with that. I spent part of this year teaching programming and loved it (but due to the state of the industry many academic businesses are closing down).
Or you know, should I sell my home and just go live in the woods until I die of malnutrition because at this rate we'll all end up there anyways?
I just find this video ultra fascinating
I have stuff I'd like to post, but I can't find the appropriate community to post to. So is there like a "hey I have no clue where to post this" type of community where the general lemmy public could point you in the right direction?
Also what do we call ourselves? Lemmyors?
Like so, it would make scrolling through posts more cohesive and it would be easier to skim.
Hey all,
I'm learning Lua and come from a Java background, and have been diving deep into Lua "classes".
Realizing that a Lua "class" is just some clever syntactic sugar, and lacks encapsulation, I've found that closures can act like a Java class and protect it's state. An added bonus is my muscle memory won't struggle with : vs . for function calls, a pitfall I've already wasted time debugging.
I'm new to all this though, is there anything I'm missing? Is a Lua "class" with self and : a better choice than using a closure like a class?
Still shit, it felt like I was on facebook. I scrolled for 53 seconds before I gave up.
This is a very well researched and level headed look at fat positivity. I really enjoyed watching this and hope you do too!