The “more houses than unhoused people …” line is not intended to suggest that we should find vacant homes in a random Kansas town and just start filling them up. Its like pointing out that we produce more than enough food for people to eat yet so many go underfed. Or that we have more than enough medicine supplies to vaccinate the entire world, but tons of people dying from preventable diseases. Etc etc.
Who is being deceived here? Is it not untrue that there are more homes empty than unhoused people in this country at any given point?
The point is demonstrating the failure of a system to adequately allocate resources to all of its citizens, not to think that maybe if the local McDonald’s didn’t throw out its cheeseburgers we could feed the hungry or some shit. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth pointing out the enormous food waste that occurs at all levels of the supply chain.
The “more houses than unhoused people …” line is not intended to suggest that we should find vacant homes in a random Kansas town and just start filling them up. Its like pointing out that we produce more than enough food for people to eat yet so many go underfed. Or that we have more than enough medicine supplies to vaccinate the entire world, but tons of people dying from preventable diseases. Etc etc.
Who is being deceived here? Is it not untrue that there are more homes empty than unhoused people in this country at any given point?
The point is demonstrating the failure of a system to adequately allocate resources to all of its citizens, not to think that maybe if the local McDonald’s didn’t throw out its cheeseburgers we could feed the hungry or some shit. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth pointing out the enormous food waste that occurs at all levels of the supply chain.