Post #1898095
2026-04-17 14:46 UTC
@SrRochardBunson
Alcoholics, drug addicts, and the mentally ill aren’t homeless because they are alcoholics, drug addicts, or mentally ill. They are homeless because they are poor. Rich alcoholics, drug addicts, and mentally ill people live indoors.
What *really* needs treatment is the sick, evil economic system that enprisons us all. Just because you sleep indoors doesn't mean you are free. A gilded cage is still a cage.
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@LevZadov@kolektiva.social 2026-04-17 16:22
@SrRochardBunson Old white guy here. I never picked cotton or rowed a galley but I know *exactly* how it feels to be a slave because I was a prisoner once. Then there’s the matter of commuting to work. If you *have to* do it but you don’t get paid for doing it, what’s that called? How many hours of a workers life is spent commuting? And that’s just the time. What do we call the hours that paying for the car's gas and upkeep? I could go on but why bother? Albert Parsons explained capitalism better than I ever could. Of course they hung him for it. “Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.” -- Albert Parsons