Recently released data for the first six months of 2024 from Toronto Public Health has found that the median age of death for women experiencing homelessness in the city is just 36.
In 2022, unhoused women who died in Toronto were on average 42 years old. That number was 43 in 2023.
The median age at death for men experiencing homelessness in the first half of 2024 was 50.
Torontonians residents, in general, live much longer with men typically dying at the age of 78 and women at the age of 85, according to 2022 data.
It’s not an issue inherent to any regime, but one of economic motivators. The fundamental economic system is designed around the idea of squeezing value upwards through any means necessary. Governments are the force that prevents this sort of thing from happening excessively via regulations. It’s why Canada wasn’t hit nearly as bad as other countries during the 2008 financial crisis, because we had good banking regulations that prevented the worst from that happening over here. Unfortunately, those regulations got demolished a few years later, but the principal itself stands.
Part of governments is to be the moral stand that forces the economy to include morality as part of its working principal, despite every incentive of capitalism is to discard morality as an obstacle. It’s the balancing force that makes a country prosper not just materially, but culturally and morally.
That said, it is the failure of modern governments to enforce such moral behaviour these last two decades especially, but it is also a failure of us voters to force them to make good and uphold such morals in the first place. Governments are supposed to fear the masses, but we’ve let them go without fear for so long that they have all become quite entitled to their positions.
I would also add that the encroachment of the religious far-right from America has had a detrimental effect on how voters judge who is and is not acting in a “moral” way. Religiosity is still seen as having a “moral code”, even tho there are dozens/hundreds of immoral acts commited by such people (and institutions).
Well, plenty of religious people simply use their religion as a shield and don’t actually follow the tenants.
I mean, it’s a common thing for atheists to know the bible better than people who wave around crosses screaming about Jesus doing this or that all the time.
That said, this last decade or so had the left using moral outrage as their founding principal to enforce their own “morals” onto others, stating that any other opinion on the subject is invalid and contravenes morals, despite the very act of denying others a voice in itself is immoral.
Pretty much every group can use morality as a weapon to discriminate against others when they embrace anger and hate as their motivation.