Solving a problem at its root cause is usually better than trying to fix the consequences of those causes. Just helping the homeless without addressing what pushes people to homelessness would be a never ending cycle of providing aid to new people pushed into homelessness
The truth is, this isn’t an accident. This is both a necessary consequence of, and a necessary precondition for, the vast wealth disparity that has been engineered into our society. We don’t change things not because we can’t, but because we don’t want to.
Regardless of whether or not we are addressing the root causes (which is not simply flipping a switch and might likely still not be successful) we still need to address the consequences, and we need more funding to do that. You have to live below the poverty line just to work in a career where you get to help people. I know many people with master’s degrees who are themselves struggling with food and housing insecurity because they have chosen to spend their lives trying to help people. And it’s not as though it’s due to an over abundance of other people competing with them in that space… Like teachers buying their own teaching supplies, social workers have to pick up a lot of slack out of their own pockets. People who want to help and are trained to help simply cannot afford to help. It’s a very bad situation.
I would really like to see the government taking on the responsibilities they shed to NGOs over the last three decades. How has this improved anything??
Solving a problem at its root cause is usually better than trying to fix the consequences of those causes. Just helping the homeless without addressing what pushes people to homelessness would be a never ending cycle of providing aid to new people pushed into homelessness
The truth is, this isn’t an accident. This is both a necessary consequence of, and a necessary precondition for, the vast wealth disparity that has been engineered into our society. We don’t change things not because we can’t, but because we don’t want to.
Regardless of whether or not we are addressing the root causes (which is not simply flipping a switch and might likely still not be successful) we still need to address the consequences, and we need more funding to do that. You have to live below the poverty line just to work in a career where you get to help people. I know many people with master’s degrees who are themselves struggling with food and housing insecurity because they have chosen to spend their lives trying to help people. And it’s not as though it’s due to an over abundance of other people competing with them in that space… Like teachers buying their own teaching supplies, social workers have to pick up a lot of slack out of their own pockets. People who want to help and are trained to help simply cannot afford to help. It’s a very bad situation.
I would really like to see the government taking on the responsibilities they shed to NGOs over the last three decades. How has this improved anything??