Beau Locks

@kferrDC @jasonbourne4206 @aakashgupta yeah this has demonstrated how bad faith you are in this whole discussion

@jasonbourne4206 @everyoneistwp @aakashgupta Again, it didn’t work here. Idgaf what Portugal is doing

This photo is the entire American cost curve story in a single frame. You can buy a 1080p mini projector on Amazon for $49. A refurbished laptop for $150. A Bluetooth speaker for $25. Total home theater setup: under $250, and the prices dropped 95% in the last 15 years. A studio apartment in Hollywood rents for $1,986 per month. That's $23,832 per year for 518 square feet. The same neighborhood where this tent is pitched. Technology followed a deflation curve. Computing power per dollar doubles roughly every two years. Storage costs collapse. Screens get cheaper. A device that cost $3,000 in 2010 costs $49 in 2026 and fits in your palm. The projector in this tent is almost certainly better than anything a mid-tier hotel offered 10 years ago. Housing followed an inflation curve. LA rents are up 65% over the last decade. The county has 72,308 people experiencing homelessness. The median rent requires an income of roughly $110,000 to afford without being cost-burdened. California added about 100,000 housing units per year while needing 180,000. So this is what happens when one cost curve goes to zero and the other goes vertical. You get a man projecting a movie onto the wall of a tent in Hollywood because the entertainment is the cheap part. The four walls are the expensive part. A projector costs $49. A studio in Hollywood costs $24,000 a year. 72,000 people in LA County can afford the home theater. The door that locks is the part that broke. That ratio tells you everything about which problems we solved and which ones we chose not to.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta do you support universal healthcare?

It literally isn’t complex. Some people are dumb, lazy, mentally ill, or addicts. And we don’t wanna do what’s required to handle those last 2. We should build more housing no doubt. Wayyyyy more. But we can’t make people not be those 4 things by just handing them shit or making excuses

@kferrDC @jasonbourne4206 @aakashgupta being born in an economy where my government will protect my employers right to pay me below survival rates for the sake of their shareholder value?

@everyoneistwp @jasonbourne4206 @aakashgupta Like what? And what was this sudden unlucky thing that also caused you to have low pay and no money?

@kferrDC @aakashgupta what percentage of homeless in america are ‘short term’ vs ‘long term’? how many wouldn’t have become ‘long term’ if they’d actually gotten support when they were still ‘short term’

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta Sure but we aren’t talking about short term homelessness like that. We are talking about living in a tent on the streets. Totally different group.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta i actually think the person working 40 hours a week serving coffee should still be able to afford to live

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta If you can’t make over $7.25 an hour as an adult you are literally mentally retarded and have zero skills. That’s on you

@kferrDC @aakashgupta bro you really think if it wasn’t complex it wouldn’t have been solved by now? it’s complex, we haven’t fixed it bc politicians just look for short term solutions to produce results before next re-election. solving homelessness is going to take more than 4 years

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta It’s not complex, you just want to jump through hoops to make excuses for people

@kferrDC @aakashgupta you’re not offering them help you’re demonising and dehumanising them

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta No, I’m someone that’s worked with them and stopped having a child’s view like you. These are sick people that need help, whether they want it or not n

@kferrDC @jasonbourne4206 @aakashgupta who pays for that?

Well actually it is. We should no decriminalize drugs. We should force treatment in drug treatment facilities or mental health facilities. No option but that or jail. Once they complete treatment they go to sober supervised housing. Once they clear they, less supervised sober housing and job support.

@kferrDC @jasonbourne4206 @aakashgupta you literally can get unlucky enough to suddenly not know anyone or qualify for an apartment

@jasonbourne4206 @everyoneistwp @aakashgupta I read what you sai. Unlucky doesn’t mean you no longer know anyone, or have the inability to live with anyone

@jasonbourne4206 @kferrDC @aakashgupta this guy just wants to live in the world he created in his head 30 years ago he has no clue about anything to do with homelessness in the modern day, maybe he has very little going on in his life so the homeless are the only people he make himself feel superior to

@kferrDC @everyoneistwp @aakashgupta Think you skipped like 90% of what I wrote but sure. No one ever gets unlucky or has uncalled for bad shit happen to them.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta you’re still homeless if you’re sofa surfing or living in your car

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta Not homeless on the streets. That’s counting people in cars, couch surfing, shelters, etc

@kferrDC @aakashgupta it’s not primary teens, less than half are under 25. so try again i literally do not give a shit what you were paid 30 years ago. my parents bought a house for less than 50k 30 years ago you’re out of touch

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta Also 1% of all workers make $7.25. It’s an irrelevant number, primarily made by teens (and even then not really). I made $8.25 working retail in the South almost 30 years ago at 16 lol.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta really amazing how loudly and confidently people will talk about things they clearly have no idea the complexities of

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta If they had the skills to make more, they’d be doing it. And if they had the mental capacity they’d be with roommates.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta you’re clearly not mentally competent enough to handle a complex issue like homeless in the modern us this is literally a five year olds mentality

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta I don’t think they should trash the place and still sleep on the streets either but here we are

@kferrDC @jasonbourne4206 @aakashgupta and how are we handling that? are we going to support universal healthcare and decriminalisation of drugs so people can get addiction support rather than getting caught in the prison system? just saying ‘put them in an asylum’ isn’t a solution

@jasonbourne4206 @everyoneistwp @aakashgupta 2/3rds? No lmao. 1/5th would be generous. If they need mental health treatment or drug addiction treatment, that must be handled first

@kferrDC @aakashgupta the conditions those decisions are made under are caused by corporations seeking yearly increased profits over anything else literally your hypothetically is blown apart of someone doesn’t know anyone who can put them up or if they don’t own a car you’re clearly v out of touch

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta Those bad decisions aren’t on corporations.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta 40-60% of homeless are employed you really think 7.25 an hour is enough to live anywhere?

Who isn’t paid enough to live? If you’re impvrished, you get paid by the govt to live. If you make more than tha, you can get a roommate (and the vast majority of people live with someone anyways.) some folks make bad decisions, don’t bother to gain skills..sometimes you fall on hard times and couch surf or sleep in your car for a month or so ..but to be on the streets, you have made multitudes of bad decisions.

@kferrDC @aakashgupta healthcare maybe? or a job that actually pays enough to live and doesn’t pass on all the societal ills of low wages onto the tax payer to fix?

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta What “support” exists that doesn’t equal giving them housing but not institutionalize them

@kferrDC @aakashgupta we ignoring that she’s not complaining about housekeeping, she’s saying there’s roaches and they said they’d come exterminate them and they haven’t i don’t think homeless people should have to accept roach filled houses. sorry.

@everyoneistwp @aakashgupta This one was right down the street from a place I used to live x.com/liquid2ulu/sta…

@kferrDC @aakashgupta if you have that much of an issue do you pressure multi-billion corporations to actually pay their workers enough to live? or do you just demonise an easy-to-degrade group of society bc you don’t actually understand what put them there?

I don’t care what’s cheaper. What is better is what matters. If you don’t have the ability to take care of yourself, nor the mind or attitude to do it or to not burn every bridge you have, you clearly have mental issues or addiction issues and need to be treated. I have zero interest in people like that being in society out in the open. It’s not good for them and it’s not good for the rest of us. Just throwing fucked up people in housing doesn’t help them