Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Explained with Dom" channel.

  1. 1) There were always homeless shelters all across Canada. I think you mean street homelessness. Before that became common, un-sheltered homelessness existed on the outskirts of towns, or anywhere there were disused buildings or properties. 2) It was around the late 1980s that crack made its appearance in Canada. Soon after, homelessness exploded. 3) The emptying out of mental hospitals began in the 1970s, due to immense pressure from activists and media.🤨 For many years, group homes and cheap rooming houses alleviated the problem, but in later decades exploding real estate prices and a reduction or freeze in welfare rates greatly decreased the supply of such accommodation. When this occurred, causing homelessness, the activists blamed governments for closing the hospitals as they had demanded.😠 4) The surge in homelessness around 20-25 years ago had to do mainly with opioids ('opiates', until synthetic forms not derived from opium necessitated a new term). Again, this was thanks to activists.🤨 They publicly badgered the medical field until doctors finally relented under incredible pressure to begin writing vastly more opioid prescriptions. The activists had insisted that people with pain were being inhumanely denied relief, while the doctors, who knew their field quite well, insisted that a vast increase in addiction would follow. The decisive factor was the media. Reporters, spurred by activists, wrote countless emotionally-charged articles calling the doctors callous and unfeeling, and as I said, they finally got their way. Later, when addiction, homelessness, overdoses and deaths skyrocketed, the media then blamed the doctors for doing exactly what they had demanded.😠 Moral: when activists and media team up to force change, disaster is quite likely to follow.🤨 It is my belief that every major problem facing Canadian and Western society is rooted in activist pressure to follow their theories about how to improve society and increase justice.😠 In my view they are not the right people to decide anything. They are unaccountable to anyone and never admit guilt for their serial blunders. Never.
    132
  2. That's a moral position ('it should be such-and-such a way', 'somebody should do something'), not a practical one ('here's how'). Show, don't tell. What good is wagging one's finger? You are calling on others to sacrifice what they have. You could instead put a homeless person on your couch every night, or some equivalent sacrifice. That would be putting your money where your mouth is.
    1
  3.  @warehousejo007  That is the dullest, most out of touch, least relevant response to my post conceivable. Congratulations, you've earned a coveted place in the Guinness Book of Rabid, One-Track-Minded Hyper-partisans. That's something they can never take away from you.
    1
  4. Go back and look again! It's 0.18%! Edit your comment, please! It is misinformation, and although most people will see it as such, some dull people will not! So upsetting.
    1
  5. I don't think it's enough to cover any sort of rent. (This may not be true everywhere.)
    1
  6. Getting people off the sidewalks is good. So is saving 15k euros a year per person on side costs. But I still see two problems. 1) Moral hazard. Why will people tackle their problems when a luxury rescue swoops in if you simply give up instead? 2) Insult to the working poor. Seeing the golden treatment given to homeless people, they may boil with resentment as they struggle with long work hours, very low pay, poor diet, hard-to-afford rent for awful rooms/apts., inability to save, and all the rest.
    1
  7. Finland is not communist. It is a high-tax free-enterprise country. A few businesses are owned by the govt.: the railways, Finnair, oil refining/gas stations, the post office. It also funds health care, not much of which is private. Hospitals are non-profit and municipally- or university-owned. The govt. is big, but the main basis of the economy is private property and free enterprise.
    1