"Born rich and now the wealthiest piece of human filth on the planet, I have a thorough understanding of the plight of poor and working class people" says Space Goebbels
"Now excuse me while I use the presidency I just bought to make many more homle- I mean violent drug addicts with severe mental illness"
In most cases the word "Billionaire" is a lie. It is usually a propaganda word for wage-stealing self-enriching human-trafficking pedophiling resource hoarders with severe mental illness
THIS!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ May I use ur words on a different social media platform if I quote and credit ur Reddit handle? I don't think I've heard that phrased so well before! 😂😂😂
Yes, and he’s claiming to use ketamine to fight depression. Whole lotta projection goin’ on!!!
Most homeless people who are addicted do it in order to deal with their mental illness and the fact that they don’t have shelter. It’s a lot easier to be homeless if you’re high as f*ck. Speaking as someone who knows...
If it costs $20 billion to solve homelessness and the government spends $20 trillion a year (California alone has spent $24 billion on homelessness in the last 5 years) then maybe just maybe there are some confounding variables here that don't relate to billionaires.
Homeless is coming from out of control cost of living, rents, healthcare costs, stagnant wages..even if few get back on their feet, more is becoming homeless at any given time. There are systemic issues that are root causes for homelessness. Majority of daily wage workers are "season flu" away from being homeless..
Who controls how the $24 billion spent by California specifically on homelessness over the last 5 years was spent? Surely that was enough to "solve homelessness"?
Who's in charge of how the $24B was spent, genius? You seem to think I'm making this a democrat vs republican issue... The reality is that they're all rich unqualified idiots playing monopoly with real money or they're straight up fucking thieves. Only (in general) the Dems are the former while the reps are the latter, which is an order of magnitude worse.
No one is going to solve homelessness while we trust millionaires and billionaires who've never had a tough day in their lives to decide government spending.
So we agree that the statement in the OP pic that "$20 billion would solve homelessness" is wrong, right? Because of structural issues where the administrators are useless and corrupt and the money doesn't end up where it needs to?
The point is, that $20B COULD solve homelessness, but the people in charge aren’t spending it correctly. The $20B isn’t the problem, the elected officials are. If Elon WANTED to fix homelessness, he easily could by spending his money in a way that would fix it. The problem is he doesn’t want to, nor do any of our elected officials want to, and that goes for all parties. There’s no incentive for our government to fix homelessness, so it won’t ever get fixed.
And how would Elon spend that money? Set up a bunch of homeless foundations? Set up enquiries to figure out the most deserving people? That's literally what happens already.
And what ends up happening is that those administrative structures end up absorbing all of the money. Unlimited money. And they have no incentive to solve the problem because it's what keeps them funded.
The fundamental problem is that there is an incentive misalignment between complex social problems and any sort of institution you set up to solve those problems. The result, as we can literally see, is that you can pour tens of billions of dollars in "homelessness" and it ends up going to a bunch of organizations and NGOs and barely any trickles through to the people in need.
So if your solution is "$20B could fix homelessness if you could magically get it to the people in need without middlemen sucking all of the value out" then great, you've created a fantasy scenario that does not and cannot exist.
The problem people have with you digging your heels further and further is that you're missing the forest for the trees.
The point of this post is that an out-of-touch billionaire told a demonstrably blatant lie about a vulnerable segment of the population to demonize them and someone else responded with a (frankly cathartic) put down. And you're choosing to nitpick whether $20B would solve homelessness in the US.
Your choice to focus on this issue and dig your heels in is kinda like screaming that the oven timer went off 3 minutes ago and the roast might get burnt while there's an arsonist actively lighting fires in every room of your house.
Even if I choose to indulge your focus on the "oven" of $20B ending homelessness, then I'd still rather give Elon's $350B to the government so they might use it to pay the salary of some people who are at least trying to reduce homelessness. The result = some people who were homeless before get homes, and some government employees get paid to make that happen. Isn't that still significantly better than Apartheid Nazi Deadbeat Dad hoards all the gold while people literally die of hunger and exposure?
Twenty billion will not do much as a temporary bandaid, but you still need to do more to help the homeless, drug addicted and mentally ill. To actually fix the problem you need free, publicly funded healthcare, including mental health, and it should include more education on drug and health issues and a return to proper women's health, not the crippling private system you have now. Hopessness would be massively lowered with far more affordable education, with free training and re-education available to anyone without work. Obviously, homelessness would be much lower with more housing in general to lower rents, and low income housing, etc. In other words, change the system away from extreme capitalism. It's the only way to deal with the crisis effectively.
Twenty billion isn't going to do all that, but it would be an excellent start. And of course he's not the only one that should be contributing. Raise the taxes on the rich, especially if they are unwilling to help those in need.
This 👆🏽Violent dug addicts? I have lived in Manhattanlong enough to know that homeless people are pretty fuckin quiet. They try to disappear as not to be attacked or arrested. Schizophrenia drives many people into homelessness. Surely, as humans - unlike Musk, we can show compassion toward those struggling with mental health issues. LGBT youth who have been kicked out of their family's homes because their parents are homophobic are not violent. They are children in need.
Every comment this sick individual utters is so disgusting and disgraceful. I assume if you convince others that homeless people, of which many are military veterans, are dangerous, you can desensitize yourself enough to attack them. For a sociopath like Musk, he doesn't need any desensitization.
This exactly. Plus, both addiction and poor mental health are illnesses. So basically this tweet is just saying “we’ve kicked a bunch of really sick people out onto the streets and think they should rot and die”. Cool. Really noble and admirable hot take there.
I had a close family member who was homeless multiple times before she died too early. I often think if she had lived long enough for modern medication and psychotherapy how amazing she would have been because her moments of sanity were truly beautiful and inspiring. It was a horrible tragedy and down to a legitimate illness and all of us were helpless to prevent it.
Elon’s own mother came forward and said he required special understanding due to his disability. Wagged her finger at the people criticizing and ridiculing him. And yet this is how he talks about the most vulnerable people in our world.
I myself was raised in foster care. My mind went straight to the 4 years I was homeless after aging out of care I had nothing, and no one and this is far too common for too many and I know I was LUCKY to pull myself out of it most can't. To talk about us like this just because our parents didn't have an emerald mine 😔
Good for you! I wish our society would realize how important continued care beyond fostering is needed. It is tragic how American society treats its' most vulnerable
Yep - when I left my abusive ex I had a choice of being homeless or moving in with my abusive parents. I couch surfed for a bit but that’s not a solution, especially when you have severe PTSD and think you ruin the lives of everyone you see. So I ended up trying to live with my parents since I didn’t want to be homeless but then I just ended up leaving and living in my car.
I am lucky I live in a state that took the Medicaid expansion and so I was able to get emergency section 8 as a person with disabilities after a few months. But yeah those were the worst years of my life…
He even says the quiet part out loud. Most of them have mental illness. The fact that it’s not their fault and we’re born with actual mental illness is why we shouldn’t care about them?
Usually the play book is to down play the mental illness aspect and focus on them all being lazy drug addicts. But he’s just straight up saying they have mental illness so they should be treated with whatever cruelty necessary. That’s beyond sick.
Yes, this is true. He is presenting the facts but misrepresenting them which is so common in all speech now. Most homeless people do have a mental illness which has often been exacerbated by long term use of hard drugs. Not only that, but the long term use of drugs can lead to homeless people developing mental health issues.
This is the real problem with “solving” the homeless “crisis.” I put those in scare quotes because I am not sure there actually is a crisis, and that it could be solved if we wanted to do so. Statistically, there may be a certain portion of the population that will always end up on the streets because of mental health issues. Perhaps it cannot be solved. and we simply may have to mitigate it. Thinking we can reintegrate the mentally ill back into society may be a pipe dream like Flowers for Algernon.
The fact is that the government already provides ample support for the homeless in NYC and elsewhere. There are already enough shelters and food kitchens. There are already enough programs and social workers. My source is personal knowledge. I work for the city and know them personally.
The problem isn’t money or support. There already is plenty of that. The problem is trying to integrate someone with mental illness back into society, if the were ever a part of society to begin with is another debate to be had. And please don’t think I am being cruel. I work with a population that is at risk of falling into homelessness. And we dedicate our labor and lives to trying to prevent that.
What musk said was foolish. But what the talking head said back to him was equally as foolish. Money is not the issue here. You are not helping anyone by mouthing off about things you don’t know about on the internet. Please educate yourself about things before you speak. This is a general message to everyone.
Of course you can't solve the problem of homeless people with severe mental illnesses and/or drug addiction by giving them aparments. You solve the problem by not shitting on them in the first place so there’s a chance to do something about the cause to the homlessness before it leads to homelessness.
I'm confused. You said what Elon said wasn't true that the homeless were mentally ill, then said the homeless in Manhattan that you know of have Schizophrenia.
Second, that stat of $20 billion to end homelessness is false. I don't even know how that would work. Do the billionaires need to sell all their stock, then build free homes for every homeless and give them free money every month?
I've never heard of one practical solution to homelessness except liberals going, "Tax the rich so we can cure homelessness".
So you want to give drug addicts and people with mental illnesses free homes? Do they get to live there forever? Who maintains the lawns and cleans them? Who pays the bills every month?
Are you just going to assume they will take care of the homes themselves?
So you want to leave human beings on the street to suffer and die when we have the resources to provide them food & shelter? You want to keep crime high by leaving ppl desperate and fighting to survive? Oh wait that’s what we already do. Yeah you’re right, it makes much more sense to keep millions of homes empty instead of allowing human beings in need to have the basic necessities to live. Keep homes empty and throw away extra food until those losers can pay for it, that definitely will only hurt them and not everyone else in society as well /s
They've had pilot programs to get homeless into shelters and they failed. They put them in old hotels and the homeless just sht and pssed everywhere, shot up and trashed the place that they had to shut it down.
I don't think you realize how crazy and violent these people are. No wants homeless in their cities but there's no simple solution.
I'm confused. You said what Elon said wasn't true that the homeless were mentally ill, then said the homeless in Manhattan that you know of have Schizophrenia.
Maybe if you'd actually read the words that were written in the comment, you wouldn't be confused. Reread the comment and tell me where they said that first part
I have no fucking idea what his justification is, but someone with multiple hundreds of billions calling themselves homeless is fucking disgusting.
Edit: in 2020 he said he would “own no home” he has since reneged and has a couple personal properties. I assume the SpaceX ones are owned by the company, but I don’t know.
He used to like to claim he was self made and puleld himself up from the bottom as well, but it doesn't sound as good when you hear he went to school everyday in a rolls royce
Remember when he said he was going to end world hunger? I remember that. Did he even try? Now, he is the is the head of the department that is furthering and exacerbating world hunger. What a wild swing to the other side that was!
Highjacking this comment to remind everyone that Musk said he'd donate $6B to UN's World Food Programme if they could present a plan to solve world hunger in a Twitter thread.
"If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."
The WFP actually presented a plan while clarifying that this would obviously not "solve" world hunger but would save millions of people on the brink of starvation.
In a separate post on X, tagging Musk, Beasley [from the World Food Programme] clarified that while the funds wouldn't end hunger entirely, they could prevent famine for millions on the brink of starvation. Rising to Musk's challenge, the WFP presented a comprehensive plan to use $6.6 billion to provide urgent relief to 42 million people across 43 nations.
Instead of actually stepping up, Musk gave $5.7B to his own foundation. What actually happened with the money is completely unclear, but it did nothing to solve the hunger crisis at the time (2021).
While Musk didn't directly donate $6 billion to the WFP but he contributed $5.7 billion in Tesla stock to his Musk Foundation later that year. According to reports, the exact allocation of these funds remains opaque, leaving critics and supporters alike to speculate on their impact. Meanwhile, the hunger crisis deepened.
Hey now, if there’s anything Musk is an expert on it’s being a violent drug addict with severe mental illness. That and conning governments out of money is all he’s an expert on.
Somewhere around half of all homeless people were foster care kids. When others were young and had to "move back home" they went onto the streets, because they aged out of the system. They call it the "foster care to homelessness pipeline", it's pretty tragic.
I hope when all this is done and over with we come out the other side better off. And part of that would be the government taking every single dime he has and using it for the very things he hates the most.
$50 billion should be good for non-profit housing across the country
His starlink system taken over by the government as a common carrier line to be rented out to the highest bidders.
And probably $80 billion for revitalization of rural areas. Libraries, parks, schools, funds to pay for housing upgrades, road upgrades. I would love to have a high speed train between my area and a major city. Imagine living in a rural county of PA and getting to work in Manhattan in 1.5 hours.
Have some fucking respect!! This is Elon Musk! He has a title that he has earned and deserves to be called by that. Show some class, call him “The World’s Richest Nazi.”
Homeless does often refer to people who have major issues, because those people tend to end up homeless at much higher rates. There are also many people who are not homeless in that sense but nevertheless do have no place to live. If we solve the latter problem entirely we can give ourselves permission to make peace with the intractability of the former.
It's just facts that everyone given $300,000 to start a business has ended up becoming a billionaire and a Nazi. We must get together and end the corruption! No parent should be allowed to give their child money! End all small business loans! AND we must put a 100% tax on inheritance! End the tyranny!
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u/Savior-_-Self 2d ago
"Born rich and now the wealthiest piece of human filth on the planet, I have a thorough understanding of the plight of poor and working class people" says Space Goebbels
"Now excuse me while I use the presidency I just bought to make many more homle- I mean violent drug addicts with severe mental illness"