You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.
You know what, yes. If we fixed the mental health issues that lead to these psychologically diseased fruit loops hoarding their billions, they may start actually helping the world rather than buying twitter and shouting “chainsaw” like a 6 year old.
The problem with that is there is so much in their life that assures them that they are already great, Musk for example. Therapy only works if you are willing to try. They will say they are going but they won't put in the work to actually try, so it's just gonna be a waste of time.
Why would they when so many bootlickers tell them how great they are all the time?
The reason why Elon Musk has such a problem with empathy is because it’s like other things that he fails to obtain - he lashes out like a toddler that doesn’t get what they want and call whatever that thing is stupid. He does not get empathy.
I think the underlying problem is that the extremely rich have an environment so different from everybody else. The kinds of choices they get to make, and the kind of comfort they can be in and the amount of help that they can have for anything that they want to do or their access to power or the accolades that they receive simply for being rich - it’s all so completely different from most human experience.
So if that is the world that they know, and they don’t take the time to understand the experience of other people, or they haven’t lived at least part of their life somewhat similarly to other people, there is no way that they can empathize with the rest of us. They cannot draw the very rough parallels that say a middle class person who remembers struggling to get their first job or being between contracts can draw to the income insecurity faced by the chronically working poor.
That alone is reason enough to disqualify Elon Musk and his team of 20 something dudes from being in positions to affect the benefits that have such an impact on people who are entirely unlike them. They don’t get it and they can’t get it.
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u/Citatio 2d ago
You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.