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Re: Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

ArchieScrivener wrote: post #7

Are people reading this or just up voting the title? Sounds like someone who screwed up their life, likely by being stubborn, and doing a lot of drugs, which doesn't take knowing how to code to pull off. Reads like a love letter to misery by someone who knew they would never be truly affected by it.

There's a good saying, "People become homeless not when they run out of money, but when they run out of relationships."

This post reads to me like someone suffering from mental illness and/or personality disorder.

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Post by [deleted] »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #11
tossandthrow wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He explicitly writes that he did not do drugs or alcohol. It would seem like it is some kind of felony charges that are the cause. Whatever they were. But all in all - the downside risk is huge in the US.

The style of writing and strange segways suggest mental illness; the blog description seems to confirm it.

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Re: Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

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Post by johnnyanmac »

imiric wrote: post #13

I will never stop being dumbfounded by the contrast of people going through this kind of hardship being surrounded by some of the wealthiest people in the world. This exists in other parts of the world as well, of course, but it's particularly troubling that it exists in the tech epicenter. There's something deeply disturbing about a society that allows this to happen, and yet it's something we've learned to accept a…

>“I Can Hire Half the Working Class To Fight the Other Half“

Technically a satire quote criticizing the robber Baron it's credited for, but the sentiment is the same. Pay off a bourgeois and they'll fight against the the sympathetic bourgeois and proletariat happily. The elite don't even need to lift a finger.

Re: Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

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Post by Abimelex »

What I probably never get: When somebody is capable and reasonable but jobless, why stay homeless in a city with one of the highest rents? Why not move to a cheaper place, get any job, even a bad paid job will pay a nice flat in a small town. It's always those large very expensive cities that have a huge amount of homelessness.

Don't get me wrong, I do not want to play clever here, it's just a honest question.

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Post by pierrekin »

karlgkk wrote: post #17
imiric wrote: post #13

I will never stop being dumbfounded by the contrast of people going through this kind of hardship being surrounded by some of the wealthiest people in the world. This exists in other parts of the world as well, of course, but it's particularly troubling that it exists in the tech epicenter. There's something deeply disturbing about a society that allows this to happen, and yet it's something we've learned to accept a…

If you needed a bed for the night, do you have friends who would offer you their couch? Family? Cousins, parents, etc?

In my society, absolutely, possibly literally more than a hundred people.

Where in the world is the answer no? Maybe if you’ve freshly immigrated to a new country or something?

That is a very scary thought, but it’s also scary for me to think that so many people live such isolated lives, it’s such a foreign concept to me culturally.

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Post by NinjaTrance »

I'm not sure if this is real account or AI slop -- possibly a mix of both.

But the US is a f*cking dystopia at this point.

How come the richest country of the world - the model of capitalism - allows so many of their citizens go homeless?

It's mindblowing.

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Post by pierrekin »

Abimelex wrote: post #25

What I probably never get: When somebody is capable and reasonable but jobless, why stay homeless in a city with one of the highest rents? Why not move to a cheaper place, get any job, even a bad paid job will pay a nice flat in a small town. It's always those large very expensive cities that have a huge amount of homelessness. Don't get me wrong, I do not want to play clever here, it's just a honest question.

I think the harsh truth in this case is that this person has qualities of their personality and their habits that make them incompatible with a conventional job.

Re: Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

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Post by rippeltippel »

> The morning crew felt like NPCs (for those older folks, an NPC is a character in a video game that is scripted or run by AI).

For those older folks, an NPC is a character in an adventure that is scripted or run by the Dungeon Master.

Re: Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF

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Post by lasre »

ddtaylor wrote: post #10

Not a worse place to be homeless, except maybe Portland or Seattle. Obviously more to this story when someones support network has collapsed to this degree, but at the same time people don't have great support networks anymore =/

Could always be worse in Des Moines or Toronto
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