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Actually, having talked with a number of homeless folks and done outreach with our Church, a significant portion stay for the weather. Seriously, it just doesn't get too hot or too cold when you're living outside here so you're pretty much ok even if you have to just sleep in your clothes one night. I talked to a guy who had walked here from Utah spending time across the northern Nevada and some in Central California…
Suggestions on how we could pull that off are welcome. That's the problem, isn't it? Is such a thing even accomplishable? We're teetering on an edge. We don't know if we are creating a future of clean and shiny and modern technology for everybody or if we're creating a dirty and scarred and run down begging-for-please-schedule-me-doctor services for non-millionares in society. More technological improvements are need…
In one future the world is ruled by corporations, public services such as internet, medical care, and transportation are provided by them as long as you follow their rules.
In one future the governments seize corporate earnings through taxation to fund basic services resulting in a incestuous and tense symbiotic relationship between companies and governments.
Depending on which side of the bed I wake up on I think one is more likely than the other.