Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness • Hacker News Board

Re: Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness

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Post by lotsofpulp » Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

Data_Junkie wrote: post #248

lotsofpulp wrote: post #172

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Why would society want to reward people who go to great lengths to defraud others?

Have you never seen a shitty movie ? A good advertisement ? Not as much difference as you might think. This society is built upon rewarding frauds. Homeless people with engaging stories are only punished for being poor, not for fraud.

Comparing objective truths to subjective opinions makes no sense to me.

Re: Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness

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Post by thatoneuser » Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 10:34 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #245

dabockster wrote: post #241

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>I just Googled how to get a job It’s worse than that. It reads like something a LinkedIn “influencer” who hasn’t had to actively look for a job in 30 years would write. Here’s some insights from my current job search: >Meetups I live 45 minutes away from Seattle. On a good day, it’s a 1.5 hour round trip commute. With Seattle traffic factored in, it can balloon to 3-4 hours round trip. The last two meetups I did go…

Sorry if I came of condescending, that wasn't my intention. I was trying understand the situation in case there was something I could do to help. >Remote work Not in a position to negotiate that There are many remote jobs available now. Check out https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board... for a list of boards that show remote jobs. Remote work isn't for everyone but it opens up a much wider selec…

Didn't mean to be hard on you! It's just frustrating as someone who's sought those avenues before only to fine people who want to underlay, sketchiness, people who just wanna feel the waters or even people who are trying to catfish for recruiting. It just came off as tho you had never tried to do those things before because they're so generic and rarely produce results. But thanks for that link I'll be looking through it later!

Re: Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness

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Post by thatoneuser » Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 10:37 PM UTC

dabockster wrote: post #241

thatoneuser wrote: post #196

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I'll be real, it sounds like you're giving the generic "I just Googled how to get a job" advice and in my personal experience - this kind of advice rarely accomplishes anything and leaves you more distraught than before.

>I just Googled how to get a job It’s worse than that. It reads like something a LinkedIn “influencer” who hasn’t had to actively look for a job in 30 years would write. Here’s some insights from my current job search: >Meetups I live 45 minutes away from Seattle. On a good day, it’s a 1.5 hour round trip commute. With Seattle traffic factored in, it can balloon to 3-4 hours round trip. The last two meetups I did go…

Yeah I know one person who's had success using meet-up for pretty much anything other than trivia night at a bar and even she thinks it's in the way out. It's too bad our search engines are so poor at finding quality results these days. Maybe that's part of the problem, but I don't see a next Gen search engine coming any time soon.

Re: Homeless, living in a tent and employed: The changing face of homelessness

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Post by barbecue_sauce » Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 4:14 AM UTC

crumpets wrote: post #240

barbecue_sauce wrote: post #140

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The term "concentration camp" can be applied to the US camps as well.

Not if you abide by the definition.

"a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area"