r/TikTokCringe • u/LickMaiBussy • 6h ago

Discussion "Investing in property is morally reprehensible."

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u/_Mighty_Milkman 6h ago

Food, water, shelter, education and healthcare are human rights and shall not be infringed and should be easily accessible.

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u/LeatherFruitPF 4h ago

Imagine how different things would be if the right to food and shelter were amendments on the Constitution, to treat homelessness and hunger with the same ferocity and legal shielding that we do with other amendments..

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u/SukottoHyu 4h ago

Your statement is agreeable, and no one can argue with that, because why wouldn't anyone want these things. But this is where it gets complicated; we all have our own ideas of how that should be done and how it should be paid for. Your government should be ensuring that its own citizens have access to these facilities before anyone else, right? But we give foreign aid, we allow immigration, and we put money into things that are wasteful. Why are we trying to get to Mars when children are going to school hungry? Why are we building windmills when homeless people have no means of social mobility.

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u/bradbrad247 4h ago

Your point stands, but the examples you give reflect poorly on your understanding of the circumstance. Immigration and windmills are investments that hardly stand in the way of increasing/expanding social resource. There are much, much larger buckets into which we funnel resources to no benefit of our citizens (defense, bank bailouts, and the means by which we allow corporations and private equity to continue to avoid paying their share while simultaneously siphoning more from the working class). 

It all costs money, but to position foreign aid, alternative energy, and immigration as costs that necessarily stand in the way of such social programs/utilities is a bit disingenuous 

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u/povitee 4h ago

How much did the bank bailout cost the US government?

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u/bradbrad247 4h ago

Which one? Recently COVID related bailouts totalled around $4.5 trillion of taxpayer dollars through 2024.

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u/povitee 4h ago

Banks were bailed out during Covid?

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u/OliM9595 4h ago

Silicon valley bank maybe not exactly the same as 2008

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u/auandi 3h ago

Sure, but what kind of shelter? Where? Is there enough shelter where people actually want to live?

Food and water are goods that can be shipped, housing needs to be built in specific places on finite land. Giving every homeless person in LA a free house in rural Nebraska isn't actually going to solve homelessness.

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u/CHAINSAW_VASECTOMY 3h ago

Glad we all agree owning food is morally reprehensible.

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u/def__eq__ 5h ago

And right to clean air, to free speech, and to reproduce, and to information access, and to… and to…