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minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 days agoBecause none of that is profitable. The correct answer is unfortunately usually the simplest one.
minus-squareCruxifux@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI mean maybe but I don’t really understand how building special benches to punish homeless people is profitable either.
minus-squareDoc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoTwo words “property values” Homeless people existing in an area is bad for real estate. Thus, homeless people are a threat to their speculative property values. It is actually profitable to do so, just not directly profitable. Capitalism is a truly insidious system. The interests of the owning class are diametrically oppositional to those of the proletariat.
Because none of that is profitable. The correct answer is unfortunately usually the simplest one.
I mean maybe but I don’t really understand how building special benches to punish homeless people is profitable either.
Two words “property values”
Homeless people existing in an area is bad for real estate. Thus, homeless people are a threat to their speculative property values.
It is actually profitable to do so, just not directly profitable.
Capitalism is a truly insidious system. The interests of the owning class are diametrically oppositional to those of the proletariat.