>>45579730Most middle-class Americans don't really have the capacity to help homeless people in a real meaningful way. Sure it's not too hard to give a spare buck or two, or buy some basic groceries for the people that hang near grocery stores (and yes most people won't even do that). But to pull even a single person out of the cycle of homelessness could take months of consistent emotional/financial support. That's quite a bit to ask of someone exhausted from a 40 hr week at their fast-food/retail job making $11 an hour. I don't mean to imply that virtue signalers don't exist, or that these edits reflect any positive morality of my own. I'd just like to point out that there are people with the power to affect real change on the poverty crisis in America, and it's not the people forced to exhaust themselves to just barely survive. It's the landlords, the banks, the senators, etc, that insist it has to be this way.
