• WamGams@lemmy.ca
    442·
    6 months ago

    So the homeless should be exploited for illegally low wages (a form of slavery) just like we treat certain immigrants?

    If your advice to people to help them get out of homelessness is to allow themselves to enter a slave market, you are part of the problem.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      640·
      6 months ago

      I’m saying, if you’re legit willing to work, the work is there and if you’re homeless, no work should be “beneath you”.

      • WamGams@lemmy.ca
        323·
        6 months ago

        If somebody is “legit” willing to work, why are you suggesting slavery is their best option?

        That’s fucked up and you have a lot of predatory and exploitative beliefs you should unlearn.

        • Maeve@kbin.social
          71·
          6 months ago

          Thank you! Oh my God, sometimes words* escape me, I’m glad you found them.

          *Edited autocorrect, always auto-incorrect

        • jordanlund@lemmy.world
          425·
          6 months ago

          You’re setting the parameters. Homeless, no shower, dirty clothes, no background check, instant payments…

          If that’s your baseline then there’s your baseline job.

          • WamGams@lemmy.ca
            202·
            6 months ago

            If you think wage slavery is the solution to homelessness, I strongly urge you to look into sociopathy and maybe go get screened.

            • jordanlund@lemmy.world
              218·
              6 months ago

              Hey, if they don’t want to actually work, then admit that.

              I talked to a homeless dude with a “Will work for food” sign.

              “Hey, I know a guy who needs a hand, what do you need?”

              “I can’t work inside.”

              “Your lucky day, it’s pushing a wheelbarrow outside.”

              “Just give me money, man.”

              Interact with enough homeless people and you see the same grift over and over. They aren’t interested in actually working.

              • WamGams@lemmy.ca
                12·
                6 months ago

                My father used to make the same claim as well. My father was a liar though. He never once offered a job to a homeless person.

                I don’t think you have either, but regardless of that, offering to rent day labor at below market wages does nothing to solve homelessness.

                • jordanlund@lemmy.world
                  19·
                  6 months ago

                  I have, multiple times. The one time it wasn’t some bullshit story was a dude on a train offering to rap for food money.

                  Dude was probably 22 or 23 but methed out of hus fucking mind and looked 40 and like he was about to keel over.

                  “Naw, man, you don’t need to rap, I’m getting dinner at the next stop, I’ll buy you dinner.”

                  He was in TEARS.

                  We walked into the restaurant and the workers FREAKED OUT, pretty sure they had seen this guy before so told them “No, it’s cool, he’s with me.”

                  Told him he could order whatever he wanted, and he cried through the whole meal. Sat down and talked to him for a bit and we went our separate ways.

                  This was, oh, 24-25 years ago now.