Balancing out that little gripe with something more material:
My heart aches at news like this piece about surging UK homelessness. What have we wrought, with all our wealth and opportunity as a collective?
Or more to the point, what have all the abiding lies of cultural superiority and triumph kept us from being *able* to build, in the way of communities that actually serve to uplift their members and more of the world?
#Economics #Humanism #UK #News
https://www.ft.com/content/24117a03-37c2-424a-97ed-6a5292f9e92e
A couple key graphs from that article, to spare folks the clickthrough if they don't have time for it:
Absolutely. The UK has overwhelming levels of housing insecurity, whereas many other wealthy first-world countries have more people exposed to the elements. Both critical issues, but with very different local strategies required for effective intervention and reform.
UK homelessness is astounding. It’s a wonder the Tories have retained power with these stats.
@MLClark we have more sleeping on the street tho.