Topic: Becoming the homeless and poor it's new Normal now days - page 6. (Read 1568 times)

For me I feel bad when I see homeless people. It is so sad to see how many people are out on the street struggling just to even get a meal. I try to help the homeless when I am able and truly feel the need to give.
I know it may not be much but when a stranger says thank you it makes me feel good inside that they appreciate the little help you give them. Growing up I also didn’t have much but I was always taught to give to the needy because it is the right thing to do.
Homeless struggle just trying to survive and figure out a way to get a meal. It is normal to see someone living like this and sad.

While this is common, I don't think this is the rule. It's just that we are often surrounded by the wrong people. If only we find the right company, money isn't the thing that matters the most. If you have the money and you're with people who also have the money and spending is the one thing that makes the group cohesive, it's indeed difficult to keep their company if you don't have the money anymore. That's unfair but logical. Me, sometimes I have money, sometimes I don't. Not a problem at all. The people I hang out with don't have money all the time as well.

n any country, homelessness always exists, whether in developed, developing or poor countries. Because basically until now no country has been truly able to develop its society as a whole so that no one becomes homeless. That's why homeless people always exist in any country. Plus your assumption is correct, anyone can become homeless. But actually this assumption will only apply to people who lack motivation. Because I believe the majority of homeless people today do not have much motivation to change their lives for the better. Because everyone can change their life circumstances as long as they have great intention and motivation to go through the process.

Apart from that, the problems that cause many people to become homeless today are definitely caused by a lack of employment opportunities, low quality of education, high prices of basic commodities, high house prices and house rentals. For this reason, in order to avoid becoming homeless, we must be able to solve this problem early on. The point is that it starts with education, from childhood everyone must be really serious about learning everything that can really be useful for them in the future. The educational context I mean here is not just school, but education that can be learned from anywhere as long as it is positive. After that, from a young age, in my opinion, you must have a good plan to create a brighter future. For people who become homeless, it is clear that they do not have any plans for the future. They only think about how they can eat today.

So in my opinion, this is what can be done to avoid homelessness, especially for young people. Because as far as I know, up to now in several large countries there are many children who are still young but have become homeless.

If you look closely, the reality of what is happening now is like that. But we have to remember friend, not everyone has a bad view of poor or homeless people. I'm sure there are still many people who have good hearts today. Plus, I personally think thieves are definitely worse than homeless people who don't steal. Because after all crime has a lower degree than poverty. So I think a poor or homeless person is better than someone who commits a crime.

You might not be far from the truth, though the society today is full of discrimination, intimidation and oppression. A society where if you don't have connections you are a no body and if you equally don't have money no body will regard you. It's has been like that for a long time now and not a new things. It has been said that "money makes the world Go round" but that will not give a chance of seeing crime as the next option or alternative. because that will be the worst case scenario. Though many people might be doing it and getting away with it, but doesn't mean they are Smarter than others. It is said that "everyday is for the thief and one day is for the owner of the house" so you don't know that day. Let us not use the sake of unforseen circumstances to see the bad people in the society as they are living well cause it might mislead us to follow the wrong part. The best thing to do is to be productive by leaning a skill that will be generating a passive income while pushing hard for a greater opportunity ahead. The society or life doesn't give you what you want but place you where you belong base on your efforts or hard work. It's just like saying "I want to be a doctor" and you don't make preparations for it or didn't meet the demand of being a doctor, definitely you will not because you didn't work it out and the it becomes a wish. That's why they said "dream without fulfilment becomes wishes".

It's easy to say because you're not in their position. How many people graduate with a bachelor's degree with advanced skills? but most of them end up unemployed, so this is not about the individual problem anymore, but how the government as the responsible party only thinks about how they can get more taxes from citizens but does not provide real solutions to society, so that causes an explosion of unemployment today, and this could lead to higher levels of homelessness as a result of those no longer being able to pay their rent because they no longer have jobs or income. If only the government was able to provide comprehensive and targeted solutions to citizens and was able to collaborate with the private sector, this problem could be resolved/at least reduced from what it is now.

If someone does hard work and can't get the results they do of course this will be very detrimental to them and also waste their time on what they do and I think it would be better if we could look for work that can provide income according to the abilities we have because if we continue to stay in a job that has a low salary even though the abilities we have will be able to get a higher salary than the place where we work, then we must be able to try to look for opportunities in other places so we can get an appropriate income. with the abilities we have, because if we choose to give up in pursuing the dreams we have of course this will make us never dare to try new things and also this will make us never be better than before.

You are right. Skill is very important, and skills can make someone continue their life even after losing a job. With skills, you won’t wait for any other person before you can provide for yourself; all you need is to know what you are doing. That’s why, even during the pandemic, many people who lost their jobs but had skills still continued living their normal lives, even though many things were affected and life had not been like before for them. They still managed to survive with the little they earned. 
 
However, skills are not like government work where you will be earning weekly; it is something you will do and get paid as soon as possible. That is why people with skills always get things done before some salary earners; they don’t wait for anybody else to make things possible for themselves, which is a very good thing to do, and that is why even with a government job, someone should get another side hustle done so that their financial status will be balanced and they can also achieve many things in life.

Yes, this is whats happening or simply the reality of this life on which we are all trapped into that cycle on which we would really be needing to work hard for us to survive. Despite on having
our own wishes and goals but due to lack of opportunity or simply doesnt have the time nor having that capital or any chances that we could make our lives better werent present then
we would really be simply sticking into the  things on what we are currently dealing on, which we would really be staying poor for the rest of our lives. Somehow, there would really be people who
would really be trying out their best on getting outside of such condition and this is why they would really be thriving out to do something which they do seem that could improve their way of living.

Being poor is normal? there would be several factors on why a certain people would really be on such state but its not actually that a solid reason for you not to make up something
for you to be able to make your life way more better. It would really be just that depending on you because not all would really be that the same mindset
when it comes into these kind of conditions.

Decades ago a person could hope to do well by just being willing to work hard and do things the right way, but now such an advice is not only no longer a formula for success, now it is a formula for disaster, as what is the point of working hard when in many cases you have to do it without medical insurance, you are not paid overtime and you have to work for less, otherwise you risk being replaced by a multitude of people willing to do your job for those wages, so people are in a way trapped on the red queen’s race, in which they have to run as fast as they can just to remain on the same place, so many people are giving up any dreams of increasing the quality of their life.

There is only a tiny portion of the population in most developed countries that is homeless, so it is definitely far from "normal". Once again you fail to back up your dribbling nonsense with any actual statistics, just a certain frame of mind that you impose on to the world. In many developed countries, like the US / UK / Europe then you will find that the unemployment rate is close to record lows, which indicates that society is doing quite well and can keep people in a job - when you have a job you tend to be able to do things like cover rent. There will always be people in this world without money, just like there will be people who acquire it and waste it on rubbish, you can only hope to support them through a reasonable social safety net.

Just the harsh truth about the society. Different norms are evident which creates marginalization. But I agree to aide thing through hardwork; reality is the world won't adjust to us, it is us who will adjust to our world or environment. Best thing is to continue regardless of these challenges 'coz there will always be an opportunity to all of us to make our own "life changing" events. If it is job which is the problem try jumping to other fields wherein appearance and other  struggles won't be that much of q factor. Just roam and test waters. At the end of the day, we need to cope up with these challenges in order to survive.
Money will always be associated with power 'coz that's just how things are going to everyone.. The thing that we should learn from this is to take care of the steps and pathways we would be choosing; take care of your health, save, and always make sure to scale your skillset to not be  stepped upon by the society.

Global economic downturn since the COVID-19 pandamic, this have affected countries in different ways depending on the countries economic policy to meet up with current global financial crises, and the worst hit countries are those that have poor leadership which have brought in alot of corruption where the government careless about the people welfare but after their own private gains, laundering money that belong to the masses and with zero production output, my country is one of those countries that are suffering from this, and the rate of poverty in this side of the world is high, many people who use to do well economically before are now lacking behind to meet they basic needs, this have forced many to leave below the poverty level, many have become homeless since the crisis began, and not because their is war but just high inflation making the basic need out of reach for the ordinary person on the street, this have affected a large percentage of the population.
One thing I am sure of is that, those people that are homeless, are not happy about the situation but events that way beyond their power have forced them to arrive at that position of not having a place to call a home, the question right now is that, how long will this continue?
And if you have noticed, since the inflation began in most countries, it rate have not come down since then, this can be seen as reflected in the price of basic goods in the market, if you buy an item for a certain price today, by the time you go back next week for the same item, you will fine out that the price have done almost x2 which is an indication of raising inflation without any possibility to retreat back to normal in any time soon.

This is what just got my interest among every thing that has been said. Especially as a man, if you do not have money, you will not be taken seriously by almost everyone. You will loose respect in the eyes of your family, and the society, and your opinion will not be respected. This is why it is imperative to make good financial decisions like investing in crypto from the little that you have, or having other kinds of key investments.

Unless someone has been put behind bars, nobody really cares how you make your money most times. You can be a criminal and be celebrated for it because you have money and you are successful in it. This is just how our society has turned into.

From what you said, I can already imagine that a robot that has had technology embedded in it to be able to do all the work that can be done by humans, will definitely still not be able to repair itself when it is damaged, so there must be human involvement in it. But on the one hand, I also can't imagine how the latest technological developments in the future will lead to more competition and also unemployment for those who do not upgrade their own skills. Because I am sure that the workforce that is usually paid by the company for several jobs will be immediately reduced by the presence of current technology so that it can trigger the company to become richer because it does not have to spend excessive amounts of money on each of its workers.

The cost of living has risen dramatically, I don’t know what the answer is if you are struggling. I guess just work hard, ask for a pay rise maybe, even take up a second job. If you work hard & are fully committed, the chances are you will strike lucky at some point & you can turn your life around. It’s tough but people who try their best & leave no stone unturned tend to be OK eventually.

People who live in first world countries should be grateful, you don't need to be an engineer, because you can work even as a dishwasher, waiter, or any other low paying jobs in your country, but if you work for 2-3 jobs, you can still save.

You might not able to get rich or get married with the girl you really interested, but you can have a family and having fun with girls in third world countries e.g. South East Asian.

"Poor" in first world countries still able to afford rent and have a car, while "poor" in third world countries, you can only rent a suburban house and can't afford to own a car.

I think it's always been like that, it just became more apparent with the increase of people who are, well, considered homeless now. Still, I think there's at least some minimum thing they can do to avoid it? I'm no expert at it but I expect homeless people who have families at least can stay with them at least until they get it together.

I'd say yea, minimum wage jobs can't lift you up from poverty or help you achieve what you want but it can at the very least help you start living your life. Rather unfortunate that it stays at that though tbh. This is considering there's at least some semblance of a proper human being in them. Addicts and the like are probably a lost cause with just a couple few being redeemable.

You didn't really state anything new op. This is how the world has always been and will most probably never change unless the entire world is reset or something which is completely unrealistic as of now.

The rich will keep getting richer while the poor will keep getting poorer as the global population keeps ballooning over time. Survival of the fittest basically.

Being on that threshold to average middle earner is expensive nowadays. Before, in a family, only the father needs to work and everyone survives. Nowadays, everyone from the family need to work to live a comfortable life. 

Everyone has got a chance but don't count all of those that are in that situation wasn't given a chance. The chance is there but the initiative should be from them. I know a helping hand is needed but many just chose to be in that situation and never want to arise and get back to their former living. And that's due to their economic situation where things have gotten more expensive and they just live off as if they are in the wilderness trying to survive, eat and sleep and that's it.

that's just how the world works, it's expensive being poor and the poor have lesser opportunity.
would be great if things isn't all like that and the poor can be given second chance to try again but apparently that's just an empty dream.

for anyone that still has stable life I think it's also good to try looking for side hustle just to secure yourself financially, since the key of wealth accumulation is higher income and not saving where it just gonna get devoured by the inflation.
things will get worse with the introduction of AI to replace labour.