• @Fal
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    1191 year ago

    You’re not using your bed right now. Are you letting a homeless person sleep in it?

    • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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      321 year ago

      That’s not a contradiction. Your, my, and everyone’s bed is for sleeping in. The beds in that store are for accumulation of wealth. This displays the harsh efficiencies of capitalism, because the people in the most need for a bed cannot afford to have one.

      • @dwalin@lemmy.world
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        1241 year ago

        I belive the beds in a store that sells beds are either to be sold or to help you choose a bed. They are not “fuck you, see how many beds i have” beds

          • dream_weasel
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            101 year ago

            For probably still more money than street sleeping homeless guy can afford of we are being honest.

            • Echo Dot
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              21 year ago

              Right but equally it’s not the mattress company’s job to accommodate the homeless person. It’s not like they didn’t have to pay an inflated price from the manufacturer so if they sold it for the price of the materials they’d probably make a loss.

              • dream_weasel
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                91 year ago

                No of course not. I’m not saying that the homeless guy should be in the store, I’m saying it’s out of his reach even for the floor model.

          • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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            31 year ago

            100%. I have yet to see somewhere that sells display furniture/appliances at full price, usually they knock some off due to shop guests messing around with it, wear and tear

            • @0ops@lemm.ee
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              81 year ago

              I mean I don’t even wanna know how often the average person changes their sheets, let alone their mattress. My parents have mattresses in spare bedrooms older than me.

              Honestly though, display beds aren’t as scary to me as hotel beds

              • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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                -41 year ago

                SPARE BEDROOMS?!! By this you mean they have beds to spare and yet are not allowing unhoused individuals to sleep in them?? How very dare they. Guest rooms should be illegal. Everyone with a bedroom to spare gets a mini homeless shelter in their house.

                • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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                  91 year ago

                  I mean… that is what early Christians would do. They were radically giving and selfless. They would unironically feed and shelter the homeless.

                  It was as shocking then as it is now.

          • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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            61 year ago

            That’s what everything everywhere is. Many folks in communist countries lack things others have too.

            Only in a hypothetical utopia could all persons have all things equally.

            • Echo Dot
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              -21 year ago

              Especially because unless you’ve solved the limited resources problem, then even in a utopia you’re still going to have to have something like money, and therefore you will still have things that some people have that other people don’t have.

                • Flying Squid
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                  21 year ago

                  Define ‘limited.’ Because limits include trained manpower, right? There’s only a certain amount of that. Our ability to provide certain drugs for everyone who might need them are limited by the number of people trained to make them. This is true of virtually any industry. It is as limited as the number of people who can make it usable. And that is usually not an ‘anyone can do this’ issue.

                  • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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                    11 year ago

                    Labor of any stripe is abundant. In an economy that doesn’t prioritize profit, people would be able to pursue specialized jobs that they want to contribute towards. For example, after the modernization of the USSR, they had the most doctors of any country in the world and healthcare was made accessible for millions of people. Our growth as a society is limited by the amount of cooperative labor we have available, but it’s not a limited resource.

                    In contrast, capitalism is reliant on a reserve pool of labor to keep wages down. If someone remains in the reserves for too long, they become homeless because every aspect of life has been commodified.

            • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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              Which things? Because all historical sources show that the bottom 10% had all the bare necessities for life. They didn’t have luxury apartments, but they had a roof. They weren’t eating steak every night, but they had more caloric input and healthier diets than US citizens.

      • bioemerl
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        191 year ago

        The beds in that store are for accumulation of wealth

        …selling people beds so they have beds to sleep in. Beds that aren’t riddled with bugs thanks to the store not being a homeless shelter.

          • bioemerl
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            -11 year ago

            Best method we have found so far. If you want cookie cutter efficient ass state made beds you can move off to the… Well, every state who has tried has collapsed so you’re shit out of luck.

            • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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              -11 year ago

              You mean like the still-existing and highly complex gift economies of natives all across the globe that have no homelessness?

                • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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                  -21 year ago
                  • the indigenous economies that I identify with and would be interested in participating in were destroyed by the British 1000 years before I was born.
                  • I’d rather not be a colonizer in an indigenous economy.
                  • bioemerl
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                    31 year ago

                    destroyed by the British 1000 years before I was born

                    You acted like they still existed. In that case my original point still applies.

                    Those gift economies don’t work at scale and you would probably have a significantly worse quality of life if you were born to one.

              • Flying Squid
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                01 year ago

                You mean people who sleep on mats on a dirt floor? Sure. Some of us want to lessen our back pain. You do you.

                • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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                  -11 year ago

                  Come on now, indigenous people exist in the 21st century and have modern amenities. They just also keep their indigenous economies.

      • @workerONE@lemmy.world
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        171 year ago

        So beds in the store are for accumulation of wealth but then when someone buys them they’re for sleeping in? Deep

      • Who are the people in most need for a bed? Isn’t that need relatively equal? I mean, I guess when I was younger I didn’t really need one, but now I’m a wreck without one. I know some guys with copd that only sleep in chairs, so maybe their need is on low end.

        • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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          91 year ago

          The people without beds, followed by the people that need to replace their beds, followed by people that want to receive a bed for any other reason.

          • @psud@aussie.zone
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            1 year ago

            Just because I have a bed doesn’t mean I don’t need one. If I didn’t need it I wouldn’t keep it

            I’m not wanting for beds. But am in need.

      • Echo Dot
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        -51 year ago

        I do understand the sentiment but the thing is a lot of homelessness isn’t because people don’t have money not exactly. They may have support systems that they can make use of but if they have other problems they may not be inclined to use those support systems.

        You can’t just blame capitalism for homelessness, not exclusively.

        • @31337@sh.itjust.works
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          51 year ago

          You kinda can. Capitalism provides no incentive to help this man (actually, it provides a disincentive because the time and/or money needed to help this man could be spent on more profitable endeavors). The support structures that may exist are not capitalistic, are disincentived, and obviously not adequate.

        • livus
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          41 year ago

          Personally I blame it for the bulk of it in my country. We have a massive housing crisis caused by housing unafordability.

          The middle class here mainly invest in rentals (not stockmarket) and then use them as AirBnBs that sit empty half the time.

          Meanwhile whole families are living in garages or worse, cars. People who are sane and ordinary and work are living in substandard shitholes.

          • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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            So… you think they should just- give beds away? Thats hilarious!

            Look kid, capitalism sucks. No one with a functioning brain is going to argue against this point. But going full bore extreme to the opposite side is just a fucking stupid.

            You’ll understand this when you grow up

            • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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              Infantilize me all you want, that doesn’t change the fact that I’m college educated and in my late 20s. Explain to me why we can’t distribute beds to people based on need. If we can, then please explain why we have to have homeless people.

              • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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                -51 year ago

                Because beds won’t fix their problem. How do I know this? Because almost every state in the country has beds available for them. They don’t want them. Because with those beds come rules. And they don’t want to live by those rules.

                Go ahead, prove me wrong. Show me homeless shelters that are overbooked and full.

                • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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                  And they don’t want to live by those rules.

                  Those rules tend to kind of suck, to be fair. Certainly, if I was homeless, and had a dog, I wouldn’t really want to stay in any homeless shelter that banned me from keeping pets, if I didn’t absolutely have to. It’s really funny to me that people try to defend policies against drug use, or against holding drugs on the basis of addiction or something. I dunno, I thought it was a pretty common opinion to just want drugs to be legal since we all drink coffee and monster energy and IPAs anyways, and at this point I’d rather have heroin, or cocaine sprinkled honey buns, if for nothing else than to spice things up a little. Withdrawal symptoms are a sometimes lethal bitch, and that’s gonna be much harder to surmount outside of a shelter, than inside one, though, would be the main point of contention. IME homeless shelters tend to be populated on the usefulness of their service relative to putting up with “actual” homelessness. If your shelter is less useful than being homeless for most people, then most people will choose being homeless over your shelter.

                  And that’s not even really getting into the nonprofit shelters that basically require religious indoctrination on the half of the homeless, which is super scummy, or how lots of homeless shelters are super “out of the way”, and eliminate the homeless’s ability to be self-sufficient, or to seek help from whatever meager support network they tend to have. Or how homeless shelters are full of homeless people, and thus, suck to live in for everyone involved, relative to owning your own tent, where you can just move all your shit somewhere else in the event that you don’t like someone. Or how means-tested support programs tend to usually waste a ton of their budget testing the means of their applicants.

                  Overall I think even probably if you lived in like a communist utopian whatever whatever society with 0.1% homelessness and 99% employment or whatever, you’d probably still have, at the very least, a warehouse where you kept some excess beds, or where people could see which bed they wanted, that sort of thing, so it’s not like this picture is really illustrative of that much beyond just the plain visual irony of it, sort of in a similar genre to other pictures of, say, homeless people camping out underneath a huge trump billboard saying he’s building a new hotel or high rise or something. I dunno, this is the sort of shit you see on tiktok side by side with memes saying that jimmy fallon looks like the pink bug from backyardigans.

                  • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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                    The rules aren’t there to be agreed with. It’s how it is. If you’re homeless with a pet- that’s not anyone’s problem but yours. No one is obligated to take care of your responsibilities for you.

                    I’m all for anyone getting help, but not at the expense of people having to bow down and coddle to people who can’t see that they are- wether they are intentionally or not, a burden. And if you’re a burden- you don’t get to pick what rules you’ll follow.

                    Having said that- I understand that some people can’t help the situation they’re in- but we can have separate rules for those that wish to play along, and those that don’t.

                    Not when it’s a taxpayer expense. People tend to get pissed when they’re paying for a homeless guy’s dog food.

                    Moving forward-

                    No business is responsible for bedding and housing the homeless. This is NOT a capitalist ideology. It’s a logical one. The owner of that business cannot afford to just give away his inventory. Even under a democratic socialist economy- suggesting so is fucking stupid. (Not saying you’re suggesting so for the record)

                    We’ve come to some conclusion lately that everyone should give up their possessions, inventory, and whatever else to support those that don’t have those things- while a guarantee you that all the whiny SJWs here on Lemmy would have a shit-fit if they were asked to give up their own shit.

                    Fine to blame me for just being honest, as I honestly don’t care what these kids think of me- but I only hope that when they grow up- they’ll come to understand that their ideology has been incredibly flawed and that life exists within the gray area between what they only see as black and white.

                • @rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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                  41 year ago

                  Tell me you don’t know anything about the homeless situation with telling me. Homeless shelters are not a solution to homelessness.

                  • @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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                    For the record, that article is bogus. It’s counting total homeless population against beds available- NOT homeless seeking beds vs beds available.

                    There are TONS of homeless people that don’t want to seek shelter because most sheltered won’t let you do drugs there.

                    This would be the same thing as if I tried to argue that there’s a housing shortage because we are counting people that already live in houses or in nursing homes as people wanting to have houses and there’s not enough for these people.

                    Try again. This time- use actual numbers that represent homeless NEEDING beds.

                • Bene Gesserit Witch
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                  Go ahead, prove me wrong. Show me homeless shelters that are overbooked and full.

                  I mean you did ask 🤷‍♂️

      • @crashfrog@lemm.ee
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        -81 year ago

        If anything this guy is a lot less in need of a bed than someone who hasn’t trained themselves to be able to sleep in a doorway (to wit, me.)

    • Why are you so intent on defending the ruling class? You aren’t in their group. You’re a broke ass like the rest of us and you never will achieve anywhere near enough wealth to forget that.

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        -11 year ago

        So just because the “ruling class” is shitty and there needs to be change, we should just be allowed to make stupid, embarrassing statements that show a complete lack of understanding of society or economics?