This is the most capitalist dystopia thing I've read today!
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This is the most capitalist dystopia thing you've read today, so far!
Wait until he hears about the shipping container wall at UC Berkley
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As homelessness continues to grow, so does the number of those living in their vehicles.
🇺🇸 🦅 The American Dream 🦅 🇺🇸
They call it the American Dream because you gotta be asleep to believe it.
Americans are finding refuge in 'safe Hoovervilles'
Well, we are nearing the 30s 😬
Still waiting for the swinging 20s
Swingin' 1980s
Woo!! We are gonna be in a history book now! 😬
As someone who lived full time in a fifth wheel voluntarily with my family, living mobile in a tiny home, RV, or camper van can be pretty awesome. However, many of these people aren't doing it by choice and that should never be the case.
Having a tiny camper that isn’t going to break, a decent supply of food and money, and a YouTube channel all about your “Van Life” is a lot different than sleeping in the back of your car because you have no way to escape America.
Yeah that's basically what I said. Doing it by choice versus not by choice is a big difference.
Well I got what you said, guess they're just a bit grumpy today.
I lived in a Geo Metro for about a month, then it got towed and I was sleeping on the street. Having a car to go into is so far above and beyond have no place at all to go into.
I've done it for over twenty years. It's feasible, but sometimes not ideal.
Americans living in their cars
😱😱😱
are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’
🤗🤗🤗
They must be really happy about how amazing the economy is doing.
This has been going on for nearly a decade already. Probably two decades now
~12min video on it from an Australian public broadcast service, from mid-2014:
Safe parking lots are better than living in a van down by the river!
You wish that you could have a spot as nice as by the river.
Families sleepin' in their cars out in the Southwest
No job, no home, no peace, no rest, no rest
Another Snow Crash prediction is coming true.
When I read that book I was a Doordash driver, and it was so funny reading the description of the guy.
Are the highways leading to Alaska above sea level enough for those linear shanty towns to exist?