I read stats on homelessness, addictions, and mental health. Most people suffer from poor mental health and addictions after becoming homeless. Who knew a lack of accommodation and stability leads to more problems...?

We vilify the impoverished more than drug dealers (I'm not job-shaming dealers) because at least they're making money and buying bullshit.

We've always had homelessness in Los Angeles, but there's never been this many people sleeping rough. Free-trade agreements, cuts to social care, the 08 housing and financial crisis, the fires, the pandemic, low wages, and the dire economy threw people to the curb. It was incremental until it accelerated, and now, I have no idea how anyone can fix it.

Our government stopped funding affordable housing projects in the 60s or 70s, and the decades' result of neoliberal hell is in our streets. We trusted liars who told us everyone benefits from free trade and deregulation.

Everyone is miserable and angry, yet no one knows why or who to blame because we've been fed a lot of pro-capitalism rhetoric. So, we never discuss the backward economic system or wonder where the billionaires got their billions. Perhaps their money magically appeared.