It’s a form of governance, you either want to read even just the last paragraph for yourself, or you don’t… ¯\(ツ)/¯

This is a long read (skip to the “conclusion” part at the end to get the gist) but I think it belongs:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mark-bray-horizontalism

(if anyone has a more easy to digest introduction to horizontal governance, ideally to read rather than watch, I’d love a link!)

Way to deliberately miss the point… I said “creating” not “adding”, it isn’t about the number of billionaires, but how they become that.

Lol, no, no he didn’t.

First step to mulching the rich… ¯\(ツ)/¯

…creating yet another billionaire, who, like all the others, didn’t earn that money. As is tradition.

I mean, homonyms exist, confusing them/not knowing a word has one doesn’t make it “wrong”. Surely you (e: plural, not having a go at you op lol) could tell tories and Tories apart by context (if not capitalisation)?

Not to mention self confessed domestic abuser, and general asshole…

Fair (and I’d actually just come back to edit that I realise this isn’t in the US), but the point still stands - this is blatant discrimination, no matter where it’s happening…

I’m disabled, if I worked at that company they would absolutely be withholding something from me, as well as plain old discriminating against me for my disability.
Fuck this hyper-capitalist ableist bullshit, and fuck cheering it on.

What is the good part in theory? I can’t see how what/how much exercise, if a person chooses/is able to do it at all, is relevant to their job? Especially in a company that makes paper??

If employers want their employees to be happier and healthier they need to pay them better (for their work, not for whatever unrelated and out of hours activity they decide to “reward”) and give them more time off, anything else is profit seeking bullshit.

So… An ADA suit for discrimination waiting to happen then… 🙄🤦‍♀️

ensure it is spent more wisely than most any singular person suffering from homelessness would likely spend it themselves.

Right, because being homeless means a person couldn’t possibly know what’s best for them, best treat them like children, there’s no other way! It’s not like literally the majority of people are a missed pay check or two away from becoming homeless themselves, it’s truly amazing how in that instance a person, according to you, suddenly loses all faculties of their mind… 🙄

Oh yeah, those damn cunning homeless people, there to make you uncomfortable with their suffering… (in case it isn’t clear - heavy sarcasm, your attitude is disgusting)

Instead, you should try and help passing laws and regulations to help them in your region.

no, because -

In the EU, for example 2016 a law has been made so everyone may create a basic bank account, even if they are homeless or foreigners

that is literally less than bare minimum and only provides help to those already getting support (applying for benefits takes much more than a bank account, without additional support, and a societal framework to end homelessness instead of making it “more manageable”, being able to get an account is still useless).

The only action any individual can take to end homelessness is to become an active anti-capitalist, since as long as capitalism exists, so will homelessness.

You say that you feel bad, and that your parents have taught you this all your life, so I assume you’re young and won’t be too hard on you but to put it bluntly - that is a terrible and ignorant take, even though it’s a feature, not a bug (and one that could impact your own family just as easily).

Homeless people are still people.

Many homeless people are in work, but even if they aren’t, and gasp even if they use drugs (which I know you’ve never considered why they use, or have been in a situation where your life is that hard your only chance to rest from it for a minute is by doing drugs), and even if they use whatever money they get to buy those drugs, they deserve the same basic decency and agency you would show any other human being. 9 times out of 10 they’ll be using the money to pay for a room in a shelter for the night or some food of their choosing (which you’d know if you’d ask them).

Giving a homeless person money (or even the nod you’re so averse to) lets them know that another human has seen them, and has seen them as a fellow human, not some crap on the street to be ignored or looked down on because they make you feel bad.

Once you start placing conditions on your kindness/donation (“no money they’ll use it for drugs”, or “here, have this stale food I’ve been carrying around for weeks in case I run in to someone like you. your dietary requirement, never mind likes or dislikes are irrelevant to me!”, or even “let me buy you something to eat”), you’re making it about you, taking away the last bit of agency many of these people have, and completely lose sight of the person you claim you want to help. At that point - walk away, the only person who might benefit is you, which means you’ve used a homeless person to boost your own ego.

The best advice I could give you is to start talking to people who already support homeless people. Once you’ve hopefully gained some understanding of homelessness and a little empathy to those dealing with it, then and only then could you start talking to directly to homeless people, as I said above, even if you can’t give them money, the sincere acknowledgment that they exist and are as deserving as anyone else of human interaction and kindness will show them that at least someone cares.

Am I the only one who thought the bull truck from Role Models? 😂

Ok, so the first half of your reply is agreeing with me about normalising zero tolerance to red flags, but what is the two way street? Do you mean the people who don’t walk away are the “other” side? Because putting it on them is exactly the kind of victim blaming I mentioned at the end of my reply…

I’m not sure I understand - who do you mean by “these people” and what exactly is a two way street?

Great, but not much help unless as a society we normalise acting on those warning signs and walking away, instead of so harshly judging and even gaslighting those who do (until after its too late, when it changes to the “why didn’t you leave” victim blaming).