Can't Serve Two Masters April 22, 2026 at 11:05 am
Housing, food, water, health care, education, under capitalism those aren’t needs, they’re commodities. It isn’t that we can’t provide the unhoused with such things, but the system necessitates a constant demand for a profit-seeking venture to provide them. When you can’t allow yourself to look outside of such a system, well, then there simply is no solution to it. You’ve successfully externalized it, to the peril of the unhoused.
When your primary focus is profits, by definition your focus is no longer on meeting the needs of people. You must abdicate one at some point. Many have already made that decision.
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Housing, food, water, health care, education, under capitalism those aren’t needs, they’re commodities. It isn’t that we can’t provide the unhoused with such things, but the system necessitates a constant demand for a profit-seeking venture to provide them. When you can’t allow yourself to look outside of such a system, well, then there simply is no solution to it. You’ve successfully externalized it, to the peril of the unhoused.
When your primary focus is profits, by definition your focus is no longer on meeting the needs of people. You must abdicate one at some point. Many have already made that decision.