Can there be no homeless people in a capitalist society?

Question

I have always wondered whether our Capitalistic system creates homlesness and why the people who create it the most seem to be helping the people who they exploit. Is there is any reality anyone can see in a capitalist system where there are no homeless people, I realize the ideals of the founding fathers in private property ownership might be part of the reason but people is there a solution? I don't really have a problem with the economic system but I would love it if someone had a solution.

Answer 1

The problem in capitalist society is that every has to EARN their own living. Those who don't work do not get luxuries at the cost of working peoples expense. That is what was good about USSR. Everybody was prosperous and there was no capitalism. Nobody was poor in USSR. Thats why nobody ever tried to escape out of country. Same is the case with N Korea today.

Answer 2

Jesus said about 2000 years ago in a non capitalistic society that "the poor you would have always".

And in another parable of "the talents" he showed how some workers by their efforts made more than others. It seemed like the one that had all the excuses not to work was the one that did the least. His talent was given to the one did the most with what he had. Everyone started the same.

In the scenario you ponder about you are dealing with ideal situations with both the economy and the people who generate it. Logically homelessness should not exist in such a society.

But the real world you recognize falls far short of that ideal. Luckily in America we have government programs, and social religious or non religious organizations that are out there trying to help remedy this by providing food, clothing, shelter, and medicine, education etc.

Yet in spite of all this help we must recognize that there are others who choose not to want help or want to help themselves. Therefore homeless people will always remain in this capitalist society. Homeless people too have rights. They have the right to be left alone if that is their choice.

Answer 3

In a purely capitalistic society there will always be the bottem tier of people (homeless). Now what we have in the United States is a hybrid form of Capitalism and Socialism. The older our country has gotten the more Socialist ideals have been added to our way of thinking (welfare etc.).
Even in a pure Socialist Utopian society there may be homeless people, as some chose the life style, but they would be elevated in status, because they wouldbe able to eat good food etc.

Answer 4

A majority of the 'chronic' homeless are suffering from mental illness, drug addiction or acute alcoholism. They weren't seen on the streets prior to the late 70's early 80's. Some dogood liberals decided that many people in mental institutions shouldn't be held there as they were capable of functioning on their own with medication. They won a class action suit and an awful lot of mental hospitals closed. The patients were turned out on the streets per the court order. That is why you see so many homeless today. Most can't or won't hold a job and can't afford their meds even if they wanted them.

Answer 5

Capitalism is a hierarchical system, so there will always be people on the bottom rung, EG. homeless people. They are the byproduct of the system. In theory there has to be a way to raise the lowest standards of living, but it would prove difficult, mainly because governments fret too much over things like war and the military, and end up diverting a lot of funds in that direction.

As for solutions I think spreading and increasing education would help. There are definitely groups of people in society who could benefit from education. If college was less expensive, and schools were less tolerant of failure, then the base education level would rise, I'd assume. So I figure teaching people how to deal with life would help them make better decisions.

Contrarily human nature is prone to greed, jealousy, and violence regardless of one's education level.

Answer 6

There will ALWAYS be homeless people.

Come done to South Louisiana right now. Due to the hurricanes we have a labor shortage and construction jobs starting at $15-$18 / hour, and there are still homeless and unemployed people walking around.

Our capitalistic system is simply liberty. Liberty does not create homelessness.
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Answer 7

Half of the homeless are addicts. Most of the rest are mentally ill. The liberals threw them out on the streets in the 1970s. There used to be institutions to take care of them. Ironically, government created its own problem once again.

Answer 8

No. As crazy as it may sound some people choose to be homeless. I do not know what percentage of people choose to be homeless, but some people enjoy the freedom of that lifestyle.