The idea that being a homeless drug addict should be sustainable is taken for granted. It's awful for the people who are homeless and it's awful for the people around them every day.
Seems like it’s rooted in the absolute rejection of any and all authority, the only morality is in being a victim even if that means dying in the street … totally evil but the people behaving this way will go to their grave believing they are heroes
They don’t believe people have the capacity to improve. In fact, they seem to increasingly largely reject the idea there is such a thing as improvement. Relativism is poison.
What is sad to me are the kids you see out here (late teens-twenties), as it’s not too late for them to course correct and meaningfully participate in society.
But the way our policies work (I’m in Seattle, similar to SF) they’re on the fast-track to being burned out husks.