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Out of curiosity, where were you homeless? Because the homeless populations differ from place to place, I'd imagine. Also, I hope you managed to find your way out of such a terrible situation.

There's a difference between poor working class people and homeless people. The kind of homeless people you find shitting on the streets and shooting up heroin in West Coast cities are not the same people you find working hard to barely make ends meet.

Well, the mentally ill are more likely to be down on their luck, so I think you'll see more of them represented among the homeless population. Nothing I've seen of their behavior really contradicts this.

Actually, I believe the order is backwards. They are living on the street because they were mentally ill. Being mentally ill means that you have a hard time holding down a job, taking care of yourself, etc., especially when there's nobody that can care for you. You get the idea?

What causes the mental illness is biology. Some people are more prone to it than others. The solution to that is mental hospitals. The problem of the broken housing market can be solved by geolibertarian housing policy. Remove the government restrictions on homebuilding, remove the rent...

None of these politicians, celebrities, or businessmen are willing to take on the underlying root causes of homelessness: mental illness and a broken housing market.

You're not going to get rid of the welfare state any other way though.

Alternatively, "most measures" are wrong. See this.

Personally? I think the solution to the welfare state is UBI. If you think I'm kidding, take a look at this Vox article. The article is essentially complaining about how Republicans are able to gut a lot of the functions of the state by promising to increase UBI. One could see a sort of...

Oh, man. I'm so sorry. I'm a bit riled up here. Sorry for snapping at you like that. You didn't deserve it.

Dude. My dude. What do you think my argument is? Thomas Sowell agrees with me about the worsening conditions of African-Americans since the Civil Rights movement. Hell, he would largely agree with me about the cause of such worsening conditions (welfare state + lax policing). Do you even read...

You didn't read the article, so you don't know what he's talking about or why he thinks that way. I just summarized it. I'm of the opinion that the GDP is useless, straight-up. There's so much laughable here, I don't even know where to begin. First, there's not really any reason why we should...

Well, Moldbug's essay begins like this: This point reiterates the point of a lot of Moldbug's essays, which is that there's a difference between "consensus reality" (what the elites believe and teach peasants like us to believe) and "actual reality" (which is what Moldbug believes). In other...

@Abhorsen, the blog post reading I sent you wasn’t Sam Altman’s blog. It was Mencius Moldbug using his blog responding to Sam Altman’s blog. Moldbug basically has a similar view to Tucker Carlson - he’s a Luddite and a Mercantilist. I’ve not seen a better argument for those positions elsewhere...

My guess? Not too many. But to be fair to libertarians, the Left conflates everything they don't like with Nazism. They're hardly unique in that regard. I mean... from what I've seen, pot legalization is a settled issue in the Left's favor with only token opposition from conservatives, the...

First, there's ample amount of empirical evidence suggesting that women discriminate when it comes to whom they date, that ethnocentrism is genetic in origin and manifest from birth, that it's universal throughout all mankind, and that it's a far more viable evolutionary strategy than altruism...

If libertarians and leftists come into conflict on some issue, the leftists will inevitably win, and certain number of libertarians will cheer them on. For example, how many free market types are willing to make the abolition of anti-discrimination laws their main platform?

My thought is that things that permanent victories libertarians crow about that have been accomplished have all happened to be things the Left wanted. Funny, that. Cthulhu always swims left.

If I had to guess, I’d say Carlson is against creative destruction and not capitalism as such. He likes people being able to own their own things and being free to buy and sell, but he doesn’t want a situation where robots cause mass unemployment, which is what he thinks is inevitable unless...

I largely agree with you, actually. Libertarian stuff is happening but economic libertarianism outside of free trade and immigration isn't. You think that mainstream parties co-opt a lot of libertarian policies, so people don't really care about the libertarians themselves? There are several...