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somethingawful bf
Jun 17, 2005
The way things work right now is if you are wealthy you pay a lot of money for a good lawyer to get you off so you don't have to do anytime in jail/prison. Or you pay off the judge, or both. Either way it's just moving money around the already wealthy. So, how about rich people pay homeless people to do their prison/jail time for them instead. It will get them off the street, give them a place to sleep and eat, and when(if) they get released they will have some money to make something with their lives.

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Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

the solution is to buy op a home

PsionicAnt
Jul 16, 2001
hmm great idea op petition forwarded to my congressman

house of the dad
Jul 4, 2005

how about we mark a big hole with "homeless shelter" but it's really just a big hole that drops a real long way and kills anything that falls into it

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

but i dont wanna be a spaceship
Fun Shoe
great op name post combo, oh, no wait, no, its poo poo.

just solve wars with bumfights.

edit : or perhaps make camps for them to live in, make sure they get plenty of exercise so they loose lots of weight, as they are not actual people, we can just tattoo number on them.

staberind fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Sep 17, 2015

Enfield
May 30, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
i live in a garbage can

givepatajob
Apr 8, 2003

One finds that this is the best of all possible worlds.
Remember when rich folks were paying the handicapped to help them jump the line at Disney? That was awesome.

ChickenWyngz
Apr 3, 2015

Got them WMD's! Got that Pandemic!
Feed the homeless to the hungry

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Socialism :shrug:

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

Poetic Justice posted:

The way things work right now is if you are wealthy you pay a lot of money for a good lawyer to get you off so you don't have to do anytime in jail/prison. Or you pay off the judge, or both. Either way it's just moving money around the already wealthy. So, how about rich people pay homeless people to do their prison/jail time for them instead. It will get them off the street, give them a place to sleep and eat, and when(if) they get released they will have some money to make something with their lives.

THey used to do this with military services and drafts. IDK why they ever stopped.

de_dust
Jan 21, 2009

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

Poetic Justice posted:

The way things work right now is if you are wealthy you pay a lot of money for a good lawyer to get you off so you don't have to do anytime in jail/prison. Or you pay off the judge, or both. Either way it's just moving money around the already wealthy. So, how about rich people pay homeless people to do their prison/jail time for them instead. It will get them off the street, give them a place to sleep and eat, and when(if) they get released they will have some money to make something with their lives.

you can do this in india already lol

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

de_dust posted:

you can do this in india already lol

holy poo poo. We should go on a killing spree in india.

proof of concept
Mar 6, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

Give Pat a Job posted:

Remember when rich folks were paying the handicapped to help them jump the line at Disney? That was awesome.

that's a pretty sweet hustle for the crippled people involved though, get paid to ride awesome rides all day long without having to wait in line? Not too shabby imo

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Al Borland posted:

holy poo poo. We should go on a killing spree in india.

Poors have been killing themselves at ridiculous rates ever since India introduced neoliberal economic reforms

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Poors have been killing themselves at ridiculous rates ever since India introduced neoliberal economic reforms

sounds great whats the going rate of how many poors I can kill for 500 USD?

Commie NedFlanders
Mar 8, 2014

Isn't this the idea behind bail?

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

Commie NedFlanders posted:

Isn't this the idea behind bail?

no bail just gets you out of holding not a trial. Im saying how many to get off scott free and have some bum sit in prison or death row for me?

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

gigawhite posted:

how about we mark a big hole with "homeless shelter" but it's really just a big hole that drops a real long way and kills anything that falls into it

Except the ones who willingly avail themselves of shelters aren't the problem.

H.H
Oct 24, 2006

August is the Cruelest Month
This is literally the premise of a side character in the Russian cult classic "the golden calf" (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9...%83%D0%BD%D1%82 if you can read Russian).

Basically, the premise is that said character will become the head of your company, and if you so happen to engage in illegal activity and get caught, will do time instead of you.

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

gigawhite posted:

how about we mark a big hole with "homeless shelter" but it's really just a big hole that drops a real long way and kills anything that falls into it

this except we push the wealthy into it and give the homeless their mansions

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
what if we made apartments for them, and then gave it to them for free

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Al Borland posted:

holy poo poo. We should go on a killing spree in india.

No joke, human life has no value there. You see dead people in the street and if it's a poor nobody bats an eye. See also china, where if you hit a kid with your car you back over them a few times to make sure theyre dead.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

Poetic Justice posted:

The way things work right now is if you are wealthy you pay a lot of money for a good lawyer to get you off so you don't have to do anytime in jail/prison. Or you pay off the judge, or both. Either way it's just moving money around the already wealthy. So, how about rich people pay homeless people to do their prison/jail time for them instead. It will get them off the street, give them a place to sleep and eat, and when(if) they get released they will have some money to make something with their lives.

Let's just eliminate laws protecting the homeless so the wealthy can just go rape and murder them without consequence. Then we film the shenanigans and boom, hit reality tv.

Sinding Johansson
Dec 1, 2006
STARVED FOR ATTENTION
arm the homeless

Dapper Dan
Dec 16, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!

Poetic Justice posted:

The way things work right now is if you are wealthy you pay a lot of money for a good lawyer to get you off so you don't have to do anytime in jail/prison. Or you pay off the judge, or both. Either way it's just moving money around the already wealthy. So, how about rich people pay homeless people to do their prison/jail time for them instead. It will get them off the street, give them a place to sleep and eat, and when(if) they get released they will have some money to make something with their lives.

the solution has already been found: you give the homeless apartments and get them treatment, never kicking them out even if they relapse. this has been done before. utah is poised to end the homeless problem in the state by 2020. since 2005, it has reduced homelessness by 75%. why? because utah did the math and found out it was far cheaper to give the homeless free housing than rotating them out of jails and mental hospitals.

it isn't implemented everywhere because people are stupid pieces of poo poo, who go 'gently caress, why do these people get free housing? bootstraps bootstraps bootstraps'. meanwhile, they're losing money and wondering why state services have gone down the shitter.

EDIT:
utah found that jail, hospital, and other services cost the state 20k a person. they found if they gave a homeless person an apartment and a social worker, it cost them 8k.

Dapper Dan fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Sep 17, 2015

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

it exists and it's called the mcrib

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

social vegan
Nov 7, 2014



Let all the rich people fight each other but they can only craft weapons out of legal tender

Yaldabaoth
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth

Dapper Dan posted:

it isn't implemented everywhere because people are stupid pieces of poo poo, who go 'gently caress, why do these people get free housing? bootstraps bootstraps bootstraps'. meanwhile, they're losing money and wondering why state services have gone down the shitter.

nazis were more merciful than bootstraps-lovers because if they didn't like you they just sent you to a death camp instead of cutting off your social safety net and forcing you to live on the street because they're too chickenshit to pull the trigger

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



nuke the USA

AEMINAL
May 22, 2015

barf barf i am a dog, barf on your carpet, barf
This also happens all the time in china

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

Dapper Dan posted:

the solution has already been found: you give the homeless apartments and get them treatment, never kicking them out even if they relapse. this has been done before. utah is poised to end the homeless problem in the state by 2020. since 2005, it has reduced homelessness by 75%. why? because utah did the math and found out it was far cheaper to give the homeless free housing than rotating them out of jails and mental hospitals.

it isn't implemented everywhere because people are stupid pieces of poo poo, who go 'gently caress, why do these people get free housing? bootstraps bootstraps bootstraps'. meanwhile, they're losing money and wondering why state services have gone down the shitter.

EDIT:
utah found that jail, hospital, and other services cost the state 20k a person. they found if they gave a homeless person an apartment and a social worker, it cost them 8k.

This. loving this.

Arrrghhhh "why should I have to pay for housing then. I should just be homeless" = the stupidest argument against it.

Ahundredbux
Oct 25, 2007

The right to bear arms

Shadow posted:

This. loving this.

Arrrghhhh "why should I have to pay for housing then. I should just be homeless" = the stupidest argument against it.

not to mention there's a greater chance they actually turn their life around if they have a loving home

Booblord Zagats
Oct 30, 2011


Pork Pro
Military campaigns in Western and Central Asia

Shadow
Jun 25, 2002

Ahundredbux posted:

not to mention there's a greater chance they actually turn their life around if they have a loving home

Right.

In the philosophy of your typical fygm rear end in a top hat, they shouldn't get this chance. They should have just been born to well to do parents. :rolleyes:

somethingawful bf
Jun 17, 2005
So just give all homeless people a house? Is that even remotely sustainable lol Do they get free water/electricity too? Where do you draw the line? Should they get free SA accounts with plat while we're at it?

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Poetic Justice posted:

So just give all homeless people a house? Is that even remotely sustainable lol Do they get free water/electricity too?

why not? you think homeless people don't drink water when they are homeless? they are already consuming water/electricity from free sources

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
misery doesn't actually make people more productive, the opposite in fact

somethingawful bf
Jun 17, 2005

Rutibex posted:

why not? you think homeless people don't drink water when they are homeless? they are already consuming water/electricity from free sources

So, what should these newfound homeowners have to do to maintain ownership of said home? Is it theirs for life no matter what?

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Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012


make them into food

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