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The strength of a society can be measured by how it treats its most vulnerable. The US fails big time. These scenes are appalling.
The first statement. Is as solid as a rock. It is not only the US that fails. It is easy to pick up on them so they are used to frighten people.
This isn't something new. It's why many Europeans see the USA both as "a younger brother with a huge, but wasted potential" and "a third world in first world disguise."
A socialist US wouldn't show you scenes like this...cause the technology you are using to watch this wouldn't be invented.
It's easy for European socialists to care for the poor while the US provides them with products without which they would be stuck in the 70s and be bored out of their minds
@@celsus7979 What products are you talking about. Europe is far ahead of USA. Most tech is invented in Europe.
Best country in the world 👍🏻
As a teenager, I was so fascinated and enthusiastic about America. I really wanted to emigrate there. Now, as an adult, I think, fortunately, I've never taken that step.
I did and left after 8 months,good move on your part not to go there,it's a horrible country and some view it as an industrialised third world country.
Add me..i was teen in 80s in Yugoslavia..US TV series were extremely popular ..in that TV series teens go to school in cool cars ,people drived in private planes(Dynasty) ..everything was cool ,ritch...yes there were also lot off crimes in some TV series (like Miami Vice ,Moolight) but it was just like for story so i tought its just for story..that it was not real.
I was not aware that my small city was much better then all that USA..we did not have single homeless people,we did not have drugs ,we did not have crime ,we spend time outside and out parent were not worried will something happen to us.
So my theory (is my opinion based on just my experience) that Yugoslavia fall apart because off fake presentation that there is some dream land were everyone is rich and drive a Red Ferrari so we want that 2
Same, America seemed so amazing when I was younger and now it seems like a horrible country to live in
propaganda is an amazing thing :D
@@carlosbelo9304 What kind of propaganda?
It’s just that even educated, reasonable people in the US hate the word “Socialism” they think it’s “communism”. It isn’t. Caring for one’s citizens in a practical and tangible way, giving them the support they need to thrive? Not an ideology. A moral responsibility. Simple.
Socialism is economical system of communism. You can't have one without another. Educate yourself. Europe has sociasim like system but it's not socialism as our social care is paid by us in form of taxes. It's not free like some people and garbage yt videos lead you to belive, you don't get it if you never worked, healthcare is free only if you are paying taxes for it and working or attending school on any level. Educate yourself how it works. Both communism and socialism are evil and lead to disaster. Poland introduced socialist program 500+ where you would get 500zl per child it was ofc paid from our taxes both people with kids and those that don't have kids. It lead to rise of pleb getting drunk and quiting jobs because they no longer had to work if they have 3+ kids and all of that was financed by actual working good people. It resulted in rise in due to poor and uneducated people quiting jobs poverty and in the end along with other socialist ideas lead to less and less people wanting to have children in such country it had opposite effect as all social initiatives have. As European all I can say f communism and f socialism.
I live in the city of Aarhus in Denmark. The city has 300,000 residents and 507 homeless people. Aarhus has teamed up with 24 organizations to make Aarhus the first city in Denmark without homelessness. REMOVING HOMELESSNESS NEEDS TO BE A PRIORITY FOR THE POLITICIANS TO WORK!
Best politics goal ever... Thx to Aarhus
How do they plan to do this? Housing or sending them to the next municipality?
Hope you mean helping them. Remotion was already attempted by a german guy a century ago.
I'm Danish, and I find it hard to understand and accept, how US calls herself the richest and greatest country in the world, when less than 1 % of the population owns more than 99% of the money!!!
I have watched a lot of videos about America and it’s rich because the workers are poorly paid, there is no decent healthcare for people,no decent holiday entitlement food very expensive to name but a few issues. I heard someone say American is a third world country that wears a Gucci belt and I think that’s true.🏴🇬🇧
I know, hence why the wealth of an economy means very little when the wealth isn't distributed like we see in the US and I always find it amusing when governments like to brag about how well the economy is doing or unemployment rate, yet, a lot of Americans are not seeing those benefits, Trump is a clear indication that a lot of Americans are not happy with how with are and voted him in as a protest vote against the established mainstream in politics that are just not listening, the same thing happened in the UK with Brexit, which ironically likes to brag about how well the economy is doing and yet the average person isn't feeling these benefits, in fact, for many, it feels like things are getting worse not better, that's more or less how the UK and US have been going over the last decade or so, and things seem to be getting worse in the UK after Brexit and things have not really changed in the US under Biden.
Europeans are the real lucky ones, it's a shame they don't realise how lucky and easy they've got it, because boy do we Europeans love to complain about everything which gives the impression that things are worse than they are, go live in the US for a few months and a real wake-up call will kick in.
This is what pure capitalism looks like folks. This is what happens when you let the big corporations and the oligarchs control the government. And then you expect that same government to regulate and sanction them. To be clear I'm not saying communism is good. Hell no. I'm from a former communist country and I'd be the first one to hate on communism. But to sit and pretend that capitalism is this perfect utopia would be foolish. No system is perfect. In theory communism also sounds perfect, everyone has a job, free healthcare, cheap food and housing - utopia. But every time it's been put into practice it always fails. Why? Because there's one thing Marx's papers didn't account for - the human aspect. As soon as you put someone in power, even if that person is most humble man you know, there will be greed. Humans will always put their own interests before the interests of others. We need (and by 'we' I mostly mean the american people) to stop pretending that capitalism doesn't have any problems and actually look around and start doing something to fix said problems.
I think the complaining is good. It keeps the politicians on their toes a little.
When people stop complaining and start making these weird excuses that a lot of americans do regarding the homeless is when things will start getting worse regardless of how good they are now.@@paul1979uk2000
GDP is meaningless. Average household wealth of every citizens is the true indicator of how well the country is.
I'm portuguese and yes there is homelessness in Europe but not like this, the US government doesn't seem to care about it's citizens. Free healthcare is a human right. Housing crisis is rampant everywhere but I think that in Europe the southern European countries are suffering the most.
Greetings from Finland, and I agree, free healthcare is a basic human right.
i think maybe portugal has some more homeless than other places in eu because ive never even seen any in barcelona or much of spain, scandanavian countries or a numer of uk cities.
I think Americans will settle for affordable healthcare.
Same here in Italy. Our economy is not doing great but free health care and free housing for poor people allow to have few people being homeless
I'm 43 years of age and I've never seen a homeless person in my life, in Europe that is.
I know they exist, the stats say so, but it must be so rare that a lot of us never see it.
I do know in Europe that they take care a lot more of the poor and people that could become homeless, in fact, if I'm not mistaken, homelessness is illegal in many cities and towns across Europe where the system has to house them.
The US is very different, it's much easier to become homeless, either through debt, job loss or lack of support from the system, but I find it shocking the lack of care from Americans on people that are poor or are just having a hard time of things, the country is rich, the resources are there to change things, but clearly the lack of care isn't because a lot of people are out for themselves.
Seeing all this breaks my heart, especially as a German. We constantly complain about how badly off we often are, but compared to the US, it's a different world. I think the main problem in the US is the lack of a safety net through a social system with taxes, which exists here in Germany. Nobody wants to pay taxes, everyone complains about it, but a social system can only function in this way.
Until the system collapses. It will happen eventually…
We have taxes here for safety net as well. The problem is we have 6 million illegal immigrants right now that the government is helping but not their own citizens.
@@timreverend2591 Not necessarily. It will function properly. The only thing that would destroy it is someone coming in with fascist intentions.
that argument again....dude, most of these immigrants works and pay more taxes than most average American. Most businesses preferred to hired them to works because unlike American they didn't complain much and do their job without any fuss. If American youth stop being lazy entitled brat the illegal immigrants wont have a job and they wont come. No matter how much you complained about illegal immigrant if the companies and corporation in America still hired them, they will keep coming. the USA is govern by corporation and kleptocracy, not the people... so what the corporation want will be taken in to account more than what the people want. American citizen payed less taxes then any other country in the world. Not enough tax money to do anything tbh.@@rmf9567
This. I'm an American who came to live in Germany 5 years ago and it kills me when I hear Germans saying shit like we should do things more like the US. Please god, no. Cherish how you're different. Germany does so many things so much better than the US does. Of course there's always room for improvement but good god, keep working within your values PLEASE.
... I'm from Poland and for me this is unimaginable. Here in big cities You can see homeless people but like few (eg. last time i was in Kraków or Katowice I did see maybe 3 during the day). This looks like some 3rd world country stuff...It's also main reason why I canceled my trip to US, going to Japan instead.
Such conditions and such poverty is a disgrace for any Western industrialized country.
even more so for the richest of them all.
@@Plugnkill Yes, now you know how they became rich
What causes this is apathy due to capitalism on steroids. The same attitude that prevents the US from having socialised healthcare for example, people who are raking it in while others are ignored and left to suffer. It’s a case of “not on my doorstep”. The billionaires who run America are only interested in their next billion not the plight of these people, they’re not even on the agenda.
Paris is starting to look like that as well. I assume London does too. Can we all stop pretending our countries are paradise?
People get destroyed, city centers get destroyed, neighborhoods get destroyed, people in neighborhoods get destroyed. Well done US!
For me it's typical that Ryan doesn't know where this is. Shame on you
Ryan, I don't want to sound patronising or offend anyone but kudos to you for watching this and sharing it with everyone. I don't think many would. You seem genuinely shocked and saddened. More of this should be shown. No offence intended to anyone. ✌
Oh, clearly an offence - not to the people suffering, but the politicians responsible for the conditions!
This will continue as long as we worry if our word might offend!
welcome to the reality since 4ever in USA this is not NEW HELLOO Anyways Glad another paid attention ... still being positive folks just do ot understand why this is NEW TO ALL OF Humans IN USA HELLLOOOOOoooooo Congrats for watching Oh Booiii ,
I have been to a lot of European cities and there is homelessness everywhere but I HAVE NEWER seen anything come even close to this. It IS HEART BREAKING to see.
It is impossible to change as long as YOUR GOVERNMENT DONT GIVE A SHIT.
also THE PEOPLE don't give a shit.... in american individualism to the max... the propaganda also tell them that ''they are homeless because they are lazy''
In most European countries you will only be homeless if you really want to and deny government help. Everybody gets shelter usually at least.
I grew up in Philly. I left in 2012. I went to high school with guys from this neighborhood. It was always a rough, working class neighborhood but it never looked like this. People had jobs. People could afford to live a decent life. Now, the neighborhood is completely decimated. When I left in 2012, some guys did a drug deal as I was walking past them. The store owner came out screaming at them. I was terrified. Since then, it's gotten exponentially worse. The city even cleaned the trash from the streets and carted the people away. It took about a few weeks and the situation went right back to what it was.
This is Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia. I am British and have seen several videos showing the same problem. Venice Beach, downtown Los Angeles, I have seen so many homeless encampments in the USA. But what really bothers me is there are normal working families with young children who have to walk past this every day to go to school or work. even the local park is called needle park. The tranq they are taking with the Fentanyl rots the skin and gives them ulcers and they have to have amputation. there are narco packs attached to a lot of the posts along the street because Fentanyl overdoses are rife. Fentanyl is being smuggled in but the Tranquiliser is horse tranq, which has not been banned by the FDA. This is the result of the pharmacuetical companies profit making. Why aren't they building affordable housing, why aren't they cracking down on the dealers, why aren't they providing mental health facilities, why do some charities working on these streets take someone in to get clean and then release them out onto the street in the same area. So many why's and no answers.
Same here and there are many places that are startint to see that in usa by the way how american person can dont know about this problem increasong higly in their corners...
And when you realise the hidden dimension of the problem- that many people working a full time job are living in a car with their children because they can't afford a home, it becomes so much worse. And to answer your question of why they 'help' someone and then return them to the same problem, that's because thats how they make the money- the Homeless Industrial Complex. If the problem was solved what would the "not-for-profits" (LOL!!) do?
@@TheZodiacz Bingo!
The Sackler Family and their company, who introduced this epidemic to the American public, that and the fact that private corporations have more influence than the American public through the lobbying system of the old back scratch.
Sent all the $$$ to Bandera neonazi's in ukraine.
Went on a vacation with my parents and brother in 1983 to America because it's suppose to be the greatest country on earth. We saw a lot of beatiful things but in the last week we took a taxi from our hotel in Manhattan to JFK airport en were shocked. Street after street of absolute poverty. Filled with homeless people, some with tents. Maybe the problem is bigger now but nothing new. Opened my eyes to your society and the way America treats people who are not able to cope with everything life is throwing at them.
There was homeless back then there? Wow!
I visited Houston in 1973 and stayed with a black friend I met in Europe. I am white and was a sort of zoo exhibit. 😅.
A black friend I met there used to take me to visit a sister still living in The Heights where she had grown up. I was shocked. Dirt roads with huge puddles just sitting there. The houses were large wooden huts up on bricks. Just like the chicken shed down the garden in the UK. My 2 year old son and I were welcomed as friends of the family. My son played in the street with the local kids while we drank coffee and chatted.
In a city with fenced housing compounds with armed security guards at the gates as well as unfenced cheaper compounds
there are quite a few homeless in big cities in Germany, but no where nearly as many as shown in this video. its truely a shame that the richest country in the history of the world allows this to happen
There are hundreds of them in Frankfurt and Berlin. Saw it on NIUS a new information portal. Just because it is not as much as worse as in the US, it is not less horrible. In Germany the things come up only a little bit slower. But the begin has already started....
@@monsteraable yes... the neo-liberal right-wing capitalist cancer will kill us all.
It seems you are an unbiased, sober, good hearted person. Don’t change❤
I'm from EU, Latvia, traveled EU a lot. NEVER i have seen anything like this bad in EU.
This is what an individualistic society looks like. Good job America! You got EXACTLY what you wanted and you gaslight yourselves into the propaganda that you're the 'greatest country in the world' and that nowhere else has it better.
I grew up in Africa and it was like looking at images from home.
Yes it's true! Downtown LA is terrible, but is invisible from Hollywood! 😵
Well, we did import lots of Africans ;-)
what the hell delete that@@williambranch4283
Yet you get the same in collectivist societies, my friend. Many a socialist/communist state has created famine, homelessness, breadlines, ect, too. This is the product of rampant materialism and apathy, where massive profit, GDP, data spreadsheets, and material gain are worth far more than people and societal health.
@@Roman_Eagle Fake news, Red China is paradise ;-)
I've been to Seattle a lot of times throughout the last years, but after COVID it got even worse. Tents in the older parts of the city, whole streets filled with trash and abandoned homeless areas, barracks along the highway. I was really sad that the situation has gone out of control in such a short time. And it's really worrying me that a so called modern society seemingly isn't able to solve this situation - embarassing and shameful. In the end this is the root of many other issues like crime, violence, etc. . A modern society should build a supporting framework for all of it's people. Guess, a social market economy with affordable healthcare, etc. isn't that bad. Before America thinks it is a model for the rest of the world, they should get a grip on these problems. Don't get me wrong I liked it there, but this makes me really sad and was one reason I decided against moving there.
Ryan, I was shocked when I first visited the USA from Australia and saw the disparity in wealth and homelessness. I believe the source of the problem is the USA has long valued hard work and individuality over more collective values like understanding the social determinants of poverty, drug use and ill-health, and caring for the poor. This is the result. Europe and Australia have poverty but it is not even close to the USA. One day I hope you can travel more, and see with your own eyes. Also worth considering how US exceptionalism and manifest destiny is a barrier to change.
It'd the cities with the most social programs and most liberal and progressive you see this, so the problem is more.complex. we have a corrupts political system and your solution is to give government more power
@@greensorrel6860 outsourcing all manufacturing had a lot to do with things, destroyed employment rights, wages and closed down communities all across America, Create decent paying jobs, with health insurance included and give people back a sense of worth and pride rather than hopelessness and despair. Apple i phones, as he mentioned here, all made cheep in China where even the Chinese workers found the conditions hard. It's true too, that Americans think the obscenely rich, deserve to be so through hard work, I've yet to see the evidence to support Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk's right to live on Mars but I wouldn't mind seeing the back of them, and the new philanthropy of ex Microsoft mogul Bill Gates, is dictating World Health Policy, now I wonder who he's really working for?
@@greensorrel6860 boy do you need to do more study. The homeless gravitate to cities with better social programs because they have a better chance OF SURVIVING in those areas. That doesnt mean they all originally come from those areas. Unless you yourself have spoken to these people, you have zero idea how they came to be where they are.
I have been travelling to the US since 1970 and every time I go it is worse. This year I saw scenes exactly like this in Hawaii, Chicago, New York, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles and Oakland/San Francisco and I was not looking for them they are just there. Huge tent "Towns" on streets and vacant land. I have no idea how any American could not have seen it. Out driving on back roads where no tourist goes I saw these same poor sad people standing on road intersections. Can a country cure all of it, No but a country that opened its eyes could do a lot more. I am so saddened to see a great country go so downhill in my own lifetime. Was it this problem in the 40's to 70"s No, then why now is a question that has to be asked.
It has been like that at least over three decades. When I visited first time New York at 1990 as 19yo, one of the biggest shock factors for me was to see all the homeless people sleeping on the street. When we left the place where we were sleeping for our dance classes there was no empty spot next to the houses on our street. In every spot there was someone sleeping. They left during the day and were back on next morning. I had never seen anything like that since I'm from Finland. I have to say that after that trip I have never complained from our taxes. It really gave me personally a perspective why I want to have our own system. It's not perfect in here but at least there is some support to people when they hit the hard times.
I also visited New York in the late 80's and was completely shocked by the same scenes. We got lost and drove through an area where there was trash everywhere. Old washers, mattresses and piles of scrap wood and metal just piled on peoples front yards and under overpasses. The extreme poverty was like nothing I had ever seen.
I never went back but count my blessings that I live in a "we" society not an "I" society.
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I concur, my first visit was in 1987, and I was shocked, too.
They dont see the problem before they are in it, and they dont care, have you ever traveled to at tourist spot with many US, It's like they own the country.
That’s because New York has been too expensive to live in for decades.
Same ..i only visited USA ones ..and that was in 1989 with my parents ..15 days LA..i am from ex Yugoslavia and then we teens were fascinated with USA based on all the US TV series and movies we watched then...but for me in real person was cultural shock..under every overpass there were homeless people living ..before that i never saw homeless person (not in my country not in surrounding countries i been at the time).
Off course it was not all bad..like cars were so much bigger then in my country ,for me who lived in small city everything was HUGE ..but i saw even back then its not for me ,and not a dream country i had tought
I was a drug addict during the 90s in Germany (Frankfurt), it wasn't as bad as I see in this video, but it was almost the same thing and right in the center of the city.. These people are suffering and need help and what happens to them can happen to everyone, without exception...
PS: What saved my life after several withdrawals of all kinds was first of all the methadone and above all to get as far away as possible from the place and the people with whom you lived in this hell
I live in the US and I myself have been homeless. Yes it really is that bad out there, and I was homeless prior to covid 19 too. It’s worse now. I was homeless for years not just a couple months. I was homeless as a young woman surrounded by very unsafe people. I have seen many things. I saw someone stabbed, I have watched friends fall to addiction. I was SAd in a public park once. Mentally ill people not getting the medical help they need to be ok. Someone tried to kidnap me once. Someday I might write a book about my experiences if I can find some help in writing it.
I see people just like this everyday because I moved i to an apt not far from the area in which they are, and that I once was too.
You SHOULD write the book. You sound like you're in a much better place. How were you able to escape that situation?
You live in a society where individuals only care about themselves. You reap what you sow.
If you think cities in other countries are less self absorbed, you're a little delusional. You can find similar pictures in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Rome... Caring about your neighbors doesn't do anything when our governments abandon improving the nation in favor of money, image and careers.
Sorry but all those countries have a safty net and certainly in west Europe no one needs to be homeless.
@@mirrrie yeah you can just surrender yourself to the state, get some awful housing asigned (if it's not been relegated to refugee housing), then line up in the humiliation line once a week and get your alms. These "safety nets" also exist in the US but not everyone uses them because they're demeaning and disgusting. For many people in these situations the last thing they have is their pride. Then there are of course also people who moved to the west from balkan countries after the west destroyed their economies who weren't able to make it here and are now too ashamed to go back home. I encourage you to actually talk to some homeless europeans and not just let social media and memes inform your opinions. What you just posted is simply privileged nonsense.
@@mirrrie tell that to all the poeple who lost their homes, heck their lives in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis.
@@CloakingDonkey It is you, who is talking nonsense. I am european, in my country there is not one city, where people are camping in tents on the streets. Social safety net is surely used much more than you think, including free healthcare, schools etc. % of homeless is also lower and we are much poorer country then USA. Most of our homeless are homeless by choice. You really think that it is more humiliating to go ask for wellfare then to sleep in tent on the street?
This is what happens when America does not have good Social Programs. this is late-stage Capitalism at its finest.
They could have Social Programs if they wanted but you know ' COMMUNISM '
I have in the past walkthrough streets like this to get to areas that are surprisingly close to them that are nothing like this and I will tell you it is the most heart-wrenching experience you could ever imagine. Initially you think it would be fear but then it's just heartbreak.
The American dream. Greatest country in the world. God bless America. 😢
Never understod that.
When my daughter went over to the Us she was shocked how dirty the streets on San Francisco were. She said the smell of urine was overwhelming and there were a ton of homelessness.
It's pretty much the same in all US cities.
@@101steel4 Nope. Tenderloin, SF is... something else. Human shit, human blood, naked old ladies with deep flesh wounds all over their bodies, decapitated pigeons, hordes (!) of mentally ill homeless people... in every corner! It's insane. You literally can't walk on the pavement because of all the tents and drug addicts sitting there.
@@SatieSatie wow
I had the same experince with New York. Like it, but I am never gonna back the smell amd dirtyness. 😢
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
Forgive me but is that quote verified. In 18th century the Americans didn't live in all of 'the Continent' just the 13 colonies. Or is it like Einstein quote "don't believe everything you read on internet"?
@@mrsrcadalzofrom 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin
Thank you @2deth3
It's a nice quote, but this isn't the cause and if it is, it's not the main one. I would say: most directly most problems in the US don't get solved because money in politics.
@@autohmae which is exactly Jefferson's point- the corporations own the politicians and poverty is a key tool to control the masses.
Back in the early 80's I was doing work experience and one of the people I was working with was from South Africa - this was when Apartheid was rampant. She said that when she got to Australia and saw the news footage we saw, she finally got to see just how bad things were as it was never shown on the TV locally. SHe would write to her friends and family back home and tell them about the things going on that they had no idea about - riots, bashings, ghettos, the sheer destitution of the black people at the time.
America is now at the same place that South Africa was nearly 40 years ago. The general public is kept unaware of the real situation while the rest of the world looking in is saying "Open your eyes! Look around you! Help your fellow people!!"
In Finland there are practically no long-term homeless people and almost no short term homelessness. In the US you lose your job or get sued or get an illness, you suddenly can't afford housing. In Finland if that would happen, you'll get money from the government institutions to afford to live. You get healthcare for free and you get money for sick days at work, but honestly you can theoretically still become homeless. Generally speaking that's a strange situation. In the US there's homeless people almost everywhere, and to me that's completely unthinkable. Poor people and drug users or alcoholics shouldn't just be thrown out to the streets.
They need help, not punishment or even harder times than they already have.
It isn't only the number of homeless, it is also the degree to which the streets appear unkempt. Are there no street cleaners in these cities? The US is today rated as the most economically divided of the 38 OECD countries.
You clean the streets.... But the next day they are dirty again. You need to help those people first. Healthcare, shelters, programs for addicted people. And then you have billionaires complaining they don't find workers that work for a penny per hour.
They do clean the streets, but these people are homeless and do not have any facilities, no sanitation, no washing facilities and the food and clothes they get are from charitable groups who come round and hand out hot food, the wrappers end up on the floor, who would want to be a street cleaner when they have to clean up faeces, blood soiled bandages, needles. The police are parked in different places but can't do anything.
@@c.krueger9530is it just places with the homeless that are littered?
@@tymondabrowski12 is this a question related to the topic of the video?
@@c.krueger9530Me as a European immediately say , pay the people a living wage to clean the streets, then they have a job, can find a home and the cycle is broken. It appals me the fatalism of Americans. It’s so flaming obvious.
And with regard to universal health care, a homeless person can turn up to a hospital and be told come right in. No problems they are entitled to the same care as anyone else.
Once in a hospital efforts are made to help them find a job and a job and get them off their addictions.
It’s that first initial step, you know the ones that you have pay taxes for and for you as a decent member of society to pay your taxes that will help others not you.
I was so sorry to here you say with fatalism, I don’t know what can be done, not one iota of introspection to think of course it can be helped, I have to be prepared to use what money I have to help them and those stupidly rich billionaires don’t need all that money , they need to be paying significant taxes that go towards improving the country they live in.
There are many simple answers but first of all Americans need to stop saying ,I don’t know what to do.
Many homeless people are working two to three jobs but cannot afford even a one room apartment in over 90% of American cities. Unregulated Capitalism means that people are forced into poverty & then the poverty is criminalised & then overcrowded private prisons make money out of forced labour. Channels such as this one can help to inform & educate. Power to your elbow. Make the USA work for its people & then it may once again be able to claim that it is 'great'.
yes, its insane to know that about 50% of those homeless in the US have a full time job. It just don't pay enough for them to pay for a home
Not in 90% of cities that’s way over exaggerated.
Maybe 90% of MAJOR cities, but not all cities. Could easily get affordable housing in smaller cities or towns.
@@GilaMonster971 not on minimum wage u cant
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 so you don’t think you can pay $700/month for a two bedroom apartment on minimum wage?
That’s how much they cost in my area...and minimum wage is $15/hr.
@GilaMonster971 no the federal minimum wage in the US is $7.25 & only $2.13 for those that earn tips!! It does vary among states with Washington having the highest @ $15.74
This is what has been called the largest open air drug market in the northeast - Kensington Ave in Philadelphia.
I love the US! I travel to the US about once a year. This year I spent about a month in the US and I noticed this as well. It was absolutely shocking and disheartening to see similar situations in pretty much all cities I visited. So sad! Especially San Francisco felt so problematic where the city seems to be slowly dying (in combination with all the stealing going on). But it is not only in the US. I went to Vancouver as well and I took a bus there where there blocks and blocks filled with people just standing there, numbed by the drugs. Shocking!
Europe is, thankfully, not really experiencing this to the scale North America is. When it comes to housing, it is an issue in Western Europe for sure, but the drugs are generally not (yet) a major issue, but I heard Scotland has some issues like this.
Governments and lawmaker policies are failing all of us! I expect huge political shifts in Europe in the coming years. Unfortunately the US can only make a (viable) choice between 2 parties. I do hope the US will see meaningful change as well. Love Europe, love USA.
It's crazy how WE know in the UK how bad the US homeless/drug problem is and you don't ! It's in our newspapers.
The ZOMBIE drug XYLAZINE is being used in epidemic amounts in the USA, especially in Philadelphia.
Xylazine still hasn't been regulated by the FDA, Why?
Yes! You can see how many of these ppl are showing signs of being on the Zombie drug. Its so sad.
Yes, there are homeless people and there are drug attics and alcoholics as well in Europe, although I have never seen something as bad as this. This is because there is better access to healthcare and there are more opportunities for these people to get help. In the Netherlands, there is a big shortage of affordable housing, but still not as bad as this situation.
Attics?! 👍🤪
This is an example of why absolute capitalism is not a good thing.
Most of these people are a caste out of society.
There isn't money to be made from them, so it's their problem.
This is a really bad downward spiral. Lose your job, no health care, no safety net. And so on.
If there is nothing to look out for, is it that hard to think that someone will try to escape into substance abuse.
What will make the problem even bigger.
Wish I had the answers and influence to help all the homeless. This is such a waste of human potential.
The consequences of homelessness and poverty are very expensive. So even from a capitalist point of view, it doesn’t make sense to leave people to their fate like this.
There is no such thing as absolute capitalism. Capitalism is the only thing that has historically worked, but by paying a little more tax, as in Scandinavia, you can ensure social security. Here, nobody walks on the streets, everyone has electricity and you get money for food and what you need while you take school, courses or look for work - so that you didn't end up completely out of the system as they obviously do here. Hospitals are also free, so you always get medical attention
@@lpdude2005Isn't Norway like filthy rich? Also feudalism worked for way longer than we have capitalism, afaik. Not that anyone would want to go back to it. But capitalism vs communism is a false dichotomy, there is probably plenty of systems we haven't checked yet. Though capitalism + regulations + taxes + a supporting country (healthcare, education, police/army, city administration and otger things financed and regulated by the government) sounds like the best current idea for me. Imho we still haven't reached the best parts yet, lots to improve still.
In 2016 the UN released a report on poverty in the U.S.
40 million living in poverty
18.5 million living in extreme poverty
They found conditions in the southern states close to 3rd world countries
Greatest country in the world.......
greatest country in the world btw.
so much freedom ... awesome
Agree. Total freedom to be homeless and drugged as much as you want and as long as you want. :(
"At least we can own a gun do defend ourself"
@@stonedmountainunicorn9532 Your name is apt, whose using the family brain cell today?
Not all countries need a gun for people to defend themselves as there is no need.@@stonedmountainunicorn9532
@@brianshockledge3241Rather share a single brain cell with my family, then sharing one with the rest of a country, Mr America.
Never smoked one in your life did you?
I cant think of a country without some people being homeless, but this is insane. The richest, most powerful country not willingly to help it's own people
In American culture, it is the believed that people are only poor because they are lazy and lack the motivation to become rich. Hence there is no need to help poor people. Meanwhile rich people deserve all their wealth because they worked for it.
@@nickl5658 i've said it before and i will say it again. Americans are the odd one. Weither it's meassurement, date, healthcare, diet, so many gun related deaths, etc. This one is just another number on the list.
@@nickl5658(by the way most rich people didn't work for it, just inherit welth that's passed down for generations and generations, and invest it in a major company so they don't lose it.)
As crazy as it seems, Cuba has near-zero homlessness
@@alessandrosilvafilho8527 🤣🤣
I learned in economy class in school (here in Austria) that rent here is actually supposed to be capped at one third of your income. I don't remember why, but I remember my teacher saying that. But sadly these days rent usually costs you two thirds or probably even more now with inflation. The cost of living just goes up and up and up, but salaries don't.
This is Kensington PA. Very sad that our citizens have to go through this.
I lived in Seattle off and on from 1964-1985 with time in New York and Alabama. In 1985 I moved with my wife to Norway and have lived here since. We have visited family and friends in the US ca. every 4-5 years and have noticed the decline each time. We were in Seattle in 2022 and from what we saw we decided that was the last time we are visiting the US.
I think the decline is getting faster every day. It was a weird experience to walk the streets of Seattle after COVID in 2021/2022. My US colleagues recommended to stay away from some streets as the situation is pretty bad, but I had the feeling that it got worse in most areas.
I live in a relatively poor town in the UK, while there is a problem with homelessness, the levels generally goes in line with drink and drug abuse. As far as I am aware there are no cities in the UK with anything the levels seen in this video. Yes, there are a lot of homeless people in the bigger cities like London and Manchester but not on this scale where there are entire districts essentially abandoned by the authorities to just 'homeless encampments'.
We have it here in DK, but most decide to become homeless, because they are offered money and a place to stay. But they want/need the freedom
Going by the area code on that pawn shop, this is Philadelphia, PA. Known as the City of Brotherly Love, I believe.
Award winning danish photographer Jacob Holdt spent three years in the 1970s exploring and documenting the dark side of the US while travelling through the country. From his 15,000 photos it resulted in the book American Pictures and a very famous lecture and slide show that he's given at Yale, Stanford and many other prestigious institutions. My (danish) highschool hired him in the 1990s (he was a friend of one of the teachers) and it was so eye-opening. It drastically changed my view of the US. You could say that he took a huge hammer and thoroughly smashed my rose tinted glasses. Holy....! 🤯 Yes, this was almost 50 years ago but the disparity between the top and bottom classes in the US have unfortunately only increased since then. I highly recommend the book...if you can stomach it. 😢
I've been watching videos on this issue & it's shocking. In Los Angelos there over 60,000 homeless people. A lot of big cities have this problem. Nobody doing anything to help these misfortunate people. Shame on the Government. It's outrageous.
To have a comparison, Strasbourg in France has 6000 Homeless peeps, the city has something like 2500 places like hôtel rooms for them.
I talk about my city, because all the numbers i Saw from paris seems too low to be Real.
For the rest of Europe, can't tell.
That's shocking, supposedly all of Canada has approximately half that! Of course, nobody lives here, but still!
@@lexywackess In Madrid (population 3.25 million people) there are 650 homeless people who don't want to be helped, because of addictions (mainly alcohol) or mental illness.
There are another 2400 people who go to shelters or are relocated in social buildings while they try to get jobs and rebuild their lives.
@@BlackHoleSpain can't Say the number of those specifically in my place, tons of ours are immigrants that are refused, as they are close to Germany they often tried there first then ended UP in eastern france
@@orbitorsteve3742 Yes, in Canada our city and provincial governments have been slow to address this issue as well.
When I lived on the streets in San Diego, it looked exactly like this around the homeless shelters. Since I moved to Europe, I don't see anything remotely like that here. We have homeless people, but it's nothing like that. Even the traveller/Roma camps are nowhere near as dirty and disgusting as that.
Beyond unbelievable for the USA. Where are the Mayor, politicians, police, social workers, doctors??
Only economists at work.
I seen an interview with a homeless person and he said the difference between being homeless can be not getting your next paycheck, he was a lawyer, lost his job and his home because he was living paycheck to paycheck.
I'm Australian. We certainly have our problems with homelessness, and housing for ppl on low incomes is incredibly tight, but we don't have the extent of problems that some US cities do. It's really sad to see.
I worked in a homeless shelter and at least the government gives funding to fight homelessness in Australia.
Scomo cut the funding by 40% and Albo has put it up by 300%, but still more funding is needed.
Õńň ÝêŘ ĶõBbŁéŘzŽ. 👍👍
Unfortunately our country always follows the terrible trends of society in the US. Give it a few more years it will be here too. Following the US doesnt lead to anywhere good.
@@MS-wz9jm Nah, we do not follow the way the US do their social welfare systems and thank fuck for that. Horrendous.
@@MS-wz9jm We have the right government now, past record stands out: Old age pension, unemployment payment, medicare, NDIS, Age care, 40 hour work week, 38 hour work week, paid holidays, long service leave, sick pay, public housing.
The only down side is when you look at Scomo's last budget it's WTF, the arsehole put in cuts to services that don't come in till as late as 2026 knowing the Albo will take the fall for them
Costs a lot of American dollars to run the most powerful army in the world
US military budget for 2023 is $2.04 TRILLION. Supposedly to protect the very people they deprive of basic care and let die on the streets.
It is so rich that could finance two whole armies!
45 years ago I visited my sister in Dallas from the TV series welth & oppulance. My brother in law on taking me a tour he also took me a drive through a shanty town just off the city centre it was a eye opener.
Thanks for bringing up the topic.
"Maybe" USA have such high GDP because they are milking and taking short their citizens🤷♂....Yes, EU have homeless people as well but its not even fraction of what you can see here. This is absolutely terrible.
Ryan, that's good, that you show this. I often look at these short films. As a European it is absolut unbelievable to have people living on the streets. And the drug abuse is an enormous problem, obviously.
I mean it happens very very often in Europe too
@@stoxxoll5556true
@@stoxxoll5556 true, but I haven't seen anything on this scale.
@@stoxxoll5556No. Not to this extent. And countries like Finland have no homelessness at all. Like in ZERO.
@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965I wonder if that has to do with the harsh winters there. Even here in Germany a lot of homeless people freeze to death. That would be much worse in Finland I think.
This is in Philadelphia. Kensington neighborhood to be exact. I've been in this area to shop back in 1985 and this place was very beautiful with shops all around.
I been to LA this year... i broke down seeing the amount of people homeless and high on drugs, in the middle of the streets, at all times. So scary. America has a big problem to solve.
This is what happens when society is all about the selfish individual and not the community..
And the less educated ones want to vote in Trump again. The irony is that this is happening during a democratic government. Either way they have lost their way.
You are right, and you can see it when you meet US tourist around the world, at attitude of the leaders of the free world is horrible.
Actually, it's the responsibility of politicians cutting taxes and spendings on welfare, still having no real health care for everyone, not really fighting drug addiction and so on. So I wouldn't call on the average citizen, as they cannot change the situation. Only politics can, but they need to tell the people that taxes have to be risen. That would be too unpopular in the U. S. of A. And they don't have a real democracy anyway, because there are only two parties. Having only one party in Russia or China is clearly worse, but not very far away from having just two.
Communism is coming to America
I have never seen anything like this in Sweden or any other European country I’ve been to. In Sweden you have, by law, the right to a bed and food.
When anyone in the US suggests that all people deserve food, shelter and healthcare we're called anti-American and communist and told to get the hell out of the country and move to N Korea
Stämmer det verkligen? Var får de dessa förnödenheter?
@@Olivia-ny6nl ja. Det stämmer dock är det så att du själv måste uppsöka plats eller bespisning. Precis som för alla statens bidrag eller program så är det du som medborgare som är den som måste vara aktiv för att få ta del av dem.
we have honeless people here in Czech republic too. We are small country, less than 11 milion citizens. All our homeless people in whole country are less people than people on this one street. Second thing is that our police will never tolerate tents on streets.
Even homeless can at least receive free health care in Australia or UK. Being unemployed or homeless could actually put you at risk of disease, lifetime debt or even death. The streets are so dirty also - so sanitation would be an issue too. So sad.
Location is Kensington Ave in Philadelphia, PA, opposite East Lippincotts Street. The 735 billionairs in USA could solve homelessness in USA permanently if they gave just 2% of their weath, to social housing and health care.
here in germany, in my city we have some organisations that helps those people with alot of stuff. I was homeless for 2 years aswell in my early ages with 19 to 21 where i still was in school actually. There should be gov funded hospitals or installments where addicts can get treated etc etc. its quite sad to see that in the US, its literally such a rich nation you cant believe how much money the US has and yet they dont care and also alot of americans say that those people chose this life which is mostly wrong anyways but whatever i guess.
I saw a video from Philadelphia, and the most eerie thing was that there was several people just standing hunched over, staring into the void. As if they genuinely didn't know what to do at all... Not even trying to get a bit of shade or get a bit more comfortable by sitting in a corner.
Check homeless in San Francisco and Seattle, Detroit , there are more. It’s caused by drugs in many cases, losing jobs, unable to find another job, can’t pay rent so end up in cars till that breaks down then just on the street.
If America wants to reduce the amount of people living on the streets.
The homeless shelters need to ALLOW people with drug and alcohol addictions to have a bed in the shelter.
Refusing people to have access to a homeless shelter because they have an addiction, it’s cruel to say the least!
Especially considering these people are probably already at their lowest point in life!
That may be why drugs are so cheap in these cities, just a thought! 🤔
And the drug addicts are those that need the most amount of help.
is just being an addict enough to not let in? cause i can understand those under the influence at that time not being let it.
@@hullmees666 Of course not, every homeless person needs help. All i meant was, it is even harder for those who extra issues, such ae drug addiction.
@@hullmees666 This couldn't happen in Australia, there is always somewhere, or someone, to help them survive, or somewhere to go for respite where they can find understanding and empathy! 🤨
In Austria, a cap on rent prices has just been introduced, in order to keep housing more affordable. Making sure people have a place to live is very important in keeping people from going totally to pieces. You need regulation for that. Markets won't do that for you.
Solving homelessness is actually not that difficult. Just give the homeless a home. That's it.
A cap on rent prices is just a stupid idea. Never worked anywhere. The real solution is social housing, which Austria actually is pretty good in. Problem is, that such program cost money and are the first to get cut, if money if tight.
@@amduser86 actually it's a cap on rent price _increases_ , sorry. The rent can't be increased by more than 5% a year. It will at least stop the prices from running away like in some places, where people can't afford a place to live any more.
Social housing is the answer, yes. Reducing the (artificial) scarcity would prevent the market from asking too much. It's actually the duty of the government, since having a place to live is a human right. It needs to be done better than it seems to be done in the US, though.
@@horrovac
that basically what they tried to do in Berlin and it backfired really hard
I live in Munich, one of the most expensive cities in the world and there are no scenes like this anywhere in this city. Maybe poverty is hidden and I'm sure it is - people talk about the "retired poor" but there are no street scenes like this in Munich, or anywhere in
Germany that I have seen.
How have you not seen this? It's everywhere you go
America, the land of the billionaires.
We have homeless people in Germany.
But it's nothing compared to this dystopian nightmare.
I think most of Europe is the same. We all have homeless people, but nothing like this. Zombies.
@@101steel4I think I've seen somewhere that in Philadelphia there is a high usage of so called zombie drug (xylazine). It might be responsible for all the "sleeping while standing/sitting down" scenerios in the video. But that's just a guess
In England we have huge homeless problem,it used to be mainly military veterans and drug addicts but in cost of living crisis it is now all stratas of society,interest rates went up so much people are losing there homes
I cannot believe how it is in USA, I saw a video of New Yorks homeless. I saw one post which was ticked over 300 times, he said why should we who work pay for those who cannot bother to work. Its the same thing as those not wanting free health care for all. I am British and this makes me weep. Of course we have homelessness but nothing like this. In my town we house them in churches and halls with warm blankets and fresh clothes in the colder months. Never give them money , but food, it will go on alcohol and drugs. It needs someone important to do something. It makes me sick that most Billionaires in your country dont do something. Ryan you are a completely different person do this video than the ones you do Amerca versus U K. I am glad to see this caring side of you.
As a German im sooo glad the goverment here realy does something for the homeless people here . I can truely say i didn´t even saw a homeless person in years im aware of homelessness in germany bur its realy low percentage
Not sure where you live, but I would see homeless people every day going across the city. Trying to sleep on bench of the Ubahn, in substations or begging on the main community streets. Not even close to the amount of those in this video though.
They exist. In Berlin for exxample. But most of the homeless people here have serious problems, with drugs or mentally I guess. AS you could normally get a flat for free from the state..
@@benb6744 We have a lack of affordable living spaces for decades, because our government fails to get shit done. Or some even sell their to the privat market like I heard it happened in Bavaria. We are not a bad as the US of A yet, but certain parties surely try to get us there.
In Germany we also have homeless people, but they concentrate in the center of larger cities. People living in smaller cities and town might never see any. We have a lot of homeless shelters, but the problem for many is that they are not allowed to bring their dogs.
There are a lot of homeless people on the streets of Berlin, or even Munich, many more than just 10 years ago. You don’t have to go to any certain area or very poor neighbourhoods, just everywhere also in the richer areas in the centre. It is terribly sad but it happens in any bigger cities, in the US and Europe, in any country. But at this level, I don’t think so.😢
Homelessnes exists in all of Europe, but in my country (Norway) its technically illegal, meaning a safe place to sleep must be made available. In most cases that means the person gets a flat of some sort. In the norhern part where I live homelessness equals death as it gets really cold. I know they have had some problems in Oslo (the capitol in the south), mainly due to undocumented immigrants. Also, there will always be people who fall trough the cracks, but if I am not mistaken a person can just go to the cops and they will arrange indoor sleeping, at worst they will use a cell if nothing is available elsewhere. But in my area there are no homeless people or junkies in the streets, but I live in a small city.
Norway has 5 million people. Philadelphia alone has 1.5 million.
The more people, the more problems.
@@user-wi3tc1ek8f more people means more resources to deal with the problem. At last in Sweden (like in many other European countries) nobody is forced to live on the street. The social welfare will provide a place to live. The few cases of homelessness are often "by choice" when people turn down help for any reason.
@@user-wi3tc1ek8fwell, that is true, but the USA do have a massive homelessness problem and are not really doing much to fix it.
Norway has a small popluation and is a rich country, we are lucky, we know that.
The US government could and should do more to end homelessness. Instead of just putting people in jail.
@@mckrogh79 Government here has become too subservient to corporations.
This patriot is getting a reality check
I'm from Croatia and in Europe, we treat our poorest people much better then US. You don't even see the on the streets. There are shelters. Free medical care. No drug problem or gun violence as US. You became third world country compared to Europe
I have seen videos similar to this one and it seems like this one was taken in Philadelphia - Kensington.
I live in Hungary, Eastern- Europe and we had zero homeless during communism/socialism, then after the regime change to capitalism we had a lot in the 90-s, but far from this many. Today the situation here is not that bad, there are a few homeless in big cities who are concentrated near the entrances of subway stations but during the summer they live in the forests or parks.
Western Europe barely has any homeless, the social system there is very effective.
I was in New York in 1991 and the streets looked the same, so for me this is nothing new, just another big city in the USA.
The reason you ask? The reason is unregulated and out of control capitalism, people buying houses and basically everything with loans, people drowning in debt and the lack of universal healthcare, the lack of any kind of social services for poor people.
The solution: capitalism combined with socialism like in the Northern-Europen countries, like The Netehrlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark...
As a Swedish person I can only agree to your statements!
It's more complicated than that. Not every country can be a fiscal paradise like some of these countries are or export oil like Norway.
That was on point.
Personallly, as a dane, I think the (mental)healthcare system is the biggest problem to this situation.
@@fernandotaveira7573Well, Sweden manages is and we do not have any oil. Our biggest export is wood products and some steel. Also, the US does have oil aswell, does it not?
Spend 1% less on the army and spend it on your poor/sick/homeless instead.
It really is that simple.
I agree. I am from the Netherlands and live in Hungary. Love it here and I would never go to the USA. Everything looks run down and worn out, not just the people...
I beg to differ, the breaking point is when a video like this doesn't go viral.
There is homelessness here in the UK, but its on a quieter, smaller level. In the next 10 years families will move into vans and RVs and tent cities will take over suburbs and city parks.
You ask a very good question 'How can I help as an individual '. Unfortunately if the Government of a country is so uncaring and turns its back on the problem , the individual can only make an extreamly small impact.
God bless America
This is in Kensington, Philadelphia. It has a lot of homeless drug addicted people, and has been like this for years.
The city is Philadelphia. This video was nothing compared to some of them. In other videos people can be seen having sex, shooting up and being resuscitated. It is horriffic and should never be happening in a first world country. We have homeless in Europe but proportionately not on this level.
You're able to narrow down where this one is because only a few cities have Elevated or EL trains in the major parts of their cities. This one happens to be in Philly as someone else said. There's a big one in Chicago that also looks an awful lot like this. What struck me is how many people were physically disabled.
Keep in mind that the old stereotypes of homelessness are not applicable anymore with what is happening in the US. We have tons of apartments sitting vacant while a lot of people with disabilities or just people who are unemployed or underemployed have become homeless, as well as in many cities plenty of people who are working full time or even more than that-- and on top of it people think that drug use is always the cause of homelessness, but it's not. Sometimes it becomes a symptom of it when someone has been homeless for too long -- that they actually start using drugs so that they can deal with the pain, distress, fear, and plenty of other issues that come with it.
@@alidemirbas6566 haha that was the fugitive - Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee!
But I am from Wisconsin and they made a mistake and said Milwaukee's got an EL -- Wisconsin ain't got $%#* for infrastructure, never built any train systems let alone an EL haha. We were hoping for a highspeed rail just to go through the major cities but Scott Walker canceled it over a decade ago and cost us a small fortune in contract fees. But yeah no EL -- that scene is on youtube if you look up Fugitive EL scene. Good callback!
To be fair, i know more housed people that take drugs, than the other way around. And my social circle consists mostly of metalheads and (unhoused) punks besides work... so i dont think drugs are the cause for homelessness, but maybe a side-effect of improper care for addiction in general, given that gambling can cost you your house a lot faster than smoking a dooby in the morning before work.
I had a one week trip to Seattle last year. Im from Germany. And the Homelessness and the amount of closed up stores in Downton Seattle was Scary. Drug Abuse in the middle of the Day , it was honestly Scary to walk around with my Wife. We had to skip many streets because these People were sometimes agressive and allways trying to Verbaly attack my Wife. Dont get me Wrong we still had a good Time in Seattle, but it was still a gigantic Shock for us. It was kinda like visiting a 3 world Country.
Kennington hit hard with the opioid
Crisis & it’s not just cities small towns hit hard too. Philly neighborhoods were built around factory and warehouses. When manufacturing left all that replaced the area were low paying retail jobs. Hospital will stabilize and treat you to stabilization. Also a lot of these ppl were once subsidized prime borrows that lost their homes
I’m Polish and to see an actual homeless person you would need to really make an effort - probably go to a train station at night, that’s the only place that comes to my mind and there still would be just a few people (I live in Warsaw, not sure how it looks like in other cities). Coming to think of it, I remember seeing homeless people ot the streets as a child, but that would be like 25-20 years ago, now it’s a very unusual sight. I’m probably extremely stupid to not understand how it is possible that my country with its GDP being soooo much lower than the US has dealt with the problem over the years, but it’s getting worse in the US. Any chance someone could explain or at least have a theory?
GDP is the false measure of country's overall well-being. In accounting, intragroup transactions are eliminated on consolidation, but GDP doesn't do that.
Imagine you asked your brother a favor and he demanded $1000 for that. There's 0 profit for your family, but gdp account gets +$1000 for your consumption. Meanwhile your neighbors care about each other for free, so they don't add to gdp.
Same is here: if calling an ambulance in the US costs about $2500 but is free in Poland, US GDP gets +$2500, while polish GDP gets $0. So, which one do you think is good for people in this case: having higher gdp or lower?
"Capitalism Good, Sociolism Bad"
There are lots of homeless people around Central Station and Palace of Culture And Science but it's a lot less than in this video. There were much more homeless people in the 90' but now it's much smaller issue. Still a topic of discussion though, they are still there.
Capitalism...
One thing comes to mind for me…..Trillions spent on their military…….that’s more important than caring for your own citizens apparently.
Homelessness in Americans cities are an epidemic.
Rows and rows of tents along the pavement, pretty much everywhere.
Same in Canada, if I go downtown in my city to near where the hostels are and the churches that give out food there are hundreds and hundreds of people huddled along the street, sleeping everywhere, on drugs, in tents or sleeping bags or just laying on the street itself
The opening images are Philly, PA, Kensington Av, not just homelessness, drug addiction, traffic, and prostitution. but we have Needle Park, a nice retreat
As Lithuanian I tought we had rough during 90's (We actually had) but this looks like another level shit
I’m from Italy and yes we do have homelessness here but NOTHING close to what I just saw in this video. There’s no groups living in tents. Free healthcare and free housing for poor people make a huge difference here.
The reality of the issue is that it is much easier to end up homeless in the US than in Italy.
That said Italy stopped having any serious social housing projects in the 90s. And there are issues as well, during winter homeless people die in northern Italy. Not many, but a few do, each year.
And sure, unlike in most of the US there is a social safety net capable of containing the worst excesses of the system, but the issue still exists. And it’s getting worse
Never seen anything like this in Western Europe in any documentary or youtube videos, let alone in real life. Opioid epidemic is a specifically american problem and here in Western Europe homeless people tend to aggregate in historical centers or central stations where they can beg more easily, these are places authorities try to keep somewhat clean and tidy, not some random neighboorhood drug addicts can transform in hellscapes like the one in this video.
In Italy the South is a lot poorer than Northern Italy and the rest of Western Europe, unemployment is extremely high, and while you might find places where organized crime and the mafia rule the entire social structure, like the Zen in Palermo or the Vele di Scampia near Naples, nowhere have I ever seen so many people living in such awful and unsanitary conditions as the ones showed in this video and dozens of other videos and documentaries about the homelessness crisis in the US.
This shows how the link between economic growth and social equality and justice isn't as direct as you think...
It's filmed during the day. Many of those people probably have a bed in a homeless shelter, but they get thrown out back onto the streets every morning.
@@Psi-Storm this happens everywhere
Living the american dream. This is what an ultra-individualistic society looks like. And no, I'm neither a liberal nor à communist.
What really blows my mind is that you see this for the first time! This was on the news a month ago here in Belgium. It's called Trancq , the zombie drug. It's a drug mixed with horse tranquiliser to prolong the high of the drug...
I suggest everybody to read up on how Finland dealt with homelessness
Let me guess... they just wait for winter?
@@heyfriend8519go and read about it, afterwards you probably will sound just a bit less stupid xD
@heyfriend8519 they gave everyone who was homeless a home. And it cost society less than not doing so.
But... But socialism?!?!
@@friedrichjunztyou failed to understand what socialism is compared to being social. There is also a system out there called social capitalism and many in-between.
Not supposed to call people with out a home, homeless 😂😂😂
That is ridiculous! That is quite literally the definition of homelessness 😂😂
It is houselessness, home is not a house
Its typical USA thing😂 Sugarcoating and playing with words instead of actually solving problem.
the thing is I don't think they care about this at all
@@erurainon6842 They all think 1984 was a manual. Well, a manual written by a person that wasn't very creative, but a good starting point.
@@azeplayt4546 Thanks for example of word playing.
America, the land of hope and glory
I used to like Janis Joplin's line "freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose". Not anymore.