1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,320 Homelessness By Seb 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,640 One hundred million people are homeless worldwide 3 00:00:08,780 --> 00:00:13,160 and there are over one hundred million empty apartments worldwide. 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,920 Why those homeless are not living in those empty apartments is still beyond my mind? 5 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,560 In today’s self-entrapped world of the so smart mobile phone, 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:29,020 it has become much easier to ignore all those that don’t even have a home. 7 00:00:29,380 --> 00:00:32,659 How many homeless people have you walked passed on the street? 8 00:00:32,940 --> 00:00:39,240 How many times have you tried to put yourself in their shoes watching all those passing feet? 9 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,020 Why are they begging and nobody is helping? 10 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:46,820 Why is there more food than ever before but nothing for them to eat? 11 00:00:47,620 --> 00:00:53,360 With the amount of money the United States spends every year on Christmas decorations alone 12 00:00:53,660 --> 00:00:57,140 they could easily eliminate their issue of homelessness. 13 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,600 It is really not that difficult to overcome most of our problems today 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:09,180 if we gather and work collectively and not get sucked into the predominantly reinforced culture of hopelessness. 15 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,800 Why does modern society make you feel like you are all on your own? 16 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,320 Why can’t we build a future where nobody is categorized as a negative externality 17 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:24,660 and thrown out into an artificially scarce society where you’re all alone. 18 00:01:25,420 --> 00:01:30,120 As many as 1.6 billion people lack adequate housing 19 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,380 and people are still defending today’s outdated market structure 20 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,840 which is depressingly astounding. 21 00:01:37,260 --> 00:01:40,780 Governments are using metal spikes to deal with the homeless, 22 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:46,280 and unless we change the structural forces that generate such backwards type thinking, 23 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:50,060 there will be little to no improvement to such coldness. 24 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:56,040 In today’s society, we take better care of those in jail than those on the street. 25 00:01:56,460 --> 00:02:01,760 Those behind bars are given beds, sheets, clothes, food, water and much more, 26 00:02:02,020 --> 00:02:06,500 whilst the homeless struggle every day just to get something to eat. 27 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:10,979 Homelessness is not an accident or a fixed social condition. 28 00:02:11,260 --> 00:02:16,500 It is the inevitable outcome of a very unequal and obsolete market system 29 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:22,560 based primarily on ruthless and predatory human vs. human competition. 30 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,760 It will take a completely new socioeconomic mission 31 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:31,940 where we instead use science and technology to design an emergent system 32 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:38,680 that makes sure everyone has access to clean water, clean air, healthy nutrition, relevant education 33 00:02:38,820 --> 00:02:41,660 and of course proper accommodation. 34 00:02:42,580 --> 00:02:44,880 The key message in this poem 35 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,640 is that suffering on the street of hunger, 36 00:02:47,740 --> 00:02:51,980 thirst, the cold, the heat, the loneliness, and the degradation 37 00:02:52,260 --> 00:02:55,380 has nothing to do with a person's chromosomes. 38 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:59,440 It has something to do with the social structure they are living in 39 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:03,000 that systemically denies them a home. 40 00:03:03,940 --> 00:03:07,440 To understand more about real solutions to homelessness 41 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:09,720 and most of our problems today 42 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:15,240 please check out Tromsite, The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement. 43 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,500 Also, if you want to see more TROM contents 44 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,300 and help this project grow, 45 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,440 please support us on tromsite.com/donate 46 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:27,760 Thanks for listening guys and as always, much love.