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Homelessness
By Seb

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One hundred million people 
are homeless worldwide

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and there are over one hundred million 
empty apartments worldwide.

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Why those homeless are not living in those 
empty apartments is still beyond my mind?

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In today’s self-entrapped world 
of the so smart mobile phone,

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it has become much easier to ignore 
all those that don’t even have a home.

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How many homeless people have you 
walked passed on the street?

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How many times have you tried to put yourself 
in their shoes watching all those passing feet?

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Why are they begging 
and nobody is helping?

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Why is there more food than ever before 
but nothing for them to eat?

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With the amount of money the United States spends 
every year on Christmas decorations alone

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they could easily eliminate their issue 
of homelessness.

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It is really not that difficult to overcome 
most of our problems today

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if we gather and work collectively and not get sucked into the predominantly reinforced 
culture of hopelessness.

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Why does modern society make you 
feel like you are all on your own?

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Why can’t we build a future where nobody 
is categorized as a negative externality

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and thrown out into an artificially scarce 
society where you’re all alone.

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As many as 1.6 billion people 
lack adequate housing

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and people are still defending today’s 
outdated market structure

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which is depressingly astounding.

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Governments are using metal spikes 
to deal with the homeless,

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and unless we change the structural forces 
that generate such backwards type thinking,

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there will be little to no improvement 
to such coldness.

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In today’s society, we take better care of 
those in jail than those on the street.

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Those behind bars are given beds, sheets, 
clothes, food, water and much more,

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whilst the homeless struggle every day 
just to get something to eat.

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Homelessness is not an accident 
or a fixed social condition.

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It is the inevitable outcome of a very unequal 
and obsolete market system

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based primarily on ruthless and predatory 
human vs. human competition.

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It will take a completely new 
socioeconomic mission

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where we instead use science and technology 
to design an emergent system

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that makes sure everyone has access to clean water, 
clean air, healthy nutrition, relevant education

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and of course proper accommodation.

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The key message in this poem

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is that suffering on the street of hunger,

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thirst, the cold, the heat, the loneliness, 
and the degradation

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has nothing to do with a person's
chromosomes.

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It has something to do with the social 
structure they are living in

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that systemically denies them a home.

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To understand more about real 
solutions to homelessness

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and most of our problems today

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please check out Tromsite, The Venus Project 
and The Zeitgeist Movement.

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Thanks for listening guys 
and as always, much love.