How do you survive winter during a pandemic without a place to live, plus money for heat and clothes and food? How does the human dimension of all this get so lost? This is not about economics; it’s about human suffering and we should say so.

Feb 1, 2021 · 7:35 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
How? You fuck hedge funds with your pittance the last guy gave you.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Here in Delaware you can apply to check into a former Sheraton which has been converted into a homeless shelter.
Replying to @marwilliamson
we can say it until we're blue in the face. if they're not incentivized to listen, nothing we say matters.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Human pleasure and suffering is in no small part a component of economics inasmuch as scarce resources affect these outcomes.
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Marianne, please understand that they DO NOT care. That understanding is the basis for future action. Unless hurt in the pocketbook ala WSB, we will be ground to dust. #GeneralStrike
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Easy, we made everyone believe it was that person’s shortcomings and poor decisions therefore their own fault.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Chill, do you hang with the homeless? Have you ever?