I can personally guarantee that my experience there far outweighs your google-fu, yes.
ETA: Afghanistan is not in the Middle East. 
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So then everyone who has ever been to the Middle East is wrong and you alone are the expert?
I’m going to make the same claim about Texas. In the 22 years I was there, I never encountered a homeless person. Based on my experience, I can categorically state that Texas has solved the homeless problem. 
Again, Afghanistan is not in the Middle East.
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I’m simply making the point that you are one person with limited exposure. You are in no position to state that Afghanistan or any other country has no homeless problem. Google might not be your friend but it certainly is my friend. Homelessness is a problem in every country on God’s green earth. Whether or not you choose to acknowledge that simple fact is irrelevant.
Both of us have lived in Texas, one of us has experienced Afghanistan.
I get it though, it was hard for me too to realize I didn’t know a damn thing about Afghanistan until I was there. All that google-fu turned out to be worthless in that case.
Actually I don’t believe you do. But we will simply have to agree to disagree.
Doesn’t matter what you believe. 
That being said, I apologize for not noticing that your post was accidentally quoted in my statement to @zantax . I never intended to trigger anyone. Afghanistan is just a magical place that people simply cannot comprehend under normal circumstances.
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Duh. Nothing is one hundred percent and it’s ridiculous when people use it as a talking point.
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Well you can deny robots are coming to take jobs if you like, it won’t stop it from happening.
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No it isn’t, in some countries you just need scrounge up some supplies and cobble one together. That doesn’t mean zero homeless but it does mean far fewer of them. If we can print a house for 4k or less I see no reason everyone shouldn’t have one if they are in need of a place to live. Hell at that price point we can afford to have a bunch of them on standby just in case.
So what has really changed then???
I never denied robots are taking jobs. 
Where exactly will those so-called cheap houses sit? Land isn’t free.
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Plenty of places in America, even in urban areas where it doesn’t cost much. So fine up the price tag to 7k, but then I would counter that the price of printing them will most likely continue to drop as that tech scales up.
So basically you seem to be saying that inner city slums can be expanded at little to no cost? And you must realize these areas will be magnets for some of the seediest individuals America has to offer. They will be a cesspool of depravity with very high crime rates.
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Are you under the impression people behave better when they are homeless and hungry? Odd.
The homeless represent a very small percentage of our population. They are a nuisance, nothing more.
With your offer of free income and housing to a large percentage of our population, you are talking about the herding of those freeloaders into ever increasing inner city slums. Historically those areas have had high crime rates. What you are proposing will only exacerbate an already tenuous situation.
And back to the homeless. There are already programs the homeless can take advantage of. Many choose not to avail themselves of those programs for whatever reason. I’m kind of guessing the offer of free income and housing will not take them off the streets in large numbers.
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They don’t take those offers because they come with strings attached. And there around 600k homeless in the US. And they are all eligible for a variety of programs that no doubt far exceeds the cost of printing them a house and providing them a basic income. All of them are eligible for medicaid as well and leaving them homeless increases their medical costs. Their life expectancy by the way is 50 years as opposed to our 76. It’s unconscionable to leave them homeless if we could build them a home for under 10k.
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A ■■■■ ton of people are no longer destitute.
So there will be no strings attached with free housing and income? They will voluntarily move into an inner city slum with high crime? I’m betting they won’t.
