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How American Homeless Stay Wired
theodp writes "San Franciscan Charles Pitts has accounts on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. He runs a Yahoo forum, reads news online and keeps in touch with friends via email. Nothing unusual, right? Except Pitts has been homeless for two years and manages this digital lifestyle from his residence under a highway bridge. Thanks to cheap computers, free Internet access and sheer determination, the WSJ reports that being homeless isn't stopping some from staying wired. 'You don't need a TV. You don't need a radio. You don't even need a newspaper,' says Pitts. 'But you need the Internet.'"
What's disgusting me is that you're talking about it like it's acceptable for there to be no housing safety net and no welfare safety net. "I'm homeless, but it's OK, I can find a shower and net access." It's not OK. A society which doesn't look after its homeless, it's sick or it's unemployed is NOT civilised. Homelessness, regardless of who is "to blame" is an inhumanity, the abandonment of some citizens by those better off. I NEVER want to live in the USA and I'm so glad I don't live there. It makes my so angry that wealth and technology are more important than social justice.
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Oh shit, a wild specimen of a pedantic syntaxologist!
You just got troll'd!