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I’m Finnish. Paying for the housing pays itself as it reduces crime and unemployment. It’s a win-win policy
Though the housing project relies heavily on Finland's draft.
@@RixFX211 It did still exist and they did still manage to solve it.
It will indeed be a lot tougher for the US cause they allowed homelessness to get this bad but that doesn't mean the Finnish system won't work for them.
Just that the implementation will be substantially harder.
@@RixFX211 Finland is still a capitalist country. Workers don't get rich, capitalists do.
And the whole myth of the entitled immigrant is just false. Immigrants are almost always less entitled than native born people which makes a lot of sense.
But the idea that in a capitalist system you would be rewarded for your work is pretty hilarious. You don't own the means of production, the capitalists do and they will take as much from you as they can and pay you poverty wages.
The most common cause of immigration is actually labor migrants brought in by large corporations.
@@RixFX211 You mean the capitalists?
Again Finland is a capitalist country. So I don't mind the real taxpayers paying more. It's a much easier way to lift up people than mandate higher wages.
In a capitalist system the taxes of workers don't matter very much. What matters for tax income is how much capital is taxed.
@@RixFX211 "Paxpayer" is a propaganda term. Usually a racist dogwhistle or at least xenophobic in intention. To give people the idea that other people are unworthy of things.
In a capitalist country "taxpayer" is an utterly meaningless term.
Hi from Finland. Housing and health care are human rights, so the USA is doing very poorly with that..
I just Googled it..
Housing is NOT a human right! It's a United nations preference.... If housing was a human right. Then places like America, France, Brazil would not have homeless people.
Medical treatment/care is NOT a human right!
The only human right for medical treatment. Is the right to refuse medical treatment.
Things may be different in other countries but they are not international human right 😉
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Lol at your human rights. You wouldnt make it outside Finland so im genuinely happy you got to born there.
Shame that finnish healthcare is in ruins, along with education.
As a Canadian I can agree with that.
@@TheW89 LOL🤣😂🤣
In Finland we also have rent control. one of the best things in my opinion.
Here in Switzerland we had this approach since the 90's. Our largest City, Zurich, was in the international news for our drug user scene and homeless almost daily before hat. It took about 10 years since they applied the housing first program and they continuedly expanded that. Now it covers not only mental patients, drug users or jobless people, but even families that return from other countries when they hit hard times and such. In Zurich alone there are at least 15 different organisations, all implemented by the government, for different problems. Does it cost tax payer money? Of course, but the benefits outweigh the costs by a huge margin. From tourism to workforce numbers down to hospital care, all sectors benefit from those problems. And most important: the homeless get cared for and many of them improve their lives. For example, in my last job, one of our colleagues was a drug addict. She eft work 2 times a day for 20 minutes to get her methadone injection. Otherwise she was just one of us. She had a home, a job.. all that boosted her self worth and pride, which made it easier to actually keep a job and have a regular life
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
How we treat drug users is one of the issues in Finland. Safe places to use are coming at some point, but there's a strong opposition against it still. Take's time for people to understand that it'll eventually help those users to get help to sober. A large group of those users are victims themselves, but they're too afraid to seek help because of how the society traditionally treats them.
@@Garbox80 thats sadly the same problem we have in norway :/
Its just weird that ppl that have a drugproblem, should'nt get the same help as anybody else would get here o.O
People MUST understand that drug addiction or alcohol addiction is actually a DISEASE! Did they made it for them self by their own choice??? Sure they did!!! But you must remember that there are only few little steps to get addicted. You will try something, you will think this is not harmful to you so you will try again... and there's a very short way to get addicted. Also you should keep in mind that people get into many harash life situations and those addictions are kind of the way in which "they help themselves" to get by.
Is this their fault? HELL NO! It's human psyche. We can take as much as we can take. Those people need help - not rejection!!! If we reject them then our society will be more and more full of such people each and every day. That's not the way.
Real society "fix" people in need and help them - not rejecting them.
Ask yourself a question: If your own kid, your born child was hooligan in school then you would rather try to find a reasons for that and try to help him or just say... "Screw it - we will make another one honey!". It kinda doesn't work that way when it comes to your kids - doesn't it? And those addicted people are also someone's sons and daughters. Think about it this way.
@@Armoure10 drug problem, or choice. I'll answer, choice. NO ONE FORCED them to do drugs the first time.
The social democracies in Europe have a motto: "One for all, all for one!" Social life in Europe does not mean communism, which many Americans confuse with the social market economy. Because that is good for a functioning democracy that consists not only of two parties but of many!
yeah, sadly many of my fellow Americans get this wrong, i like Social Market Economies, Democratic Socialism and such, hell, i would love to have reduced medical bills if it means i pay more taxes
In Finland there is a massive number of summer houses, or cottages, usually by a lake. Checked the number, it is about 1 summer house per 6 homes. So that doesn't interfere with housing first. Of course we are a sparsely populated country.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
Yup trie to do that in the Netherlands.....Doesn't mean we shoudn't follow the finnish example.
Around 60% of land ownership is in private hands(average everyday people, not exactly considered as wealthy), gov. owns 30% and rest fall under municipalities, cities and congregations.
That in mind, private cottages and vacation houses aren't an obstacle.
89,85% of Finland is land, of which 28% are variable wetlands and marshes.... ..it doesn't actually leave a whole lot of land to be used for the public benefit....
And most of the places aren't ment to be lived all year round. Many can't be heated properly in the winter, there most likely isn't indoor toilet. There aren't electricity or running water in some places. Or warm water. Because Finns love to have wooden heated saunas where you heat the water after you get it from the well or lake.
@@dangerousalphabets5267 I lived in our summerhouse in South Porvoo without heating it during the winter while I went to what is now Aalto University, to not cost my parents electricity or heating oil. I just wore outdoor clothes indoors and had heavy blankets. There is a sauna there, too, different building. Water sometimes kept freezing in the kitchen, but there was a propane stove.
At 4:40 I think you're talking about "Maslow's hierarchy of needs". And yes, the bottom rung is physiological needs (air, water, shelter, food etc.) And safety is the rung above it (employment, resources, health, owning some stuff), Then there is love and belonging (friendship, family, sense of community), then there is Esteem (respect, self-esteem, status, strength, freedom) and finally at the very top is self actualization (Being the most you can be). This whole pyramid can be a tough climb, But it seems basically Finland decided nobody needs to be on the first rung in life, so they make sure all citizens are at least on the 2nd rung.
Worth noting that these days Maslow's model is generally only taught because of its historical significance. Deci & Ryan's Self-Determination Theory has replaced Maslow as the dominant model for psychological health.
Neither really has anything to do with Finland's Housing First policy, but I suspect SDT was considered during the program's design.
I'm from Finland, and I think the jump off point for the housing first policy (and lot of other social programs here) is that it's the country's/government's job to protect and take care of its citizens. Why else would we have a country? If not for the country to take care and protect us. The more it can help ALL of us, the better it is.
“The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.” -Thomas Jefferson
@@samisaarela4624 Oh, certainly, that's definitely the starting point. The comment Bara and I are making is about HOW you meet a person's needs. Maslow's theory was that a person needs to have their physical needs met before they can work on psychological issues, so by making prisons that meet those needs the convicts have a better chance to improve themselves. The more recent SDT suggests that psychological and physical needs are equally important and intertwined. I think Finland used this theory based on the fact that the prisons are trying to meet psychological and social needs as well as physical as part of their base design. Social interaction isn't a bonus or reward, but a basic need and right.
It's a culture of selfishness and short-sightedness that prevents anything being done. I'm in the UK, I think we sit between the US and the Scandinavian countries (not just geographically!) in that we aren't as bad as the US but nowhere near as good as the Scandis, trouble is we're heading more towards the US than away from it. And it all stems from the top. They'll try to convince you that that the homeless guy is your enemy, he wants to take your money, while they help themseves to billions from the public purse to share among themselves and their friends.
I'm from Norway and I have to say it's moving the same direction here as well. It's quite sad to see, but it from the top down here too. I may not have all the data, but from where I'm standing it looks like we either have an incompetency problem or a corruption problem from the governing system. Point in case they say there's not enough money for anything and need to cut into welfare systems and hospital funds, but at the same time they increase their own wages by 200k nok. That's about 20k in USD. (Our parliament)
I lived in the UK for almost a decade, left in 2010. The documentaries I've seen about the UK, homeless and declining living standards since then are incredible. It's not like Finland is a paradise. It's very difficult to live on state benefits and there are food banks in Finland too. But certain policies are just better, like free tertiary education and this homelessness policy. And it's not like we do it for socialism; it's actually because it costs less to the society and improves productivity. But then, we are not sick of experts... (sorry, with Brexit I feel that is just one of the key differences in how the state is run).
@@tordlindgren2123 Our government is currently threatening to use the army to break strikes by low paid workers whilst removing the cap on banker's bonuses.
As a Brit, it saddens me to my core to agree with you 😥
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
No one can say that American people isn't good, as long as you have pearson's such yourself Heidi. You are a nice human being, and on your face alone in this videos you are doing everyone can see how much you want to learn and better your self, even with your government makes that really hard for people. Good for you, you have my respect and best wishes from Serbia.🙏🥰😇
Well said. I have said pretty much same kind of thing in Hail Heidis other video comment...and I admit that I have little crush on her, she is so pretty and positive girl..🙂😅
All the best, with ❤️ from Finland
Among other things, it is circumstances like these that declare America a 3rd world country.
When I worked/travelled in the USA I was appalled that people were living on the streets in NYC round the corner from Tiffanys. Its a disgrace for the "richest", "most free" country in the world.
Plenty of jobs here. They could stop doing meth and get to work.
It's not about the tax rate, it's about where that tax money is spent. US has the biggest military budget in the world larger then the next 25 countries combined and 24 of those are our allies
Edit: A large chunk of Veterans are homeless who will wave a flag even when the country has forgotten them.
Do you have any idea how much US taxpayers spend to protect Europeans? if British, German, Dutch or French taxpayers started paying for their own security like any other country in the world, that money could be invested inside the US.
It's also about the political will to do something. Doesn't matter if it's homelessness, socialized health care, paid sick leave, paid maternity and paternity leave, mandatory vacation days, infrastructure, public transportation, responsible policing and pretty much anything else.
Anytime people whine "it's too expensive" what they're actually saying is "I don't care about anyone else."
@@waldomatamoros You can be absolutely sure, if we dissolve NATO the US military spending will not sink, but rise. Americas "business model" is to project power all over the world. For example, without military power the petrodollar will fall instantly.
@@waldomatamoros Do we? Do we protect? Are you sure we protect them. We say we protect them, but I doubt that's how it really works. We always have money for the military budget but the moment we want to care for people in the states you start hearing: "How do we pay for that?" it's never asked about the military.
@@waldomatamoros Euh...those are like single digit %'s.
"Enough money spend on militairy" is like 2%. The US spends still less than 5%.
So let's give that the difference between the US and the least active militairy countries in the EU is about 3%(1.xx vs 4.xx).
That's not insignificant but that's not the money that is going to change anything.
The US spends 17% or so of their GDP on healthcare.
The UK spends less than 10% on theirs. No country in the EU spends more than 12%.
With the difference being that in the UK everyone gets help while in the US it's reserved for a limited amount of people and the rest just has to deal with the open market.
I suggest you start there.
Most European countries also provide pensions from this That's about 40% of Belgian's GDP.
In short, blaming the militairy here is just being silly.
16:08 It's not that Housing first doesn't work, it's just that it cannot work 100%, if the causes that drive homelessness in the first place keep escalating. If housing prices keep rising and wages keep falling, you can be as mentally stable as you want, can work 3 jobs and still end up on the street. No homelessness program can solve that. Housing first is better at solving it, but only if you combat the underlying causes can you solve homelessness completely.
Basically it can solve some forms of homelesness but not others.
The "I work 2 jobs for a total of 55 hours/week and I'm homeless because the rent went up again" isn't going to be solved by anything except tax payers footing the bill.
Which basically is saying that the taxes will go to more profit for companies in a sense.
This is not sustainable and points towards something being broken on a societal level, not a personal one.
@@Londronable _"isn't going to be solved by anything except tax payers footing the bill."_
No, another option (that's been in place here in Germany for ages already) is a cap on rent. In this-and-this area, you can at most demand so-and-so much money per square meter, no matter the demand and how much someone might be willing to pay. Also, if you're already renting, in a lot of cases, the landlord can't just increase the rent on a whim, unless there are certain specific circumstances, it's locked. Of course, if prices for water/electricity/maintenance/... go up, that can be passed on (with some exceptions again), but the pure price just for the rooms per square meter is fixed ("Kaltmiete" in German).
There's an underlying misunderstanding about Housing First that's going around.
Housing First is not a program to end homelessness. It's a perspective on social services.
The Continuum of Care considers housing a _reward_ for "survival well done". You get a job, fix your head, and become productive, you get a roof over your head.
In Housing First, the assumption is that a person who has a safe place to rest will be better at getting a job and fixing their problems, thus reducing the risk of falling back into a situation that causes homelessness.
If social services were a fishing competition, Continuum of Care would be a cheap fishing rod as the prize for catching the biggest fish. Housing First is letting the competitor to borrow the fishing gear until the contest is over, and there's no first prize to win. Maybe a photo of the event to remember it by.
The underlying cause can be cured by unionisation, which was mentioned in this video. In Finland the unionisation percentage is high, but that's not really the driving force. The driving force is that all companies are required to abide by sectoral payment agreements whether or not the employer and the employees are unionised. (Yes, you heard it correctly, in Finland sectoral employers are organised into employer organisations that are authorised to negotiate sectoral pay scales and other benefits with sectoral labour unions.) This takes away the threat by cheap foreign labour, because all companies in Finland are required to abide by sectoral pay scales regardless when the work is carried out in Finland. And the immigration services will check the labour contract to verify that and check it in income declarations (although, there have been cases of forced payback in some ethnic restaurant situations etc., but those people are imprisoned when they come to light).
On the contrary this forces the government to do something about those problems since if they do not it is they who pay for the housing först programs.
What they don’t even Touch on is that a very large percentage of people getting a house also find a job within a year. And they are contributing to the economy again. So you could even see it as an investment
I mean, they covered things like less need for police and such in the video.
The entire thing is an investment that will nearly always gain money on a societal level.
Higher education is cheap here in Belgium but being 21 I got it for free(basically the government wants to REALLY have people get a higher degree). Because the government understands that more people with a higher education means higher income and higher taxes.
So I was basically taken care by the government for 2 years to get a bachelors. I have a higher income, I pay more taxes, everyone wins.
@@Londronable Exactly. It's very typical of the US and the UK to think about big government as excessive expenditure when in fact it is investment in the economy. It gives us knowledgeable workers able to produce more, healthy workers able to produce more and the lack of excessive expenditure on control functions like policing.
By the way, in Finland we have free education (both vocational and academic) and student benefits until a MA degree. Under 25 year olds are not paid an unemployment benefit unless they have a vocational or an academic degree. Why? Because that is the only way that a country like Finland, situated where it is, can compete in the EU and in the global markets. It's not socialism. It's intelligent policy making.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
@@Londronablend thats where Germany fails. Because they are corrupt af. They just bring ppl in, take advantage of em and use them as competition for the local workforce who now has to comply with the low salary (the immigrants will work for. To them it’s good enough).
I got banned from reddit for saying this in a german sub btw.
@@inquisitive6786
The entire reason Schengen exist is to allow that?
You're describing a feature, not a bug, nor corruption for that matter.
It's called basic human decency.
A lot of people in America still think that whoever gets left behind in society just didn't try hard enough, despite the fact that a lot of people never had equal opportunities to begin with. You know the type:
"Why should I pay for your healthcare? Just get a better job."
yet the claim to love jesus and christianity so much.
THIS THIS THIS - MeriKKKa where GREEDY SELFISHNESS HATRED BIGOTRY and the ME ME ME ME attitude reign
I hear that selfish sentiment all the time here. Ugh!
and the funny thing is they would have to pay less in a solidary system. but instead they want to pay more so they dont have to pay for anybody else. its ironic.
Greed. The US is not the shining star on the hill
Hello Hail. I'm from Portugal, although our minimum wage is 730€ a month, many people have a vacation home even with average wages (1000€). Going to the hospital is €5, car insurance €150/year if the car is over 25 years old is €50/year, studying at university cost me €1000 a year. We pay a lot of taxes it's true but in the end it pays off and we live well!
Your videos are fantastic. Good job
Being roumanian i must Say my sallarys its same as yours însurănces car 150 per year but we dont have șo many renting in general roumanian borrow money from bank and they want to have theyer own apartament after several decădes
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
You forget to mention that santa casa is not santa casa. Its a way for government to make money. Do you think that the euro million profit is giving away to the people they need in Portugal. Nope
People need to understand that money in and of itself doesn't mean anything. It is what you get (or not) for it. I'll pay my higher taxes in Finland and get good things for it, calm. No issues with that. Paying even 20 % in the US, I would be mad.
Awareness is the first step. Very well said. Cheers from the Netherlands.
4:37 Yes, you're thinking of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Yep... I remember learning about this in Psych 101 back in '90 in Sydney, Australia!
Happy you reacted to my suggestion. It is a different world outside of US. Higher taxes, but a lot of things that you pay out of pocket are taken care of by the taxes. In the end, we pay less and enjoy more freedom of choice, making our lives more carefree and relaxed. Even if your parents are broke, it doesn't limit your road to quality education, good career and a healthy worklife balance.
To end up on the street homeless in Finland is a long process. Loosing your job, might mean moving to a chaper apartment (there is time to fix things), but you still have a safety net to rely on so you'll survive and can live in a decent place. You really have to f@ck things up before you are on the street (severe drugs abuse or alcoholism combined with untreated mental health issues). It doesn't just happen over night.
Programs like this, tries to help those people off the street, making everybodys life better (less crime in order to survive -> safer environment) and eventually get them "healed" and a part of building the future of the nation.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
Well said. But the average income tax in US is the same as in my country, Norway, 30%.
This video by Second Thought was false, though. There is homelessness in Finland, and neither the government nor large cities claim otherwise. But Second Thought is an extremist channel, so they typically bend the truth to fit their political narrative.
Here in Helsinki, the homeless are provided food, but no permanent housing or shelter (verified from the city web site, under “services for the homelsss”), which is in stark contrast to what the video claimed. That is why you see homeless lounging around in just about the same numbers as before.
@@miloe436 o Yeah you talk about those whit money but go to those lines where they gives People free food!!??
@@miloe436 yeas and in Finland or in the hole Nordic countries Westerlund are paying a lot less then a citisen in usa i a month!! But to say tax to them is toxic!!
It's not that US don't have any solution or can't put 2+2 together,all big corporations and heads of US just won't do that because of All mighty dolar 🦅🇺🇲
Six and a half year homeless. Still the anxiety kicks in when I listen to this video and it's been almost nine years in the past. Worst are the memories of wet snow and hard wind. And I was lucky. As I said all that time: go on and put single moms ahead of me, I'm cool with that, but the longer I have to wait, the worse things are going.
I survived.
Bless you❤️
😢
Been there, done that. But you survived. And that makes you an absolute monster. ( in a good way ) because now you know. No matter what happens, you will survive 👍✌
I love seeing you go through this journey! Can't wait to see what comes next!
The problem with replacing social security nets with direct contribution to charity means that individuals are determining what is important, relatable or cute instead of relying for government experts looking at the big picture and choosing all of the most important projects and have a plan to scale those and reduce costs.
Aye. Some people might even deliberately provide aid in forms someone they don't like can't accept. A particularly low point was a group setting up a temporary soup kitchen and making sure to tell everyone there's pork so muslims need not come. How very christian of them!
I work in social services in Finland, I can confirm sleeping rough is almost non existing nowdays. The Housing First programme even gets support from the political right nowdays, it's proven the programme saves tax money eventually.
Personally... I think it all starts by how kids experience their youth, basicely their formation to adulthood (is that a word?). When you program kids in the US that the world exist of winners and loosers you get a very broken community. There will always be far more loosers than winners. Look at Finland, who score top 3 in de happiest people of the world, dispite their long winters and thus less sunlight. Their schools are the same everywhere. Teachers dont train kids to be good worker drones but good human beings. They are programmed to care. And all kids rich or poor, are in classes together. The US has capitalism which is out of control and unchecked. I predict that, if the US doesnt fix this, they are doomed sooner or later.
Happiest country in the world for 3 years in a row.
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
Probably sooner than later unfortunately.
@@squidcaps4308 Isn't it five times in a row already?
@@Sipu97 Don't know, i really stopped counting after three...
Good morning Heidi. I am so happy to see your UA-cam channel grow so much in the past 2-3 weeks. You deserve all the positive 🥰
I strongly suggest that Heidi runs for president 🥳
Much love from nomad ❤️🇨🇦
Heidi you fixed the low volume! Thank you so much, finally i wont have to get my ears blasted everytime i switch to other video! Youre such a sweetie!
Thnx Heidi for this information!! i´m following your contend in future!
hello heidi, i noticed that too, no apartment no house, sleeping on the street in a tent but the american flag in front of it. i don't know if i would still have confidence in the flag or in the country where i would not get any support for my situation. the whole thing really has a bitter aftertaste.
My first thought seeing this was, that this is a sign saying "We are americans too. Don't forget about us."
Just my personal interpretation.
Federal taxes are lower in the US but you still have State Taxes & Sales Taxes which actually push up your tax rate in America to be one of the Highest in the West on Average
Ty for this vid, and reacting to it. As Fin we,well i, still see alot of things that are wrong in our country.and energy crisis and the fear of war is up now days..i just hope US and whole world see this issue, every country try to help each ppl. we live in same planet after all. ty
Thanks for another great upload!
It's interesting how the most hard-core Christians are usually fiercely against helping the less fortunate among us. That's particularly true in the United States but also here in Europe where "Christian Democrat" parties are always on the right politically and not about helping the needy.
There was this really funny action in Germany where people stole the "C" from the CDU party house and went through Germany with a big "C" that was shit-talking about christian part of the party!
@@Stolens87 Ahah 😁
but being a christian is for many(especially the more well to do) just a label. my experience on vacances is, i always go off the beaten path, and get much more welcome form poor families, than from richer ones.it seems to me the worst part of humanity is also the richest, very few ethical norms there.
@@wout123100 In person those less well off are more hospitable in my experience too, but politically they have often become less friendly to foreigners though I dare say this will differ by country.
Heidi you should be a politician you need more people like you maybe things would get better 😢 we have a lot of homeless in the uk relying on charity many have mental health issues x 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Best youtube channel!
Many thanks for all the great videos.
Best regards from Sweden
Thank you so much! Hello! 👋
Finland's solution is really smart, because if the government pays for the housing and their needs, the homeless people will likely get a job and start making money. And then it will return with taxation to the government, so they just gain on this.
In the end it is net gain for government, but in short term it's very expensive. All decisions by politicians are aimed for long term results for current problems, so everything takes time.
Yay Finland 😊🇫🇮
If you think that bunk bed thing looked like a prison, don't look up things like "Finland open prisons" or "Bastoy prison Norway".
You did a great job raising awareness. I am from Finland and live on my boat at King Harbor, Redondo Beach, CA or nap on my couch in my office in Manhattan Beach, or crash on some friend''s couch. Last I was in Venice Beach there were homeless people everywhere and putting that much effort for housing does not leave them many resources to work, they pretty much need to stay there to not get their stuff stolen. I think that hurts the overall economy.
Taxes aren't really lower here if you count health insurance, education costs, child care.
Finland mentioned, subbed! Greetings from Finland!
Homelessness in Japan has been decreasing year on year from about the turn of the century. The current figure, if their government's figures are a representation of reality, is currently about 3,000 (three thousand) homeless people in a total population of about 125,000,000 (0.0024%).
Somewhat a special case though as they have a negative population growth - they have a problem filling houses so they don't fall apart.
In the case of Japan the definition of "homeless" and the way many choose to "solve" it are major contributing factors to that. It's a super messed up system.
Hello from finland:) here in Finland education is free and health care is almost free and the economy is good so the only thing that keeps things going are taxes
4:40 From bottom to top: physiological needs > safety > love & belonging needs > esteem > self-actualization
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Yes, we should watch the vid on de-commodification of housing, cuz that is a huge part of the solution. Thanx for covering this all important topic!
There are few reasons why these policies work or even take place in Finland: First of all we historically don't have class society and there's no huge gap between poor and rich people. Schooling is free of charge even in universities so your background doesn't hold you down of reaching your goals. Many of our leaders come from modest income or even broken homes. Of course there are many problems like everywhere in the world but these principles have been working quite well for this sparsely populated northern country with rather harsh weather conditions.
This is a very complicated topic that doesnt have simple answers - however one of the reasons this sort of system doesnt work in the US is due to other systems not being set up to support it, in Social Democracies all the state services are set up to prop up one another - You have easy access to work since you have affordable public transport, you can go to a doctor when you have a problem thanks to public healthcare and recieve a quiality aid. It all works together to pull people back into normal life.
I have to pointout one thing though - the "our taxes are lower" idea is actually a political trick in the US. That is what they make you believe to keep you from complaining about your quality of life. For comparison, I come from Czechia - not a first world country at all - yet I have access to better quality healthcare, several safety nets should I get in trouble, completely free education from Elementary to University and was able to avoid taxes for as long as I was studying, as students are not only free of paying taxes but they actively provide tax relief for the family. Despite all of these benefits I dont pay anywhere close to what people in US pay for their taxes(including necessity spending such as insurance). Not only that but should I be discontent with the tax levels I can more to another country and provided I live there for more than 6 months, that will be where I pay taxes (A person from the US is oblidged to pay US taxes on top of any other taxes so long as they are US citizen and not a citizen in any other country - meaning that if you would decide to live in lets say Netherlands, you have to pay both).
Admittedly since this includes things like private insurance - if we go by pure "money to goverment" you are like 6% lower but while my taxes constantly give back to me, yours are just a sort of black hole - you pay them and you will likely never see most of that money again.
Dude czechia is easy comparable to us Germans. Even with france spain etc. I Studied for a year near Brno. The city is equal as Great as Cologne, while being cheaper.
@@strauchs95 I mean I agree on some level but we are still a Second World country and that probably isnt gonna go away any time soon. We still have corruption problems and economy broken by communism.
@@FuFightersStudio hm don't worry it will get there. I just wanted to share my passion towards your country as it's really amazing in my opinion.
The US has the money but they keep writing the Department of Defense a blank check!
US Citizens need to pay federal taxes from foreign income on income above ~$110k and even above that it's the difference between the US tax rate and the country they live in, so there is NO double taxation.There are not many European countries with lower tax rates than the US... Monaco and Switzerland obviously are.
If a US citizen moves to Netherlands for example he/she doesn't need to pay anything to the US as NL has higher income tax rates. Let's say you live in Florida and you make less than $50,000 a year, with all the deductions you end up paying less than 10%. In the Western and Northern Europe you would typically pay ~25%.
US incomes are also much higher on average (for the educated) than in most of the world. Lawyers, doctors, dentists, senior engineers on the US coast cities make easily $300-$500k per year. In Europe typically one third of that.
Finland, our eastern Brother Country, is not only beautiful nature, but naturally 'beautiful' (loving and tough) people. which, among other things, defeated the Soviets when 'they' cowardly attacked Finland. And; I (still) LOVE the charm of your (sometimes) "dull/lazy eye" as it sometimes shows in your videos. AND! (still) Without being ashamed, or sexist, I think you're pretty damn good looking. I like your openness and spontaneity.
Greetings from an old Swede.
Since you're on to Finland, it would be interesting to see you react to a video on education in Finland.
@HailHeidi, that was a poetic moment at 7:00 - when you realized the context in which the flag was risen. That they still believed in the system that betrayed them. I think you might be right. It might be a cult. Not just a culture.
7:00 a 🙈moment for me holy moly
I don't think they raise this flag for patriotic resons at all. This sure is meant as critizism on the US. Don't you think?
@@dnocturn84 I imagine that if it was truly criticism it would be more overt.
@@RonnyWilhelmsen1001 I'm not sure, if people in the US are allowed, to put a disfigured flag of the US on display. Even if this would be possible, I bet this would just trigger hatred by other patriotic Americans, instead of creating any kind of successful critizism. But sure, I can't look into peoples' head. Maybe they are really just that stupid and fanatically patriotic, to praise the flag of what made them homeless in the first place.
@@dnocturn84 we dont know ,. you have to ask them.
You are thinking of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
the goverment in Finland also subsidizes cheap loans to build affordable housing and to get the loan you need to fulfil certain criteria that gurantees succifient quality of housing in the affordable homes.
Dude! You’re awesome!
The US was a driving force behind the Adequate Housing program in UN. Just chose to not implement it
A big problem in the US is that many solution are state based rather than federally based. If California adopts a housing first policy, then all the homeless from surrounding states will move there and simply overwhelm the system. Policies like this must be across the board, and then partisan politics steps in and throws a spanner in the works.
Are we sure people homeless people would move if that happens ?
Homeless people barely move throughout Europe despite each country having different strategies on that matter and different homelessness rate.
I really don't think it has to be across the board.
And even if it was the case and that people would pile up in one state, it woudn't change a thing.
It would simply first start with a set amount of spots, and deny the others, and then slowly extend from there.
@@PierreMiniggio although I'm not American, I have seen evidence of homeless people moving from colder states to warmer ones, I think Europe is different because of language difficulties and accessing federal services that would be available in the US regardless of what state they're in.
I live in the Netherlands and I visited friends in West Virginia in a small town... a forgotten coal mining town. Walmart and Lowe's and such set up shop down the road and stores in the town closed and never got replaced by anything. It is as though only 1 in every 100 houses has a family but that's not true. But the streets are falling apart, houses are falling apart, there is one dollar store and that's it... and, when I told my friends "this is the sad side of america" they didn't get it. That, even the smallest towns in the Netherlands are thriving.
Taking care of a problem is always cheaper than not taking care of it.
In Switzerland, only 0.02% of the population is homeless. The question is, are government policy-makers interested in the well-being of the people, or in investing as little as possible and squeezing the maximum out of them?
Going with a housing first approach doesn't automatically solve the problem. If there isn't enough housing, you cannot house people.
I live in Denmark, in a municipality (about the normal average on homelessness) that does housing first, but we still have homeless people. In my municipality of 53,053 (2022 survey) we have 67 homeless people as per the 2022 count (done in week 6). This includes 8 street sleepers, 1 in a "night heating room" (I have no idea what this is called in English), 42 in homeless shelters, 1 in a hotel, 10 are couch surfers, 3 in hospital and 2 unclassified.
And apparently there aren't 67 vacant AFFORDABLE homes in the municipality. The only way to fix this is through political action - the government (local or national) needs to be willing to push for and guarantee loans for more affording housing to be built, because developers wants to build stuff that will get them a LOT of money.
In my municipality, homelessness is at 1.26/1,000 people. Compared to the US's 600,000/330,000,000 which is 1.81/1,000 people. That's 44% more homelessness in the US than my municipality.
Having friends or family sleep on your couch doesn't make them not homeless - it just changes their category.
As the video pointed out, pretty much all the US's homeless people are street sleepers. If we only go by street sleepers, the numbers for my municipality drops off a cliff. That's 0.15/1,000 - the US' numbers are 12 times that.
@Martin Schou
Yeah the homelessness statistic numbers you ever see about the US are going to be people who fit into the "street sleepers" & "homeless shelters" categories you listed for Denmark. You should also know that the numbers are a one-night point-in-time count. At least when it comes to homeless shelters the numbers do exist for total year numbers which in 2018 amounted to 1.4 million over the course of the year.
Your "couch surfers" category is what would be considered over here "doubling up" & the only official data on that which exists would be from the Department of Education which collects & submits the number of public school students [roughly from the age of 5 through 18,] who report to the schools that they are homeless, including those that are considered as "doubling up." The most recent data I could find was that in the 2018-2019 school year 1 million students were "doubling up" for the living conditions. These are just the children, not their family & is not any child who did not self-report this.
There are no other official measurements of this category, but studies using whatever data does exist to try & estimate the number of people doubling up usually use data collected from the annual American Community Survey (ACS) that are set certain criteria to try & distinguish those are homeless & "doubling up" vs. other categories of people [like roommates who all contribute to rent or whatever costs.] The specific study I'm looking at limited it to people who met both conditions relating to income & one related to household characteristics. individuals whose income was at or below 125% of a geographically adjusted poverty threshold for an individual who lived in a household whose household income met the same condition but for household income instead of the individual one. Were either:
A) Unrelated to the householder excluding; an unmarried partner or their children, roommates/housemates, & roomers/boarders.
B) Relatives who are adults [or their children,] & children-in-laws living in a crowded situation [more than 2 people per bedroom,] with certain exclusions that are too much to include in a comment but the exclusions are meant to take out people in the mentioned categories but for various reasons the household head has taken responsibility for their needs.
That specific study based on data from ACS study gathered throughout 2019 with a result of there being 3,717,589 people in the US who were "doubling up." I should not that the ACS, while not exactly like the HUD one-night point-in-time counts, they are point-in-time surveys done once a year with roughly 3.5 million households. It is best described as like an annual mini-Census. They are all mailed to houses at the same time, then people with the Census Bureau have to track people down if they don't receive a response by a certain date or if the response is incomplete.
Using the numbers you used for the per 1,000 calculations & adjusting it with the data I mentioned the official numbers of homeless + DoE "Doubling Up" public school students results in 4.85 per 1,000 people or 285% more than in Denmark. Using the official homeless numbers + the ACS-estimated "Doubling Up" numbers results in 13.08 per 1,000 people or 938% more than in Denmark.
Housing first in Finland means there are organizations that practically buy homes with hard cash or build them and make them affordable, meaning that the rent collected is below the market rate to start with and the municipality or state will pay that if needed. What this leads to in theory is higher prices in the open market, but that only makes moving to a bigger home a bit more expensive, which is a smaller problem than homelessness. But you are right, you need housing projects - if there are less homes than needed the problem cannot be solved.
Maslow's Hierarchy (pyramid) of Needs is what you're thinking of.
Swedish here. I love these videos and I to think the make difference. I read so many posts from US citizens all over internet where they rant about the bad working conditions in the US and just about everything mentioned in this video. Which made me glad that they they covered Unionizing in this video. Many of those US people I mentioned also seem to feel trapped by the system. Squashed between their needs to survive and the companies towering above them.
But there is a way to be on top of the companies and that is Unions. Scandinavia excel at this and the result is a people who just don’t have to worry that much about life. It won’t be easy, but I think that a strong wave of unionizing are one of the few ways the US people can influence their own situation.
Again, a lot of wealthy people profit from misery.
And the people at the top get the most from normal people's labors.
fun fact you as an american pay more taxes in total than what i do as an swede also Inside All Of Will Smith's Houses by TheRichest
4:55 You're thinking of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It starts at the bottom with Basic Survival needs like food, water, warmth, rest, then Safety needs, Belongingness and Love needs, Esteem needs, and finally, Self-Actualization.
I love you, You are so informed
The US' official stanbce towards its people, and may particularly your most vulnerable ones, can be illustrated by the following: There’s Only One Country That Hasn’t Ratified the [UN] Convention on Children's Rights: US.
This obviopusly doesn't mean that all countries are very good at adhering to the convention. But apparently, the US is not even willing to commit to trying - for the children. Which indicated what the attitude is to adults. And not only adults are homeless.
The sad concluysion seems to be that the US CAN do this but WON'T.
I stopped the video at 5:50 to koment on you saying taxes are lower in USA. True, but with all you need to buy, like health insurance, and other stuff you got to pay fore, that is baked into what we paid in taxes, we got more money left than you from USA. And if we get sick, we do not get a bill from the hospital.
Thats something that US people tend to forget, we get SO much for our taxes that US people have to pay for later on.
So putting everything together the US people usually pay the same or usually more then people with high taxes because our has taxes already covered it.
Exactly what Americans save in taxes, they lose twofold by paying for profit companies for it.
Dane here, and i pay my taxes, with a big ass smile, on my face... people in the states, gets NOTHING, for their taxes, where as i, get a LOT for mine...
sweden (and i assume finland aswell as it is a neighbour country with basicly the same socxial structure) have a pretty large "sommer home" population aswell (many has their houses livable and isolated all year round) so i rhink it is a pretty good amount houses that sees people living in them for perhaps 3 months/year
Yes having a summer cottage is very common in both Finland and Sweden.
The pyramid mentioned is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
I would really like you to react to "Volker Pispers history of USA and terrorism 1 of 5" . It is a bit of 5 pieces (total of about an hour) of a German political "comedian" he made around 2010. Don't worry it is well subtitled easy to follow. A few other US youtubers already reacted to it. It is very informative, well researched and presented by him that makes you laugh with having a gut feeling that you actually should cry about what happened the last decades in US foreign politics and other topics that might interest you.
Government should take control of the out-of-control housing prices , maybe puts a limit to how much a house costs (as well as its size) per area or per state... but that wouldn't work in USA I guess, since the land aren't owned by the state but individual/corporates.
It could work. In some places in France, rent prices are caped. And yet houses and apartment buildings are not owned by the goverment.
It's new here, so future will tell us how well that works.
In Finland there are two parallel systems: private where the rent or apartment price depends on supply and demand and public, where you can get a home on a regulated rent if you fall below certain income level. In both categories the rent may be subsidized depending on your situation.
A rent cap in the private sector would likely mean it gets less profitable to build new homes. The money would then be invested in something else, worsening the housing situation. The general idea in Finland is to let the capitalist free market work for highest possible profit to balance supply and demand, and then just take care of those who cannot manage in the system. To some point it means that tax money flows to private profits, but it is impossible to calculate the results - more profits means more housing, which again lowers prices.
Here in the uk, 227,000 are homeless according to UK government statistics, however, only a small number are sleeping in the street..most are staying in shelters or bed and breakfast
The difficult thing about implementing a Housing First system is that there's a period of time when you need *both* systems. To get social housing, first you need to buy the facilities to provide social housing. (Ideally these are apartments or other forms of normal housing - in my hometown here in Canada we've been housing homeless in old motels that have been struggling to get by for ages...and because we're half-assing it, we've not been giving these folks the additional support that is step 2 and beyond, and it's...problematic as a result.) But the point is, you need to be spending money buying or building social housing structures and getting them ready for occupancy. This takes some time and a large amount of money up front.
While you're doing this, the homeless people are still on the street, suffering from all the issues they currently suffer from and needing emergency shelters during bad weather, suffering from medical issues, needing a greater-than-normal level of policing, and, importantly, just needing access to food and water. (Doesn't matter how palatable your city's tap water is if you don't have access to a tap to get it from, and a lot of these folks have to finagle ways to even manage that.)
In short, to get a Housing First system up and running, you need government (or very rich philanthropic sponsors) with enough will to finance both programs. It's a huge investment in the long term future, and, sadly, the political will is often just not there. Especially when you're working on a short term election cycle: Canada has enough issues investing in the future with our (up to) 5 year election cycles - I'd imagine American Congresspeople with their 2 year terms would tend to be extremely short-sighted. (Because politicians, by and large, want job security too, and their jobs are dependent on them continuing to win elections. It sucks, but it's entirely understandable.)
Here in Norway the government also provides housing for every citizen unable to provide it themselves. Just a little apartment, but it's their own apartment and not something they have to share with others. We do have a little bit of homelessness here, but that's voluntary homelessness. Every person has the right to get help from the government to get their own little apartment, and social services will help them with some money for power, rent and basic necessities. Some people, often addicts, choose not to accept this, and ofc nobody will force them. But there still are shelters and other services available for them if they need food, or some warm clothing, or a bed for the night, if they choose to go there. And ofc, every citizen has the right to free healthcare if they need it.
Finland does that also.
Thanks Heidi for this video, you have such a kind heart! ❤ The US is much, much richer than Finland. Your country could do it. The streets would be much safer. For your inspiration here's another interesting video regarding how Finland makes arrangements so that winter cycling is possible and many people actually do it: ua-cam.com/video/Uhx-26GfCBU/v-deo.html
Politicians: "help the homeless? but how we could pay for $700+ billion dollar military?!"
When I moved from Germany (which has a homelessness rate higher than the US) to Switzerland (which has a homelessness rate lower than Finland) I was stunned by this difference. The societies are quite similar, and if anything is different, Switzerland is more business-friendly and has less unionization and lower taxes. I think the key is the realization that while homeless people are kind of neutral to the economy, crime and drugs are expensive problems to deal with. Housing people who can't pay the rent doesn't solve all the associated problem, but it is the decent thing to do, and it pays for itself by bringing down the crime rate. Of course it helps, that Switzerland provides drug addicts with ways to live with their addiction without committing crimes, because it is the decent thing to do and it pays for itself by bringing down the crime rate.
Try to look up Taxes in Denmark VS US in a video from the channel TravelingYoung As a spoiler, The (real)Tax is higher in US, even tough the Tax in Denmark is around 50%, but if you in the US also has to pay for education (you are even paid to take an education), healthcare, childcare e.g., then you pay more in the US
Doubling rent?
Holy crap, thats rough.
We really do live in different worlds.
I just got an *apology letter* from the company owning my appartment building.
Theyre raising the rent of my three room appartment from 520 to 540 dollars.
They explained how they thought this was a really steap increase but due to the global inflation everything has become much more expensive.
Saying that if we just hold out and stick togeather, hopefully inflation will go down and they can lower the rent next year.
Without the letter, I honestly wouldnt even have known they raised it.
You should React more to the northern countries 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇧🇻🇩🇰 🙌
Thank you coments . Pertti from Finland .
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Hi and thx for your videos. Very interesting. I read your channel description and you say, that the roots came from hail hydra from the mavel movie. As a native German speaker I would say that they don't say hail in the movie but heil from the German language. And this was part of the nazi greeting 'Heil Hitler', which correlates to the movie, where the hydra is a symbol for the nazis. So far my interpretation.
A few months ago, in a documentary about homelessness in the US, I saw families with young children sleeping in their cars, in fenced parking lots. 😭😭Heartbraking
Sadly, nowadays street homeless are drugs addicts, and they are addicted to cocktail of nasty chemicals such as fentanyl, horse tranquilizer, elephant tranquilizer, sedative benzo, rat poison, nitazenes chemicals, P2P based meth, wasp dope, and other nasty stuff. That is in the pills they smoke all day long. They are quickly damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair. If they are aggressive, screaming, talking gibberish, talking to imaginary people, they are on meth and wasp dope. One dosage of P2P based meth causes paranoia and schizophrenia after only one dosage. Street addicts gradually destroy everything around themselves.
Heidi if you keep going with these videos you'll migrate to Europe or become a socialist, or both. :)
and the pyramid of stuff you mentioned at 4:40 is 'Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs'.
Current situation in Finland is that around 4341 people are homeless at the moment. And from these homeless around 60% live in Helsinki (capital of Finland) metropolitan area. When we speak homeless in Finland, it doesn't mean street homeless, it means that these people live in temporary housing, not on the street.
There is people who doesn't live in temporary housing, but actually live in the street, but we don't speak hundreds now, it's actually more like tens. And from these people who live in the street and not in temporary housing, it doesn't necessarily mean that they have been denied access to temporary housing, it usually means that they have done this choice by themselves and don't want to go in temporary housing but rather sleep in the street.
Its actually against the law in Finland to abandon anyone who need help when situation is life threatening, so everyone will and should get help one way or another. And every Finnish citizen has right to get medical care, mental health care, and any kind of rehabilitation care, and it's covered by government, so no one have excuses not to seek help, no one is turned around at the door and in to their death, cause it's against the law to abandon anyone In life threatening situation.
In 1980's there was around 20,000 homeless in Finland, so the number has gone down a bit since then, but still not enough, all those current about 4341 homeless are still too many. In Finland we think that having a place to live is both a human right and a basic right. Maybe it's not though to be like this globally, but inside Finnish borders we like to think so, and we do take as much care about our citizens as possible.
Of course the system is not perfect and someone always drops between the cracks, but this is something we really try to avoid. And someone who has travelled the world, I must say that system in Finland is pretty darn good, actually amazingly good, but still I or anyone in Finland never thinks that our system is perfect or better than anyone else, its just different, and there is always things to improve and to get better at.
You should react to more Second Though! His videos are incredibly informative.
Looking at how more and more people have to live in the US I have come to the conclusion that slavery has never ended!
The big difference is only that there now are also millions of white slave, but they only are not aware of it and so they still fight white against black, instead of poor against rich.
Why does world outside of the Nordics look like a post apocalyptic nightmare?
it doesnt really,,, maybe you need to go on some holliday travels???
You've come a long way in the last few weeks.
I hope that whoever is your employer knows how smart you are. The way your brain work fit really well for someone within Human resource. Being able to remember Maslow and connect it with a video about homelessness tells me that you are intelligent.
it the same i Denmark no one has to sleep in the rough, you get the offer of a home and help with addictions.
Hell Yeah, more Second Thought! I'm a patreon on his podcast The Deprogram with two other political youtubers Hakim and Yugopnik. I recommend all of them and their podcast, really eye-opening stuff
It is the Marslows Pyramid of need you are talking about. It covers why basic needs have to be covered prior to you being able to self realise. Tey to look it up - it is fascinating.
Ever heard of the "Rule of Three" in the context of wilderness survival (and therefore general survival)? As in "You can survive 3 *minutes* without air or in icy water, 3 *Hours* without shelter in a hostile environment (except icy water), 3 *days* without water and 3 *weeks* without food"? OK, it's not literally *three* of these things - you'd actually be severely impaired after only a minute without oxygen or in icy water or after a day without water etc - but it gives an easy-to-remember indication of *priority*: Air and/or protection from freezing then shelter then water then food. Shelter is second only to the very air we breathe and getting/staying out of icy water.
"We'll give you a place to live when you stop being chronically depressed" is stupid when the lack of a home is a major contributing factor to the chronic depression.
Point of a society is, that one person doesn't need to survive on his own. You can go and live in the wilderness and be on your own, but most people don't want to live their whole life alone, not specialize to a craft and not have anyone help you up if you happen to break your leg. It's part of basic humanity to help a fellow human in trouble, if you can.
1:40 i am glad my home state of Ohio is still on the lower end of pricing, i live in a suburb just outside of Cincinnati with my mom, the USA really needs to take some notes from the Finns both in dealing with Homelessness and in the Prison system (with some possible tweeks here and there mainly for the prison system)
6:50+ I was watching the video and saw the US flag raised over by the tents and was thinking "somethings weird about that they raising that flag even the regime thinks they're trash" not that there's nothing wrong to love your home country no matter what and show it by raising the flag but still. And then 2 seconds later you grabbed to same topic heh. Greetings from Finland
I think the core of sustainability simply means preferring long term solutions instead of making short term profit. And you can apply this principle to almost every aspect in life. In addition, there are no losers in this, because the long term profit often is higher or more desirable.
Taxes and healthcare costs are actually higher in the USA than in Finland. Also economics of scale makes things easier in the US.
Or should make 🙄
4:45 Maslow's pyramid of needs.
I also recommend their podcast "Deprogram" on UA-cam
I was four years homeless in Finland.
I got my flyticket all over the world like 4 years.