this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
612 points (96.1% liked)

memes

16728 readers
1992 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI SlopNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I think your instant assumption about it being done for evil says more about the country you live than it does about Finland, because homelessness doesn't seem to be a big issue in Finland. That's ~5k homeless people in a country with ~5 million people, that's ~0.1% of the population being homeless.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

0.1% is big. I want to see 0%.

[–] galloog1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The US is roughly the same percentage and it was definitely a comment from a US political frame. In the US they are simply more visible as they congregate in cities.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As opposed to here where they congregate to mountaintops?

[–] galloog1@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Certain demographics do not congregate everywhere. Farmers do not congregate in cities.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

But we are talking about US and Finnish homeless who do

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Also 70% of those homeless people are living with friends or relatives