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Taylor J
@Taylor · 4:56

Travel Observation: The Forgotten, The Homeless

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Incredibly dangerous place to live if you had never watched a video about the camps in Vegas and the tunnel systems, it's really remarkable. They have to deal with flooding, and several people have died over the years as a result. But it was interesting to see people from I was at a gathering and there were people from all over the world, all over the country. And their reaction to the presence of homeless in the city was very different from mine

Modern day lepers, or even worse than that? How quickly we forget that everyone is someone’s child, brother, sister, father, mother, cousin, etc.

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Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:00

My thoughts.

And that's where you often find a lot of the vagrants of the city, the urban living conditions, the result of our work, hard hustle, hard culture. And sadly they all have their own stories, some of them mental illness is at the cause as well as poor education, et cetera, et cetera, immigrants and all that sort of stuff. And I remember I had a coworker who said something I found very fascinating
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:26
I have some vocabulary around the complexity of who the homeless population is, but it's still an uncomfortable situation because of what Dewuan talked about, which is like the inconsistencies of people's knowledge base, like they blame, which is really a simplistic way of looking at it. But this is a never ending conversation, and I think the more we have specific stories, the better. Meeting somebody and asking them and telling that their story, I think, is really dignifying, the complexity
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Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 2:40
So I don't know, I just think it's really sad, and I just really wish our government would do more for people who have lost their housing, who've been kicked on the streets then to be worried about, like, other countries and their issues and things like that. But it is what it is. So just from my perspective, I don't really get to see it that often because it's just not a thing. But anyway, I find it heartbreaking. Anyway
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Taylor J
@Taylor · 1:35

@LadyO

Hey, lady. Oh, thanks for replying. Yeah, it's really sad. You know, the society that we live in, at least here in the United States, is very much so. One where your worth is directly attached to your property, the things you own, the assets you have. And the moment that those things go away, you truly do become an invisible person in so many different ways
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Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 3:28

@Taylor

That means that there is a fracture, something's broken in our system, and until it gets fixed, it's going to continue to happen to anyone and everyone, and no one is exempt. So this is the other part of it, I think. Yeah, it's actually quite depressing because I often think to myself, this could be me. I might have a good job now, but what happens if it folds? What happens if I lose the job?
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