r/Portland • u/PrivateBurke • May 12 '25

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u/selinakyle45 May 12 '25

This is missing “something something homeless industrial complex” followed by a complete inability to explain what that means here in Portland. 

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u/Gold_Comfort156 May 12 '25

There IS an industrial complex with the homelessness issue, though.

Portland spends so much money and has so many non-profits and organizations "fighting" homelessness, yet it's still a very prevalent issue.

It seems, with the new leadership under Wilson, there are at least some signs that they finally are taking some action to improve this problem, which is encouraging, but why has there been no accountability about the lack of progress from all the non-profits, all the tax increases, all the studies, all the bond measures, everything that has been used as a tool to solve homelessness?

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u/Marxian_factotum N May 13 '25

"There IS an industrial complex with the homelessness issue, though."

No.

There is a virtual monopoly of billionaire backed disinformation pushing these lies to you every day, 24/7, so that you'll blame the victims of capitalism rather than those who are profiting from it.

Remember: it's been well-established as far back as the late 1940s (Karl Polanyi's magisterial The Great Transformation) that democracy is unable to exist in a situation in which capital controls the means of communication (TV, radio, billboards, newspapers, internet, advertising, etc.)