# LA Homeless **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149 "2019-06-07T00:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/61 "2019-06-10T23:47:42Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I’m not in the habit of disclosing what I may or may not do for the underprivileged. I’m not rich. If I was, I would certainly do so, in the hopes that other rich people would follow suit. I wouldn’t drive by the homeless in LA to my $12 million mansion. AKA “I don’t do anything for the homeless.” ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/62 "2019-06-10T23:53:45Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > AKA “I don’t do anything for the homeless.” You can think that. I don’t care. I’m also not on TV gushing over how rich I am. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/63 "2019-06-11T00:01:58Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > [Rihanna named Harvard's Humanitarian of the Year](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/02/23/rihanna-named-harvards-humanitarian-year/98291958/) > Rihanna does an awful lot. This thread is ridiculous. Sure. If you think it’s cool to buy a $6.8 million house in Beverly Hills while there is a homeless crisis in LA, then yeah, you would think this thread is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/64 "2019-06-11T01:22:18Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Sure. If you think it’s cool to buy a $6.8 million house in Beverly Hills while there is a homeless crisis in LA, then yeah, you would think this thread is ridiculous. To the folks starving in Bangladesh, where ever you live is essentially the same as a mansion. Get off your high horse and accept that you’re just as much a part of the problem as the people you’re incoherently ranting about. You just do less and complain more. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/65 "2019-06-11T01:28:07Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > To the folks starving in Bangladesh, where ever you live is essentially the same as a mansion. Get off your high horse and accept that you’re just as much a part of the problem as the people you’re incoherently ranting about. I agree. It’s a moral failing that I live with everyday. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/66 "2019-06-11T02:10:07Z")
manson1972 writes: \> I’m also not on TV gushing over how rich I am. I don’t very often see celebrities on TV gushing about how rich they are. What I see are these so-called entertainment news shows in which the hosts gush about how rich celebrities are. I change channels whenever such programs come on. They aren’t actually very much about real entertainment news. They don’t have any analysis of why certain film or TV production companies are doing well or going broke. They don’t have any analysis of how the themes of movies and TV shows have changed over the years. They have little to say about the people who are really in charge of TV and movies, the executives of the production companies. What they have are superficial stories about the lead actors in TV shows and movies, which includes what cars they own. Such shows are as superficial and as honest as those tabloids you see in the supermarket checkout lines. Again, if this kind of superficiality bothers you, change the channel. Watch TV shows about political and economic matters, which are going to actually change how we will be living in the future, while how an actor spends his money isn’t going to change much of anything. ---
**Author:** ![neutro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@neutro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149/67 "2019-06-11T02:46:22Z")
Solving homelessness is far more about political will than anything else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/la-homeless/835149.md?page=3)