empty, shiny colossals

Al­ways dis­heart­en­ing to see peo­ple come up with a nev­er-end­ing list of rea­sons why emp­ty state build­ings can’t be used as tem­po­rary shel­ter for home­less peo­ple even though do­ing noth­ing and let­ting them live in the streets is a thou­sand times worse.

A con­ver­sa­tion I’m fol­low­ing on Red­dit start­ed as a re­sult of the takeover of a ho­tel down­town ba­si­cal­ly boils down to “but prop­er­ty val­ues,” and hon­est­ly if that’s their #1 con­cern I won­der what they think is al­ready hap­pen­ing to all the street cor­ners, va­cant build­ings, and land where home­less have gone to live. 

It’s re­al­ly just about push­ing peo­ple to the far­thest edges of so­ci­ety where they aren’t seen or heard, with­out nary a con­sid­er­a­tion for any of the short or long term consequences.

Of­fice build­ings are some of the most colos­sal wastes of space and they cost the gov­ern­ment an ob­scene amount of money. 

The vast ma­jor­i­ty of jobs can now be done from home and the ben­e­fits of do­ing so out­weigh the costs. It’s out­ra­geous that we are cut­ting people’s salaries and leav­ing peo­ple on the streets when mon­ey is be­ing paid to keep the light and heat on in big shiny build­ings that are most­ly empty.

Also, there’s some dip­shit on there jizzing about how seiz­ing prop­er­ty equates to seiz­ing the lives of the peo­ple on that prop­er­ty and if I had a pro­file I’d be tempt­ed to say, 

“Tell me how you feel about what we did to in­dige­nous peo­ple, then …”

but I al­ready know the an­swer I’d get.

 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2021 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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