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Originally Posted by Vancouver_Highrise
It seems like Vin has a lot of opinions but likely has done nothing to help support or make changes to the DTES. Typical privileged perspective. People like you are the problem.
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It’s the “just get rid of them” point of view. Put them out of sight. But they don’t really disappear.
I empathize with the desire to sweep away the problems of addiction in our society. They are complicated. But I don’t think that much work has actually been done to address them, or not the right kind of work. We overfund police and underfund social programs. At its core we don’t address the underlying family issues, the roots of addiction that began in childhood. We need a societal shift. We need more people working in healing roles and less people working meaningless jobs they hate that just feed into a capitalist, overly-consumptive black hole. The DTES really isn’t that big. The bigger problem is the fact that millions of us drive through there, maybe a part of our heart breaks, maybe we would like to help, but we don’t, because we’re scared, we’re busy (doing things that don’t necessarily even make us happy), and we think the problems are actually unsolvable.
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