Numbers and Homelessness

 I watched a podcast last week....detailing questions posed to a homeless guy in LA....who'd been told that in inner-city...via the city, state, federal and private donations....per homeless person, there was around $120,000 flowing to each person.

So the homeless (Vet, from what I could determine)...analyzed this, and asked how this was possible.  He just didn't see between food, shelter and 'care' (clothing, meds)....he didn't think he was getting more than $30k a year himself.

I pondered upon this.

I asked Qrok how many charity operations in LA...exist....just for homeless folks.  It's around 200 total.

So each one has a design, a purpose, and a CEO-like person (getting paid probably in the $100k minimum range).  

All of this brings into play...a complicated mess, and each having some mission-statement....how they are saving x-thousand people, but they are sharing among themselves....x-thousand.  It's like a grocery store group (a dozen) who each say they have 20,000 consumers a week coming in, but for each of the dozen....it's the same 20,000 folks.

Same story in SF, Seattle, and NY City?  Yeah, I would imagine.

The Thing About Reasoning

 I've come to the belief that many Americans (probably more than 50-percent of the under-30 crowd) are completely lacking in basic reasoning skills.  If you presented a problem, and asked for analysis....they'd probably just wait (more than 10 minutes)...then admit they have no solution, no ideas, and no way to resolve the mess.

I'm not even sure if you approached college graduates, and asked for a detailed study of the issue, and some 'fix'....if you could get answer.

Why?  It just seems like some alternate school path occurred in the late 1990s, and people marched off to some dumbass landscape...figuring someone else would be the resolution-people.

So I come to the real purpose of AI.....that eventually....it will be the resolution-people, and leave a majority of people to serve as marginal labor.