I don’t know, I’m not homeless or addicted… I’m pretty sure you don’t know either, for the same reasons.

What I do know is that in Australia homelessness is exasperated by an inability to get banked.

In Australia welfare needs a bank account to pay into. Banks need a residential address to open an account… part of their identity verification. So if you are a homeless youth escaping a dangerous home life… you are set on a difficult loop.

Bitcoin fixes that 👆

Bitcoin also fixes hopelessness. I’m not sure if hopelessness is related to homelessness and addiction, only each individual living those realities could answer that.

I also wonder if your premise is correct. Do homelessness and addiction need fixing? Or do they naturally resolve for all those, living it, who want to resolve them, under a different standard?

Time will tell.

Help should always be available for those who seek it, but not in the form of a handout, there is no self respect in that, in the form of a job. Forced intervention is never the way.