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Alright what are the odds that Finland’s famous and much lauded approach to reducing homelessness was actually nonsense, and you’re the first person to tell the truth: that it’s actually because the homeless all just froze to death? That’d mean every news outlet has somehow ignored it, there are no whistleblowers and nobody else has bothered to look at any data on it.



If life taught me something, it's that the brutal answer is usually the right one. The world somehow undeservedly give enormous credit to the social systems of Nordic countries. Simply look at the numbers. Finland for a country larger than Poland and UK has only 5m inhabitants. Another "fun fact" - Sweden has worse wealth inequality than Russia.


As far I understand things, due to the weather and climate over there, anybody not in a seriously built home properly connected to utility networks is literaly dead. And those home must be properly maintained, not to mention they must have some empty spares, which must stay empty but ready, in case some nasty big local event does happen.

In other words, you better be welcomed over there, or you'll die, literaly.

And with climate change, I wonder if the current weather computer simulations on the new climate we are creating will generate extreme cold events in more southern countries, long enough event to kill many homeless if not all.


So we're really going with "the homeless just froze to death and it's just all a big conspiracy"?




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