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Everywhere I go, I see the decline

Coercion accelerates decline.

ScottCDunn
5 min readSep 1, 2024

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Every day I go for a walk, almost without fail. Some days I have to stay inside. Most days I go out and I see the progress. As the days go by, I see the subdivisions go up. Stacks of materials like wood, drywall and bags of cement, are turned into houses for people to live in. it’s all we can do here in Utah. If we build more houses, more people have a place to live.

Homelessness is a sign of coercion.

While I do see progress, I also see decline. I just don’t see that many people living here in 20 years. I believe that in 20 years, half of the houses in my subdivision will be empty. We won’t make enough people to keep the homes full.

The decline that I see in America also is one of economic decline. The wealthy have taken far too much out of the economy for their own benefit. Sure, they have projects like going to Mars and AI, but those projects don’t build houses. People do that. People who build houses have the skills required to build a house, and if they make enough money, they will tell others how to do the same thing.

People need houses more than they need to go to Mars or have a computer that thinks for them.

In every study I’ve ever seen, more houses means less homeless people. People aren’t homeless…

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