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There's about 40 other capitalist countries where losing your job doesn't end in homelessness and medical debt is not even a thing. And we have universal Healthcare, paid annual leave, paid parental leave, unlimited paid sick leave, unions,...
Basically there's only one country where all of that doesn't exist...
where are these countries? The only one I know of uses 3 methods to prevent Homelessness.
Method 1: USA tax dollars pay for all of their healthcare.
Method 2: great unemployment benefits.
Method 3: (their most preferred method of Homelessness prevention) Step 1- Find an intact house with Palestinians in it. Step 2- shoot all of them in the heads including the children. Step 3- clean up. Step 4- give house to a filthy Israeli genocide supporter.
Apparently there's no English articlr for the new version, but here's the old one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgergeld
Medical debt might not be a thing but losing your home because you lost your job definitely happens in Europe.
Yes, losing your home after losing your job definitely happens in Europe. The difference is that many European countries have stronger safety nets: they may help with rent, provide temporary or social housing, or use Housing First, so unemployment is less likely to end in rough sleeping. They generally won’t simply pay off your mortgage, and the help isn’t guaranteed, but keeping people stably housed can be cheaper in the long run than repeatedly dealing with homelessness. It also makes finding and keeping work much easier. In the UK, for example, eligible people may receive Jobseeker’s Allowance and help with their rent through Universal Credit, or Housing Benefit in certain circumstances.
And yet losing your job can still quiet easily lead to homelessness. "There are capitalist countries where that doesn't happen" isn't an argument if it does in fact happen in those capitalist countries. We might have better safety nets, but they are band-aids that only slow the function of capitalism, they don't solve it's inherent problems.
In Germany they will pay your rent indefinitely - as long as you're trying to find a job. Some people abuse the system, of course, but in general works well and you see very little people sleepng on the street.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Germany
I'm sure the ~300,000 rough sleepers are happy to know you don't notice them.
It's a free country, if you want to be homeless, or you have mental health issues you don't want to treat, the government cannot force you into a house.