US Authoritarianism

I have family up there in that area. There's a HUGE homeless problem with large camps being assembled in various areas. I've seen a few where they're tucked back in State land off of the freeways, but a couple camps have been set up in park areas that are left wooded and more natural.

To extrapolate this further, having a fallback is how most everyone gets ahead. It's virtually impossible to be a self-made (man, success, whatever we want to call it). If you have a fallback, by default, you have more than a lot of people. Everyone stands on the work of those that came before. Rich families are the fallback for their kids, so the kids grow up and are in a position to take risky business chances because they'll still be rich if they fail. Middle class kids that maybe bomb out of college have a home to go back to (maybe not happily, but it's often there nonetheless). Poor people on the other hand really avoid any risks because they can't afford to lose any ground at all. If they fail, they're living in their car.