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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I mean, I believe those studies, but I’ve also been homeless, been through shelters and camps and have known people who would just toss their broken shit into the woods or a river, whether it legitimately be theirs, or if they stole it.

Obviously not all homeless people do this, but some of them do.

This kind of stuff is usually the most visible to your average joe… so its not accurate to say it does not happen.

But at the same time, its likely that at a more grand societal level, those studies are fairly accurate.

I would be interested if the methodologies of those studies even took into account the homeless population.

Homeless people are kind of notoriously difficult to study or survey, as they are often migratory, have no… you know, permanent residence, and often do not want to be bothered.

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