The Product of Ego in Society: Homelessness

Homeless people are everywhere, in every nation and in every corner of the globe. Whether it is a third world country or a first world country, homeless people exist. Whether people like it or not, there is no way to simply “get rid” of homeless people. I believe that homelessness will always exist by the way our society is set up and how we are as humans. It is only in a utopian society where homelessness would be extinct. As human beings, we were made not to be perfect, we have flaws, we make mistakes, and we want too much and give too little. It is with these traits where homelessness simply will always exist.

             The hard truth that most people do not understand is the paradox of homelessness. In civilizations, the rule of economy has always come with an exchange of goods and services. People would in a way trade goods or services for something in return. As history has gone, usually a type of currency would establish for the exchange. For example, if I would want to buy some food, I would pay for it using money, or if I worked for a whole day I would be paid for my time. In a perfect world everyone would be receiving money and spending money. Everyone would have money and everyone would be happy. Sadly, that is what a utopian society looks like and life does not work like that. Although there have been ways to make a civilization similar to a utopian society, one such example is communism. Taking away all the negative attitude towards the idea, the overall concept is the closest to a utopian society as we will get. The down side to the concept is majorly focused on our characteristics as being human. Humans are not perfect and when presented with a certain amount of power or money, it is difficult to turn away. With most people developing greed towards money is another point to why homelessness cannot be removed from societies. If there is an unequal distribution of money then it can be assumed that people do not get money or even have money. In a society where money is the key to survival, if a person doesn’t have money what happens? One answer would be that they fall back onto homelessness. In a simple stance, homelessness can be described as simply not having money due to many many reasons. Most people that are homeless have never thought that they would become homeless, it just happened.

            Life as a whole is generally unfair and not easy. Some people get hit with obstacles more than others and some cannot recover from those hits. What most people fail to realize about homeless people is that they were once like you. They had a job, hopes, dreams, a house and a life, unforeseen circumstances just moved them from that path. Of course there are some organizations that help with the growing population of homeless people but what use is there to help them if they will not get a job? That may come off as a bit negative but think about it for a second. Homeless people do not have a job, but jobs today don’t hire a person that is homeless to be the face of their company. It’s a never ending cycle that plays a role to the economy. As jobs will begin to become scarce more and more people would fall into the classification as homeless, and if jobs focus on their egos then a halt in manufacturing would occur. The point behind all this is if companies focus more on giving out jobs rather than on ego, lots of people would not be homeless as they would have a job.

            Consequently it is not a specific persons fault to why there is homelessness; it is our fault as humans not to care for each other. In life we look down unto those that beg for money or food, and we do not identify them as one of us. There is a quote I heard from somewhere that states, The moment we stop helping each other, that is when we lose our humanity.” If humans put aside their egos and thing not materialistically just to help others, positive outcomes will lead to a brighter future.