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[socialactivillain]

[ Video switches on to show a man with a ginger ponytail in a hideous green v-neck frowning deeply and looking incredibly disappointed and/or frustrated, sitting on a park bench as dusk settles in.]

Okay, I've been here for less than a day, so would someone mind explaining to me how it is that the United States government can allocate all these funds to keep us imPorts in nicely furnished, comfortable homes in several cities, and expect native businesses and companies to provide us with paid employment, yet its own citizens are still facing what seem like absurd rates of homelessness? Like I said, I only just arrived, but it didn't take me long to find people who have lost their jobs and homes to make way for the growing imPort population.

[ Someone spent his whole first day in Heropa in a park, befriending homeless people. Continuing on, he sighs heavily, as though this is personally wronging and inconveniencing him, not people he doesn't even know. ]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we're to blame for this. After all, it's not as though it's our fault some unstable technology yanked us from our worlds and lives. Of course this world's government would have to provide for us until we can return home. But every single one of us has the responsibility to give back.

So, what are you doing to help? I'll be taking donations to start up a charity for natives displaced by our presence, if you can't come up with anything on your own.

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[medalsome]

Yeah, I guess...

[There were plenty of poor people back home in Mexico, but in the San Angel Joaquin remembered there hadn't been anyone that was so poor they went completely without.]

I don't really know how the U.S. does things, but back home if someone was in need the community usually came together to help out. But our community was small, and imPorts are easy for the government to sponsor because we all have nanites in us. Their own natives don't, so how can they take care of them all when there's just so many?

[socialactivillain]

You basically just described why our society doesn't work under capitalism on the scale that we're expected to operate. At the scale of millions or billions of people, of course people fall through the cracks. If the major world governments expect their systems to work, they need to provide socialized programs for smaller communities to be able do just that: provide for their own.

[medalsome]

Uhh, did I?

It sounds like it would be difficult to organize.

[socialactivillain]

Anything can be difficult if no one is willing to even try.

[medalsome]

Yeah, I guess.

I guess this is why I'm not a politician. I couldn't organize something like that. [His mind just boggles at the idea.]

[socialactivillain]

You don't have to be a politician to help out. I'm certainly not.

[medalsome]

But isn't it sorta their job to get programs started? You would think if they wanted to get voted back into office they would address what's important to the people who are voting for them.

[socialactivillain]

No, they typically address what's important to the people paying them the most money.