The article itself points out this exact problem. We’ve replaced the American Dream with the American Lottery, where only the truly lucky get to change their circumstance. Otherwise, any study will tell you American has way lower levels of social mobility than Europe. If you want talent to be rewarded, the European Reality beats the American Dream very time.
GoFundMe isn't a social safety net. Overly wealthy donors dolling out six-figure handouts and spare prime-Manhattan bedrooms as pocket change at their own discretion to this kid isn't scalable either.
We shouldn't treat one-off's like this that tug at our heart strings as social progress. Just take a walk down Market Street and realize that there is still a mountainous amount of work to be done.
And it can be done. In modern, developed countries like South Korea, there is not a single homeless person. Come on, America!
I am very privileged; I didn't have to become a state chess champion against all odds in order to have basic shelter.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeles...
It is a tiny fraction of the total population, and an achievement, so why bullshit about it? As for “our own kind” I’m not going to touch that for love or money.
https://www.upi.com/North-Korean-defector-says-no-homelessne...
Equally, business location seems to have very little to do with personal taxation.
This all funnels down to a fundamental misunderstanding of the source of wealth: it starts with a working economy where people buy stuff and work. The rich, like it or not, don’t do much of either relative to their wealth.