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fxtentacle on March 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: California bill would let parents sue social media...

Much less homelessness, for starters.

Also, not every useful innovation can be measured in unicorn dollars ;) Facebook has a massive market cap, yet it arguably just makes everyone less happy.

zpeti on March 17, 2022 [–]

Try again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...

The US is no outlier, in fact it has a lower homeless rate than Germany and Sweden.

fxtentacle on March 19, 2022 | [–]

Because Germany counts people with a government-provided home as homeless, too, while the US does not.

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