I like wanting on the extremes.  If it had been truly true that capitalism causes selfishness, then what are the percentages that the world’s most free market nation would even be the world’s most egalitarian nation?  However it’s.

If it had been truly true that fertility charges are falling as a result of it’s too expensive to lift children lately, then what are the percentages that the largest fall in fertility in your complete world would have occurred within the nation with the quickest financial progress over the previous 60 years?  Nevertheless it did.

In the present day, I discovered one other instance:

As homelessness skyrockets throughout the nation, Mississippi’s numbers are trending in the fitting path.

In response to USAFacts, 3.3 out of 10,000 individuals skilled sheltered homelessness in Mississippi final 12 months. With 982 individuals experiencing homelessness in Mississippi in 2023, the state has the bottom fee of homelessness nationwide. This accounts for about 0.0015% of America’s homeless inhabitants. That is over 5 occasions decrease than Mississippi’s share of the nation’s total inhabitants.

This hyperlink supplies knowledge for all fifty states:

Sadly, the colour coding right here is whole homeless inhabitants, which is why Wyoming seems decrease than Mississippi.  In the event you go to the hyperlink and click on on every state, you’ll discover the per capita figures, that are extra significant.  New York and Hawaii have the very best charges, though elsewhere I learn that California has probably the most homeless individuals truly dwelling on the streets.  Many homeless New Yorkers are in shelters.  Mississippi is lowest in per capita phrases.

So right here’s my query:  If poverty truly did trigger homelessness, then what are the percentages that the bottom fee of homelessness would happen in America’s poorest state?  Even when there have been no correlation, the percentages could be only one in 50.  If there truly was a optimistic correlation between poverty charges in a state and homelessness, then it might be much more stunning to seek out Mississippi having the bottom homeless fee.

In my opinion, homelessness has a number of causes.  For homeless individuals in shelters, restrictions on constructing are a serious trigger.  For these on the road, medication and psychological sickness additionally play a giant position.  Poverty is much down the checklist.