> It is caused by people developing mental health issues that make retaining employment extremely difficult.
Sadly, there are many other reasons, too. I met a family of immigrants. I learned through their eight-year old son his parents lost their jobs, couldn't find legal employment, did not speak english. As they were at a shelter, I imagine they were decent candidates to be picked up by ICE.
Nonetheless, I agree with your post. This is a solvable problem but it is only solvable at the housing level.
> Plan 9-based technologies are a part of most, if not all, operating systems today (even Windows!).
9p is indeed a great technology—I would have also thrown in utf-8—but most of plan9's ideas remain quite fringe. I would pay a ton of money for an OS with both bind and browser support. Plumber is still leagues better than anything offered by macs/linux/windows.
That said, I don't see "fringe" as being mutually exclusive with "legitimate". TempleOS had some features that other OS's could use, too—its use of hyperlinking is actually really cool.
People talk about rockets and computers, but to me atomic clocks are the pinnacle of human achievement. So many other technologies are built off of accurate time measurement, and it's a very clever mechanism (at least the one in Boulder is that I'm aware of).
The semiconductor is pretty good, too, but not nearly as clever.
Sadly, there are many other reasons, too. I met a family of immigrants. I learned through their eight-year old son his parents lost their jobs, couldn't find legal employment, did not speak english. As they were at a shelter, I imagine they were decent candidates to be picked up by ICE.
Nonetheless, I agree with your post. This is a solvable problem but it is only solvable at the housing level.