Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
Elon Musk thinks that, in most cases, there are not even homeless people: “It’s propaganda for violent drug addicts with serious mental illnesses”.
To Elon Musk, in most cases there are no homeless people. The multimillionaire thinks that talking about “homelessness” is lie.
The context is a newspaper report, which shows the concern of local businesses about the homeless and the increase in drug use in an area of the US city.
Jeremy Kauffman, businessman and political activist, “This report shows what happens when we give homes to the homeless: they live in poverty, fight and kill themselves, die from drug overdosesthey are evicted for not following basic rules, they threaten and abuse employees.
Also on , Elon Musk reacted: “In most cases, the word ‘homeless’ is a lie. It’s a propaganda word to drug addicts violent with mental illnesses graves”.
In most cases, the word “homeless” is a lie.
It’s usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
This is not the first time that the future director of the Department of Government Efficiency has questioned the term “homeless”.
“Homeless is a name improper. This implies that someone was a little late on their mortgage, and if they just gave him a job, he would get his house back,” Musk said in October.
“What we really have are violent zombies on drugs, with dead eyes, and needles and human feces in the streets”, recalls .
And Musk warned at the time that, The more money is spent on this fight, the situation becomes “worse and worse”.
There are more than 600,000 people in the US who are homeless.