After Corbu

I once had a very long philosophical conversation about this very issue with a homeless man at a greyhound station.  He was not amused; he was hungry.  I still don’t understand the best behavior.  There’s too many tradeoffs involved:

• immediate vs long term action
• individual vs  collective efforts
• personal vs structural change

Of course, right now I buy bread with blood money made from gentrifying poor neighborhoods, so right now I’m going with give a dollar to the poor guy who’s apartment you just helped bulldoze.