You will see stuff in a car, especially out west. Seeing things doesn't really have relevance unless we are talking hundreds of miles per hour. A bike is slower than a car.
As convenience goes, we are talking about using a bike, not going on a train.
As far as comfort goes, a car is more comfortable than a bike. If you disagree, you only know economy cars.
Furoshiki are great and are in your price range.
Your income is taxed in payroll taxes, income taxes(federal and sometimes state), and then you are taxed for buying things. That is bullshit.
Personal income shouldn't be taxed unless you make substantially more than the cost of living. Anything over $10m should be taxed at 100% including capital gains and stock awards. If you need more motivation to succeed than $10m a year, you are a lazy parasite.
Where they need to actually tax is businesses. Tax the businesses based on profit and remove the loopholes that allow for tax avoidance abuse schemes that result in a state single digit tax percentage of profits. I would even go so far as to say that the federal taxes on businesses should only apply in interstate and international businesses and only states should be allowed to tax businesses that operate exclusively within the state's borders.
The effects of that tax plan have obvious consequences and they are all beneficial to the people.
If you have never driven through the middle of America, you would have quite the time trying to do so on a bike.
It would be an adventure, to say the least.
Except in terms of speed, safety, convenience, and comfort.
Great exercise, very green, and an experience though.
Maybe in Europe or any other country that has a good or decent passenger rail system.
In America you can't reach a lot of the country by rail and so many things worth seeing aren't reasonably reach with a bike.
Absolutely, you can't just call them good and send them off into the population. A degree of continued support would be advisable even if they have transitioned into a "normal" state equal to the average person because homelessness has long-term psychological effects that can't be allowed to smoulder.
Yeah, having a distribution of "classes" within a communal housing makes the most sense.
The issue of having a maladapted homeless person within proximity of "normal" people is that they may negatively affect others in meaningful ways. So an intermediary step from the streets to communal housing is necessary to act as a rehabilitation point to filter out the homeless that would actively harm the peace, safety, and security of everyone else. Without that intermediary step, the community will step up and "handle" the situation in a less than desirable manner. "So you are saying the guy that we have had various complaints about multiple times a month just decided to jump off the roof and nobody saw anything?" That sort of dynamic has played out throughout human history.
So a degree of isolation and counseling is necessary and the duration would be highly dependent on the individual's needs.
Yes, slavery is illegal in America under the 13th amendment, which also allows for unpaid prison labor.
I don't disagree with you, but I feel a communal housing with lots of homeless people in close proximity would be deleterious to homeless rehabilitation as the worst examples would negatively effect the best examples in the same way that prison turns a normal person into a broken person that can manage existing outside of that system.
You couldn't even separate the degrees of maladaptions and have productive rehabilitation because there would a point at which you create a oroboros class that would never be capable of rehabilitation in proximity to similar cases that would fester and grow until you need a larger capacity that never really makes progress.
The same sort of thing happens on the streets now. The influence of the worse cases drag down others until you have a common population of bad cases that are decivilized until rehabilitation is almost impossible.
A more separate and isolated rehabilitation program would allow for a greater ability for improvement in a vacuum devoid from the detrimental influence of worse or more of the same influence. Obviously that would be more costly and have greater logistical needs, but that is the cost of meaningful homeless rehabilitation.
Prison labor isn't free, they still get paid. They don't get paid a "fair" wage, but they do get paid to skirt slavery just barely enough.
Also they cost taxpayers more to keep in prison than if they were abusing welfare and not working and someone else was paid a "fair" wage to do the same work prisoners do.
It would be nice if they were paid a fair wage for their work and were rehabilitated so taxpayers didn't have to subsidize prisoner exploitation for as long, but that would be too "commie".
I don't even know if America has passenger trains with car carrying. I believe that is a thing in Europe and maybe Asia.