i generally take it that the homeless workers represents a new economic phenonemonin which semi-skilled workers are no longer able to afford a mortgage or apartment rent, and are forced into a permanent RV lifestyle from which it is difficult to escape. They can descend, but climbing is very difficult. Under my presumptions, this is not just because profit margins are thin, but because there is multinational corporate greed and a corresponding lack of concern for employees in general. The RV housed semi skilled workers, being at the bottom of the multinational corporate pyramid, are the symptom of multinational corporate greed. I’m fairly certain that this was not a phenomenon in the 1950s through the 1970s.
Ideally the problem would solve itself if corporate management concerned itself more with longer term employee welfare. However, it seems as if current laws and regulations discourages corporations from taking interest in employee well-being. I think a harbinger of that trend was the transferrable 401k plan. Transferability of retirement plans is generally a good thing, but it ushered in an age in which job changes occur every three year on the average (if that long), corporations are reluctant to invest in employees through training, and pensions (outside of government and government mandated pensions) are a thing of the remote past.
If the future is represented by corporate sentiment to the effect that people will own nothing and be happy or happier, then the RV housing phenomenon will become a future that awaits most of us and our descendants.
Problem is, we don’t build affordable houses anymore, every house is a big and cost at least a half million, if you can’t get those prices, builders aren’t interested.
Natural Resources - things you gather and use up for profit.
Human Resources -
suddenly the money dried up along with employee moral. you didnt get a new winter coat every 3-4 years, company picnics, a few t shirts, etc.