I hear this all the time - yet I don't see many people particularly keen on dropping out, and getting onto the free ride bus.
One of the problems with that free ride bus is that it doesn't go to great places. It didn't sound like you were looking forward to the prospect of living in subsidized housing for the rest of your life very much.
Just open your eyes. Look around Seattle, or San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or San Diego or any other city with mild weather, lenient law enforcement, and generous welfare benefits. The number of homeless and housed "drop outs" is astonishing.
I have a feeling that you'll change your tune pretty quick after that. You'll quickly realize how dehumanizing it is to be in that position.
We have more of an epidemic of rich people squatting in hundreds of miles of waterfront property and ruining shoreline access for the public.
Alameda County, 43% increase in homeless population in two years.
San Francisco, 17% increase.
Orange County, 42% increase.
Kern County, 50% increase.
In Seattle/King County, 28% increase in the chronically homeless population from 2017 to 2018.
I don't see many people particularly
keen on dropping out, and getting
onto the free ride bus.
This isn't a plan of action that someone is likely going to advertise.