Originally Posted by
Wei Wu Wei
I could see large scale camps being used to house people when the next financial collapse occurs, when unemployment is even higher and the foreclosure rate continues. They could be like institutionalized hoovervilles, to keep the "unproductive hordes" away from the enclaves of privilege.
It could become an informal de-facto system of apartheid where people with almost no rights, no political power, no voice, and no social standing are kept in isolation, fully excluded from a society that they already cannot participate in. We see trends like this in places such as Brazil and Chile. It's not that far-fetched.
It would of course be done in the name of welfare or humanitarianism, helping people by giving them a place to sleep and food to eat but of course it would also serve to keep them excluded from the society that failed them.
or maybe not who knows