People frequently state the statistic about the number of empty houses and apartments versus the number of homeless.
There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S
Well, there’s about a million times more empty parking spots versus people living in their car.
… that’s clever.
You’d need some sort of vetting process, I don’t think companies would be interested in unvetted randos as part of their security. But if you could figure out a way to vet them inexpensively, that could potentially be marketable.
I suspect this thinking is part of what contributes to Walmart’s historic friendliness to car campers.
Walmarts had historically been 24 hour stores, until covid came around. People who stay overnight in their parking lots are more likely to make purchases from the store.
I miss 24 hour stores :/
I miss having the option late at night, but also 24 hour businesses create some pretty toxic trends. I’d like to see a few overnight-only businesses pop up.
What toxic trends are those?
Mostly scheduling shit. There’s always the “clopen” in retail, now imagine no close, there’s bound to be bullshit shifts.
Also the founder Sam Walton used to do a lot of long road trips when he was getting Wal Mart off the ground, and had warm feelings toward travelers.
There’s a reason that we don’t let people be employed and their only payment is food and shelter.
Gotta protect those homeless people from being stuck in a predatory job that gives them food and shelter?
Rephrased: let’s incentivize homelessness so we can use them as de facto slaves because they won’t make money so can’t escape.
We tried that before. Corporate towns were hell. The minimum wage wasn’t created because we are just so nice. It was to address a problem.
They will worry they will become campers. And then during the day it will look bad for employees or customers trying to park there.