Governments (at least modern iterations) seem to me another tool to enable concentration of wealth, resources, and luxury for those willing to wrest them from the hands of the masses. Taxation, eminent domain, taking from the most vulnerable and stigmatizing the poor are just a handful of examples of mechanisms that enable our demagogic domineers to fulfill that purpose.

Didn't you just say you were optimistic? :P Governments might have been created to rule over the people. I don't know why the first happened. But why we need them is for them to organize people to do things together that we all need. But yeah, they don't very often lately. Or they do so much shit that people hate they can't even appreciate the things they do that help.

Heck the corruption! Help the homeless!

Totally read this as "Hack the corruption! Hack the homeless!", as in a reference to hacking. I think it would be totally possible to solve this problem by "hacking" it. The government isn't helping enough. They aren't solving the problem. Maybe it's time that people get together and create organizations to help people find work and places to stay. There are small organizations that provide some food and beds...but there needs to be something larger, more widespread, that works with a ton of different people and organizations to help different people.

But I don't think that we can solve healthcare. That's so fucked up and out of control, it needs intervention.