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https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-international-philanthropic-071123.html#:~:text=By%20prioritizing%20the%20Housing%20First,success%20at%20effectively%20addressing%20homelessness.

Through an innovative public policy strategy that has virtually eliminated homelessness within its borders

This is probably the least dickish way to go about it.

I think your instant assumption about it being done for evil says more about the country you live than it does about Finland, because homelessness doesn't seem to be a big issue in Finland. That's ~5k homeless people in a country with ~5 million people, that's ~0.1% of the population being homeless.

We don't have homeless people on finland. Or we do but quite minimally, the numbers are in couple thousand if I recall right

In this case Finland actually takes care of their people and homelessness isn't a problem there. They're just really polite introverts who I might guess prefer sitting alone as opposed to on a bench close to others.

Source - my introverted niece met a Fin, fell in love, moved to Finland and is in absolute heaven. Her husband has visited the States a few times and is always overwhelmed with the casual social interactions with strangers in public.

It's clearly a one person bus without wheels

That's what I thought. IMHO, hostile architecture is the physical-world equivalent of a lot of the policies that led us to flee Reddit, Twitter, etc.

My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It'd still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.

Or spread your arms if you are alone

Coffin full of hot rocks

Thanks I came 👍

Maybe you prefer to block a second seat, when you sit on a two person bank. ^^

Not getting sunlight for months in a row tends to make people depressed.

but would you have to sit next to someone on the plane

Gotta back off further than that, yo.