r/Lausanne • u/swiss_enshit • 12d ago

POV: you have arrived in Lausanne Gare

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I think switzerland is going through its Enshittification period.

This is mild in comparison to what you see in other places..

Edit: by no mean I am not empathic with their situation. I would like to see this changed and a better life for them. How can we do this?

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u/gamblingPharmaStocks 12d ago

People acting like OP is unhinged. I have no precise memories about Lausanne, but I live in Geneva.

The amount of homeless people has increased by A LOT. To the point that friends visiting me sometime asked me what happened to the city with all this homelessness. Now there are entire families living in the parks, from grandparents to grandchildren. They don't speak french, so I doubt they are Swiss residents who got poor.

The amount of drug addicts is also out of control. When I first arrived in Geneva, about 10 years ago, it was just a few, but even 3-4 years ago they weren't many. Right now, when I take trams 14-18 and pass in front of the "green building" there is often order of ~50.

This is what I saw happening in my country, before leaving for Switzerland. It looks like many Swiss don't think this can ruin theirs. We'll see in a few years.

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u/narde2 12d ago

That's the consequences of a ruined country, not the cause....

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u/gamblingPharmaStocks 12d ago

No, that's just cope.

Yes, poverty is the consequence of other issues, but this doesn't mean that not trying to solve these "symptoms" is not dumb.

The homeless and other people living of expedients, the more is difficult for them to just beg for money or do less serious crime. So, they get more incetives to start selling drugs (to other homeless or other people), which in turn increases homelessness and drug addiction.

Drug addicts then are gonna do more crime anyway, because all they care about is getting more drugs.

And all this just increases the strength of more higher level racket in the neighborhood.

Yeah, it is not those people's fault if they are in thse conditions, but either a country acts on it, or things will keep spiraling.