This logic is sort of bullshit. For one, the flow of traffic around an area isn’t consistent throughout the day, so there are going to be peak times and times they don’t receive anything. For another thing, you are making and accepting Walmart’s shit low as what the norm should be. Third, there’s what you’ve left out. No one is going to look at a perfectly work capable human being, or god forbid, someone who’s overweight, and going to give them that sort of money. People have eyes and can determine despair for themselves.
There are fringe cases, specially in big cities with a lot of new traffic flow every day, and in those cases even criminal gangs get in on it. That doesn’t mean that beggars are better off, that means that they now have to worry about worked and shoved out by gangs that now they can get money from it.
Most people don’t want to beg, even when they’d need to. Begging is putting yourself down before the rest of society. Even when they need to beg because they have no other option left, it becomes a case of “do I deserve it more than someone else?” When they finally do, kudos to them if for only a few hours of a day they receive more money in donations than what a faceless exploitative corporation pays their workers.
Thank you for this. Just the simple fact of how low and humiliating it is to beg for money is enough to me… I always try to help the homeless when I can.
One thing that I have learned helps them is taking the time to have a conversation with someone that’s homeless. Treat them like everyone else… after getting put down day after day and treated like scum, having someone treat you like just another normal person can be extremely uplifting. Also helps one to see past the whole “They are just getting one over on the system” rhetoric.
My heart goes out to anyone who is experiencing homelessness… I wish we lived in a world where that wasn’t a thing. Hopefully one day it won’t be.
This logic is sort of bullshit. For one, the flow of traffic around an area isn’t consistent throughout the day, so there are going to be peak times and times they don’t receive anything. For another thing, you are making and accepting Walmart’s shit low as what the norm should be. Third, there’s what you’ve left out. No one is going to look at a perfectly work capable human being, or god forbid, someone who’s overweight, and going to give them that sort of money. People have eyes and can determine despair for themselves.
There are fringe cases, specially in big cities with a lot of new traffic flow every day, and in those cases even criminal gangs get in on it. That doesn’t mean that beggars are better off, that means that they now have to worry about worked and shoved out by gangs that now they can get money from it.
Most people don’t want to beg, even when they’d need to. Begging is putting yourself down before the rest of society. Even when they need to beg because they have no other option left, it becomes a case of “do I deserve it more than someone else?” When they finally do, kudos to them if for only a few hours of a day they receive more money in donations than what a faceless exploitative corporation pays their workers.
Thank you for this. Just the simple fact of how low and humiliating it is to beg for money is enough to me… I always try to help the homeless when I can.
One thing that I have learned helps them is taking the time to have a conversation with someone that’s homeless. Treat them like everyone else… after getting put down day after day and treated like scum, having someone treat you like just another normal person can be extremely uplifting. Also helps one to see past the whole “They are just getting one over on the system” rhetoric.
My heart goes out to anyone who is experiencing homelessness… I wish we lived in a world where that wasn’t a thing. Hopefully one day it won’t be.