Panhandling

There's a saying, you get what you incentivize. If you pay people to be poor, you'll get more poor... There's a saying, you get what you incentivize. So if you pay people to be poor, it's amazing how many people will suddenly become poor. An example is this panhandler that makes $1,000 a weekend in Texas, by pretending to be homeless and wheelchair bound. He has a home and walks just fine. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2019-08-02

In NYC one guy was making $200/hour. An Oklahoma guy made $60K/year. This is nothing new, welfare scams have been endemic since people figured out that the givers are lazy rubes that want to feel better about themselves, more than they want to prove the recipient is a fraud. FakeFact checkers like Snopes claim that the $50/hour claim is unproven -- but so are all their claims on the topic. They ignore the outliers to prove their claim -- better would be if they just admitted that's likely not the norm, but completely in the realm of probability.

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Terms We need to agree on what terms mean. This used to be easy, before SJW's/Marxists started Orwelling our language.

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Homelessness In a free society, homelessness is an unsolvable problem. But it can be reduced or increased, depending on policy.

🔗 Links

• https://local12.com/news/nation-world/police-chief-non-homeless-non-handicap-man-making-1000weekend-panhandling
• https://nypost.com/2015/11/11/this-bum-boasts-he-makes-200-an-hour-panhandling/
• https://www.ibtimes.com/how-much-do-panhandlers-make-new-york-city-homeless-man-earns-200-hour-sitting-2181312
• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shane-warren-speegle-says_n_1694577
• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/do-panhandlers-make-50-an-hour/

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