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Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!
(lemmy.world)
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Had coworkers who would insist the guys panhandling on the street were making more than we were. In fairness, we were being paid shit. But there were so many back-of-the-envelop assumptions and urban legends flying around - "Well, if he gets $1 on every light and there's 20 light changes every hour..." / "I hear they all drive nice cars and just pretend to be poor..." / "I heard on the AM Radio that there's a trick homeless people use to get rich quickly..." - that you couldn't have any kind of serious response to the right-wing rumor mill.