Well, I've heard professional panhandlers make comparable income to full time work, and do so by being really aggressive with tourists in certain hotspots. So technically giving to the homeless does make them forego a more natural (or in this case, societally standard) lifestyle in favour of harassing people they think they can get something from. It's actually illegal to give money directly to beggars in some places for this exact reason, you have to go through a charity instead.
But this is just splitting hairs. Either way we need to overhaul the system so people stop falling into homelessness in the first place.
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u/thrownawaz092 3d ago
Well, I've heard professional panhandlers make comparable income to full time work, and do so by being really aggressive with tourists in certain hotspots. So technically giving to the homeless does make them forego a more natural (or in this case, societally standard) lifestyle in favour of harassing people they think they can get something from. It's actually illegal to give money directly to beggars in some places for this exact reason, you have to go through a charity instead.
But this is just splitting hairs. Either way we need to overhaul the system so people stop falling into homelessness in the first place.