My brother's neighbor's colleague has heard of a guy who lives as a hobo all summer and he makes enough money panhandling/collecting bottles for recycling that he owns a big house that he can live in without having to work the rest of the year!
The version of something somewhat similar I heard was "yeah my brother's college best friend's uncle studied [fancy title, eg medicine] with one of the homeless you see around campus, they were bright and graduated with honors but then something really bad happened to them and choose to be homeless forever"
Plus real stories like this: https://www.minutouno.com/sociedad/la-tragica-historia-del-medico-argentino-que-vive-como-indigente-y-conmueve-las-redes-sociales-n273444
I heard this story on a morning zoo show second date update segment. The girl rejected a second date because the guy was a software engineer who already made enough money to support himself but he moonlighted as a panhandler on nights and weekends as a hobby.
The version I've heard goes like this:
My brother's neighbor's colleague has heard of a guy who lives as a hobo all summer and he makes enough money panhandling/collecting bottles for recycling that he owns a big house that he can live in without having to work the rest of the year!
They did a test! $60,000 a year!
The version of something somewhat similar I heard was "yeah my brother's college best friend's uncle studied [fancy title, eg medicine] with one of the homeless you see around campus, they were bright and graduated with honors but then something really bad happened to them and choose to be homeless forever"
Plus real stories like this: https://www.minutouno.com/sociedad/la-tragica-historia-del-medico-argentino-que-vive-como-indigente-y-conmueve-las-redes-sociales-n273444
How can you say these words so close to eachother and not understand how much of a "choice" that was?
The myth of the "choice" of homelessness is as socially harmful a take as it is idiotic.
The mind of the lib is a land of ignored blatant contradictions
I heard this story on a morning zoo show second date update segment. The girl rejected a second date because the guy was a software engineer who already made enough money to support himself but he moonlighted as a panhandler on nights and weekends as a hobby.
To be fair, panhandling is probably more lucrative than getting people to fund your open source npm packages.
they have no data, they just repeat anecdote ghost stories to scare each other and/or confirm biases