Dude, shut the fuck up. I, very obviously, wasn’t glorifying panhandling you fucking Twitter bitch drama queen. Fuck the fuck off
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three@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoAre you honestly glorifying panhandling? Baking in the hot sun, breathing constant exhaust fumes? While people avert their eyes, staring straight forward. As you watch the relief cross their faces when the light turns green? Buddy can you even imagine at hour 10, an old woman with pity in her eyes claims “Jesus will save you if you open your heart” and hands you a fucking fake 10 dollar bill with a bible verse on the back? And in the next instant you’re being told to “get a job!”.
All day.
I can’t think of a more dehumanizing experience.
charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I can. Doing the same thing you just described, but for less money, aka minimum wage.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Good satire
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude those people make more than you can imagine, and I have thought of trying it myself just to see how much I can make (as a experience) then write an article on it. But I can’t bring myself to go that low even for that. City of Tulsa allows panhandlers long as they wear a hi vis vest. Used to be illegal, and lot of them are not homeless or needy. Knew guy in Dallas that did this outside the apartments he lived in and he drove a Mercedes that waa in the 1990s.
I remember Fox News in Dallas that did a segment on panhandlers. The hidden camera one guy who held a sign saying "hungry " but when someone handed him a bundle of bananas he threw them in the gutter. They showed him later gambling in Las Vegas.
If they hit the right corner they can make a good 20 bucks an hour. Of course those corners you will see some fight for those good locations.
My brother even met three guys who took turns running one of those streets and he said they were banking more then he was
The point is you be surprised how many people will give these sign holders money. I even see people do it to the ones that clearly weren’t homeless. Wearing brandnew clothes and shoes. Those flabbergas me. I mean if you are going do this at least look the part. Like the guy I knew who owned a Mercedes. He had a beard that he made look unkempt and dressed in dirty clothes. But made money. He said he had a bad day if he cleared less then 500 a day.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you ever want to prove your point to people that can read, never ever include fox news as your source. You’re selling yourself out as someone who doesn’t give a shit about logic or fact.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
I remember Fox News in Dallas that did a segment on panhandlers.
Fox News is not a credible source
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not fucking Fox News like the cable network, but Fox news local channel hence why I mentioned Fox News Dallas. This long before Fox News bullshit.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
Nothing owned by News Corp is credible
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You don’t think it’s odd at all that they have the same name and are owned by the same people and peddle the same messages?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cubicles
Exusia@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you describing local minimum wage jobs or panhandling. Because that sounds like an awful lot of treatment for both.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Swap out the car exhaust fumes for gas stove fumes and the baking sun for the heat of a kitchen and you pretty much have what it’s like to work in a restaurant! Right down to the fake money that’s actually church pamphlets!
I guess it’s probably not very common for people to yell “get a job” at a restaurant server, though they do yell lots of other things (and bring screaming children with them).
pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Got damm!!