• JustTheWind@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Literally gave a guy $100 once (everything in my wallet) so that he wouldn’t need to keep begging in the parking lot. I was working minimum wage. Problem is, now I literally don’t have enough money to do that again. Now see, maybe if the next person also did this, that might help solve the problem. Perhaps it might evolve into a community of people paying it forward and helping the brother next to them in a slowly strengthened network of support.

    In other words, a much more expensive, unsustainable and unreliable version of a strong government funded social safety net.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOP
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      Give a man a hundred dollars, he’ll feed himself for a day. Teach a man how to make a hundred dollars… you know where I’m going with this.