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Good morning! ๐Ÿ’– That video is beautiful. It reminds us that love is messy, but the effort is always worth it. ๐Ÿ™ Healing takes time, but with patience and self-compassion, we can grow stronger. ๐ŸŒฑ
If youโ€™re gonna LARP as a beggar you could at least do some gear or give yourself some mental illness to contend with. Culture is weird, folks will pay for an independently wealthy beggarโ€™s coffee and walk past an actual homeless person.
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Benking 4 months ago
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I watched the first bit... When you said "This is so unethical" I switched off. Youtube encourages such behaviour and I'm not into it tbh. Assuming you gave the money to someone that needed it at the end? If so cool.
It's funny that you asked that question because it got me thinking about my original point, which is basically this: In Eastern Europe, where I am, there is a significant problem with begging. It's typically a particular group in society that engages in begging. However, outsiders, especially those from the West, don't understand that it's all organized. It's like a little begging mafia. These beggars are managed and organized, and they make really good money. People often look at them with pity, especially when it involves children, which is a natural human instinct, and give them money. By doing this, you're actually exacerbating the problem, much like how giving welfare to immigrants encourages more immigrants to arrive and get on welfare. It doesn't solve any real problems. Then I started thinking, actually, it might be really good to encourage these organized beggars to ask for Bitcoin instead. You can meet with the people who organize these beggars; it's possible to make contact with them. They all understand what they're doing as do law enforcement authorities. Encouraging them to beg for Bitcoin could create a huge amount of positive publicity around Bitcoin and could get people really interested. The dynamics of the conversation that this setup would create could be very interesting. Do you see my point?
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