Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 day agoThat sounds like an urban legend. The Sherlock Holmes story “The Man With the Twisted Lip” includes a wealthy man who had made his money by begging. The “beggar king” trope goes back further than that, and as far as I can tell it’s just a comfortable fiction to excuse society’s failure to care for its most vulnerable members.
scytale@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It does happen in some third world countries. Not sure for LA though.