It's funny but simplistic. Let me ask a serious question:
Who here would actually hire the ambitious homeless guy that hangs out by the grocery store to their home to come do work?
Seriously. If you're walking in the grocery store parking lot and some homeless guy approaches you and says, "Take me to the place where you live, let me trim your hedges and cut your grass for $50," would you hire him?
I wouldn't. I don't like anyone that I'm not at least acquainted with working around my home near my children let alone some homeless dude I met in the Whole Foods' parking lot.
Sad, but honest. And I think most, if not all, of you also wouldn't invite some random homeless guy to your home either.
No matter how hard you may try to get work, someone's still gotta hire you - a bit of nuance not addressed in this "$50 Lesson".
So we send our $50 to the government who borrows another $20 (forty %) ands sets up a program by hiring people to administer at above private wage rates. After expenses (not to mention waste, graft, and fraud) about a third of the money filters down to the poor wretch that in past times would have been taken care of by charitable agencies.
The reason we distrust the homeless person to be near our homes and children is due to a lack of linkage between our lives and theirs. The antiseptic governmental buffer causes this.
You're right plunky it is not simple. Civilization is not antiseptic and simple.
While your response may be adjacently related to the topic (which you posted), it is adjacent (and it also proves me point).
I just posed a simple "yes or no" question in response to the simplistic moral lesson that you posted: Would you hire some random homeless guy to come do odd jobs at your home for $50? Yes or no?
Not only did you skillfully sidestep the point I was making, you also managed to deftly hijack your own thread.
William,
ReplyDeleteI saw "no comments" and for a minute I thought that it didn't need any. But I decided I would let you know I read it.
Priceless, if it was a true story or not.
Jean
nice one
ReplyDeleteI saw this before, it's been around for awhile.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny but simplistic. Let me ask a serious question:
Who here would actually hire the ambitious homeless guy that hangs out by the grocery store to their home to come do work?
Seriously. If you're walking in the grocery store parking lot and some homeless guy approaches you and says, "Take me to the place where you live, let me trim your hedges and cut your grass for $50," would you hire him?
I wouldn't. I don't like anyone that I'm not at least acquainted with working around my home near my children let alone some homeless dude I met in the Whole Foods' parking lot.
Sad, but honest. And I think most, if not all, of you also wouldn't invite some random homeless guy to your home either.
No matter how hard you may try to get work, someone's still gotta hire you - a bit of nuance not addressed in this "$50 Lesson".
It simply isn't that easy.
So we send our $50 to the government who borrows another $20 (forty %) ands sets up a program by hiring people to administer at above private wage rates. After expenses (not to mention waste, graft, and fraud) about a third of the money filters down to the poor wretch that in past times would have been taken care of by charitable agencies.
DeleteThe reason we distrust the homeless person to be near our homes and children is due to a lack of linkage between our lives and theirs. The antiseptic governmental buffer causes this.
You're right plunky it is not simple. Civilization is not antiseptic and simple.
Wow DI, LOL ...
ReplyDeleteWhile your response may be adjacently related to the topic (which you posted), it is adjacent (and it also proves me point).
I just posed a simple "yes or no" question in response to the simplistic moral lesson that you posted: Would you hire some random homeless guy to come do odd jobs at your home for $50? Yes or no?
Not only did you skillfully sidestep the point I was making, you also managed to deftly hijack your own thread.
That's impressive. Hats off, sir ...