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panhandlers may not even be actually poor themselves, and some actually refuse to work or get help(the worst ones are probably upper middle class with no job), that delegitimizes the actual downtrodden people.
I’m not sure why you’re downvoted.
I live in a country where I make roughly 85€ per day. My job is close to a mall in a touristy area and there is this woman, clearly foreign-looking (adds to the “I can’t work” aesthetic), begging with a little board claiming she has 4 kids and needs to feed them.
Thousands of people walk into and out of that mall every day, and I’ve seen that woman get money from begging several times, 5€ bills and shit.
Months later she’s still there. Makes me wonder, with that amount of money people are handing out, she’s probably making more money than me in a day just from sitting on her ass.
It depends a lot where you are, really. I'm from Finland and if someone is begging in the street corner, they're always non-natives, usually from Romania, and they've been brought here by criminal gangs to collect as much money as possible. Even with the worsening flaws in our system (thanks to right wing extremists), begging is still something you don't do to get by, so this is easy to spot. Giving them money just makes the criminals use more people