roland comments on AndrewH's observation and opportunity costs - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Yvain 23 July 2009 11:36AM

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Comment author: roland 24 July 2009 01:06:49AM 5 points [-]

Good point! I live in Brazil and in some places you can actually rent babies to improve your success at begging as a woman.

Also what will the beggars do with the money? The truth is most of them will spend it on drinks. Begging attracts a certain type of persona, why do you want to encourage it instead of giving a help to people who are not begging? In some cases beggars will actually make more money than people doing serious work.