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What are your thoughts on giving money to beggars? (reddthat.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Pro@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works

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I am asking because I know people from both sides:

People who discourage it: usually talk about how the beggars might spend their money on, how they might be lying, How donating to them will encourage them to keep begging and how they should be looking for a job instead (My commentary: finding a job is impossible for them this days, matter of fact there is literally hundreds, if not thousands of articles online talking about how hard and impossible it had become).
People who encourage it: to be honest here, they usually talk only about religious reasons.

(Note: I know that the overview about both sides are highly unbalanced, but I preferred to keep it limited to my personal experiences rather than expanding it from myself, as I intentionally not looking for theories and objective logic, rather I am looking at people reasons and opinions as this is highly subjective matter.)

Anyone got any thoughts about this?

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[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The "best" choice is probably to give money to responsible shelters and supporting programs to reintigrate homeless into society.
I do give sometimes money to homeless, its dependent on it i have change and mood.

I know its not the best course of action but i will probably simply continue doing that until someone throws some scientific papers about me at it (because thinking about it too much is depressing to me)

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

This casts it as something that is wrong with the person, but homelessness, hunger, and want are not inevitable consequences of who we are, they are forced on us by the ruling class. Homelessness is not an accident. We suffer by design. The "best" choice is to reverse the wealth disparity that has grown so oppressively since the last time everything fell down.