> (2) Don’t automatically assume that a bum is telling the truth. Bums are generally very nasty and/or crazy people. This is not the 1930s - people do not become bums for no reason at all anymore.
Another sweeping generalization. Some of the greatest unhanged villains I have ever met have been in a corporate environment, wearing suits. Bums are *not* generally nasty and/or crazy people. Some people become bums for the lifestyle — which is a legitimate life choice.
You probably shouldn’t automatically assume that *anybody* is telling the truth: that’s just naieve. But there are no more liars amongst bums than there are amongst corporates. In fact, I would suspect that per capita there would be more lawyers and accountants in gaol for fraud and/or deception and/or dishonesty crimes than there are bums in gaol on similar convictions.
If so, why single out bums for your opprobrium?
Do you have stats to back this up, Noam Chomsky?
I've lived in NYC for 20 years and worked here for 18 years and spent 5 years living and working Chicago.
As a result, I have encountered unnumbered bums.
They are nasty or crazy or both and almost all of them have serious drug and alcohol problems.
Your romantic view of the carefree hobo is mythical nonsense, and your use of the word "corporate" as a derogatory term reveals the Marxism beneath the mythmaking.
With all due respect, you have zero idea what bums in America's cities are like.
This ain't hippy travelers in caravans.