I keep telling folks that over half the ones here do this as their job. They are dropped of in the morning by a “pimp” if you will who gives them a cell phone and picked up in the evening. They split the proceeds. If they can collect more than $64 in an 8 hour day they are making out better than someone making $8/hr after you take out taxes. Homeless my ares.
Ever wonder why you don’t see them on weekends? Are they not homeless then as well. They are off just like you and I are...
There is a guy in Columbia Missouri. I laugh when I see him begging in his Nike shoes and NorthFace coat.