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kleinbl00  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 12, 2014

if you have skillz and money, you call AAA or google "roadside service." Here's the trick: we're empathetic to trouble, we've all been there and into this chasm parachutes the con artist.

Think about it: If you have any sort of social net, you call your social net. If you have no sort of social net, you rely on paid services. If you have no social net and no ability to rely on paid services, you're staring into the abyss of homelessness.

And nobody wants to be the person who pushes another human being (or beings) into the abyss of homelessness, so we try and help. And we lose money and sometimes worse.