While living the life of the middle class, it is remarkably easy to get caught up in the day to day existence and forgetting what is going on right around oneself. One of the key areas that are easy to miss is the plight of the destitute.
Sometimes, the destitute do not take the form of the vagabond sleeping on the streets. Indeed, they may even be the cheerful-looking geezer that really lives in a dingy rental. In fact, if the streets were cleaned up or if one lives in a "good" neighbourhood, it becomes difficult to even notice that anyone is struggling with life. At least in the economic sense.
This could perhaps create a sort of ambivalence towards being generous towards these people. The apparently cheerful geezer turns into a form of bogeyman-leech that is sucking money from the public coffers (which, naturally, should go straight to the complainant).
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