There are poor people that come to the window of your taxi and beg, often holding babies. The advice given here is not to give them money. That is the advice people give in NY, too. In NY, though, I assume that people cannot starve, even if they are poor…there is welfare, soup kitchens, homeless shelters. What happens to the poor people here? How close to the edge are they? Where do you start, and where do you end, when the problem is so huge and overwhelming? Do you give to some and not others? Adam said it would be easier if people were performing in some way, the way musicians do in NY. Then you would feel like you are rewarding someone for entertaining you. Adam also commented that it is easier since they are begging in another language that we don’t understand…. It would be more unbearable if you actually understood their profound tales of woe.
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