A lad told me today that he’ll make a facebook account just to connect with me, gave me the address of the place he’s couch surfing at and told me to come over anytime. He said “because you treat me like a human.”
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I’ve gotten in trouble at a few jobs for talking with poor people rather than just shuffling them through.
It helps that I have to walk through the hood frequently.
I have smoked weed and drink some booze with some lumpenproletarians a few times and stuff but generally they end up fucking you over and stealing shit from you or are way too high and end up getting in trouble, although these are lumpens from the third world, from what I have seen in Usonia they are pretty different since being poor/homeless in the first world is completely different.
I would give it a try if you see he will not fuck things up and you think you can be friends, but be prepared to be asked for money/food every now and then.
Chomsky spoke a little about this and i’ve heard this on the street. Crime is a major problems for the poor and not a problem for the rich/middleclass. The ‘rich’ live in gated communities in suburbs far away from the poor. The poor also live in (over)crowded houses with complete strangers (rooming houses) making theft inside those households rampant. But yeah homeless ppl have told me when they’ve been in shelters/camps there has been a lot of theft too