alt Hacker NewsThe beggars are professionals almost every single time. To the point where they have licenses from the state to beg (my friends were filming an amateur film in Rome and were stopped by the Guardia because they thought my friends were breaking the law by impersonating a Gypsy.)
I don’t believe that for those I saw. Do you have a link to anything explaining begging licences?
Begging barefoot at zero degrees, poor health, dirty and miserable. I don’t see this as anything other than grinding poverty.
If I’m wrong, a sum that doesn’t matter to me was grifted.
Your explanation is convenient for the conscience.