[HN Gopher] A New Look at the Hobo
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A New Look at the Hobo
Author : seventyhorses
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-08-25 17:44 UTC (1 days ago)
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| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I started busking cause it's been hard to find enough gigs to
| keep me happy and practicing the accordion is both more fun on a
| street corner and less grating for the neighbors in my apartment.
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| It's been kind of interested to meet some of the other folks who
| are on the street for various reasons. I did sound for a festival
| and there were a bunch of folks who had just been at Rainbow...
| now that same little crew is camping out near the town where I
| live. I see them sometimes and they join up.
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| It'e really hard to make tips... when these folks are with me, I
| don't get the bigger bills any more.
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| While it's true that a lot of folks who are living rough are
| doing it because they have no choice, between the dirtbag
| climbers I climb with sometimes, the crusty punks I grew up
| around, and the itinerant musicians I've been hanging out with,
| there is a large segment of folks who choose to be outside.
|
| For all that, it's -still- a really bad idea to romanticize
| living rough.
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| Where I live, I get the idea that most folks don't think people
| who don't own property are actual humans-- much less the folks
| who won't or can't pay rent. And the systems of power around us
| treat folks consistently with that outlook. People get beat down
| really fast, and it can be really hard for folks to get back into
| some place or other once they've been living in a car or on the
| street for more than a couple years.
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