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Barter.

"homeless economy"?
Oh, you must be talking about the real estate market!

labor camps

>>15232074
What if they dont speak English or cant effectively barter due to the influence of drugs?

>>15232061
Barter along with gold/silver. So many brainlets on this board recently. We are being over run with shit tier FUD threads and just plain flat out stupid mother fuckers recently.

>>15232061
Cashless is for advanced nation where all the homeless aren't truly homeless anyway. They're begging for drugs not food.

>>15232101
The free market will magically solve that. Don't question our Free Market God, because the only alternative is fucking Stalinism.

>>15232129
You're unironically right tho. The Free market is based as fuck

>>15232101
you don't need to barter with language for sex. Sex and whoredom are universally understood.

>>15232061
being a homeless beggar is the most shameful thing a human can do, i dont know how these people have the nerve to go askinig around for free shit. I've seen beggar men in their 20s and 30s and beggar women with 3 or 4 kids asking for change, pathetic.
I'd rather kill myself than be in that situation, hopefully thats what they do in this 'cashless society'

>>15232124
>Barter along with gold/silver
You're going to hand over your Rolex to a homeless person? You frequently carry around Krugerrands?

The homeless economy is heavily invested in consumables (cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, Big Macs etc), without a constant stream of income it will collapse. You can't trade a Greggs cheese and onion pastie after you've eaten it.

>>15232144
So we should expect the cost of prostitutes to decrease as contactless payments become more and more accepted?

>>15232175
>cigarettes
a carton of NewPorts is a better safety weapon than a pistol. I've seen it calm down a hoard in real life. Get a carton before menthol is banned.

>>15232061
Cigarette-based cash. A packet of cigarettes will be tied to one US dollar, believe you me.

They’ll start carrying card readers

>>15232061
professional homeless already have square card readers
i guess every homeless would have a square card reader in a cashless society

>>15232273
This

>>15232175
Thank you for further proving my point! You can't even fucking read, so you will be completely fucked if/when it all goes down.

>>15232061
WE'RE JUST GONNA KILL 'EM!

>>15232101
good riddance

>Give 5 bucks to homeless guy
>See him later in a convenience store buying alcohol
Yup, that's the end of my sympathy.

>>15232171
Based and redpilled

>>15232061
I don't know. I always see some homeless faggot standing on the corner trying to make me feel guilty, but dude, I NEVER have cash! Get a fucking job or something dude, NOBODY has cash!

>>15232101
you can still sucks dicks tho

>>15232361
Dude wtf is he supposed to do? Use that five bucks to start a business lmao. I never give homeless money I just give them booze, cut out the middle man. I completely empathise with wanting to just numb yourself until death.

>>15232129
You're more right than you'd think.

>>15232171
Well its a combination of being a bit of a lazy and stupid person leading to lots of drug use and little skill. Then the drug use increases leading to increasingly depraved acts to fund it. By the time they're begging on the street they've already stolen from their friends, their siblings and their parents.

Kind of like linkies

>>15232273
Already seen it a few times.

>>15232061
Implying most homeless don't have smartphones

>>15232506
some of them are simply gone crazy, there is an old beggar in my town, dude used to be an well respected engineer and had a family, now he wanders the street collecting garbage and getting by. What kind of fucked up stuff has to happen for you to end up like that i cant understand

>>15232061
Honey buns, virtually imperishable, consumable, already used in jails, the perfect currency for the homeless.

They'll actually be better off than the average person who's used to a cozy and pampered lifestyle. They'll have an advantage of already being familiar with how the bottom works.

>>15232556
Maybe he likes it. I often fantasize about living like that. Once I pay off my debts, I might give it a go for a while. It's one of few adventures accessible to me or anybody. Spiritually, it's legit: give everything away and own a set of clothes alone.

>>15232603
maybe its cool to do (most likely not) in some town on a beautiful mountain, but in the big city? i really cant find the appeal

>>15232083
Subtle and under appreciated

>>15232558
Faster TPS than Bitcoin

>>15232061
https://www.google.com/search?q=beggar+qr+code+china

They have cell phones. Don't believe me, head on down to your local shelter.

>>15232719
>bitcoin can be blocked by exchanges
>honeybun always good and tasty

>>15232061
The signs will just feature their respective codes.

>>15232361
Dude, the guys are addicted. They know they need to stop. Even if they don't - whatever man, tough situation. I'm not the one who controls what I choose necessarily. My upbringing granted me the privilege to research on the internet and to use my extra time to build myself. At the beginning of the period of free time I was a total hedonist because that was my look on life. These things take time to figure out. Until then, let them have their beer/drugs once and a while while they are forced to think. Let's hope they take advantage eventually and realize their situation. God willing.

>>15232603
>give everything away and own a set of clothes alone
This is one of my dreams. Achieve whatever you need to satisfy your ego and then go on adventures. Though, I feel the need to keep on earning money to help others.