Is this the Best new way to earn $50 in an hour?
By gamesurfer
@gamesurfer (629)
India
June 3, 2009 4:55am CST
I read an article in a blog very recently that a very well paid Lawyer quit his job and started begging on the streets and at traffic lights!!! His earnings ? An average of $50 an hour.
Can you believe this?
Even the Traffic light Beggars in MumbaI,India earn a lot.There are also several beggars who have 5 - 6 appartments on their name and are termed as the richest beggars!!
I would say this is the worst and most degraded way of living a life! Beggars are the most lazy people on the face of this earth.We feel sorry for them and give them alms They pester us and earn sometimes!
Do share your views and similar experiences with us all on this intruiguing topic!
You would have definitely faced atleast one beggar in your life, he may have been richer and earning more than you!
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15 responses
@gloamglozer (1289)
• Australia
3 Jun 09
There can be genuine beggers out there that could well be very needy of any help they can get. But also, there are some lazy ones too that only want to stir up our sympathy and pocket our hard earnt money while all they had to do was BEG for it. I've never heard of anyone who could make so much to even own an apartment that way at all!
The most I've heard of was a begger getting around $11 per hour. This was on the news one time and I still remember it. This isn't very fair and I think those people who beg when they can actually do hard work should be arrested for theft and deception of the general public. It's exactly what they are doing and it needs to be stopped!
On the other hand, I have seen beggers in the shopping malls that have horrible cancer on their feet and legs and in desperate need of money. I think these people deserve money more because they cannot afford treatment and cannot work due to this disability whereas the ones doing it as a scam deserve to be punished.
@gamesurfer (629)
• India
4 Jun 09
Hi gloam,
Totally agree with your part of the people who really need money and the people with horrible cancer on their feet and legs.They are the people who really need money!
What i want to bring to everybody's attention is the beggar who fakes that he needs money! I am talking about the person who thinks that begging is his only way to earn a livelihood being hale and healthy because he is used to the easy money and has become really lazy over a long period of time!
Also do you think the police will arrest a beggar? On what charge and for what will they be ready to arrest a horrible stinking disease prone person! If they do that The place will mostly be filled with genuinely poor persons!
Because a rich beggar will definatley have his contacts!
@flaredust (728)
• Indonesia
3 Jun 09
Yeah I think their "gross" earning may be higher than some office worker, but remember it is not "net". Every place in the world has its own beggar, and beggar also have their own mafia. They must give some fee to their "territory owner" and they pay using percentage which unfortunately bigger share is for their mafia boss, for them is may be just a couple small percent. What you mean about beggar who owned an apartment must be the one called "territory owner" there. That's why not every beggar so lucky or have power like him, most beggar only live by the share which only can be used for their daily meal.
@gamesurfer (629)
• India
3 Jun 09
Gross is the exact word to be used for these fellows!!
I think they might even start funding terrorists! well atleast the beggar mafia owner can!
@flaredust (728)
• Indonesia
4 Jun 09
No, is not like that. I just share some info about that, it is common thing but may be not much people aware about "beggar gang" like I told before. I mean it's going so far, when a beggar already tied to a gang, it is hard to them to runaway. This is serious problem and I absolutely disrespect this kind of "job". I don't appreciate lazy work like a beggar does, but I hate the leader of beggar gang even more, he squeeze a money from his "downline", it is worst than the beggar itself.
@pweety_princess (2012)
• Australia
3 Jun 09
That is very intersting.
Acting unemployed and earning more than an educated person.
If only those people knew that he was faking it. Imagine he met a person that knew him.
I've seen many beggers in my life. Sometimes it's easier to figure out the ones that are faking it. At times I might put 20 cents in. Not much, but it's something.
@gamesurfer (629)
• India
3 Jun 09
Thats the Worst Part. They act unemployed when they own something like half a dozen apartments!
To answer Your question of Imagining if he met a person he knew,My best guess would be they would beg together!
@nzalheart (2338)
• India
6 Jun 09
Hello again gamesufer!!!
Well that is the interesting thing I never heard of hehe...May be because people in Mumbai are rich, that's why it is possible. Or may be because the population of Mumbai is very high, a rupee from every person could let then earn more and more even 50$ in an hours, or this value 50$ is some of the exaggerated number written by the blogger.
Having 5-6 apartments, just from begging hehe...Too funny...May be the beggars are doings a business of begging lol...
I remember an old movie of Jackie Shrauf, Gardish. Where a beggar at first begs himself in bad condition. slowly he buys umbrella, and then cycle...And then he becomes richer. Then he stops begging and gives his begging seat to the other beggar, then give this beggar a salary hehe...May be that's going on in real life...
Interesting post...
Happy mylotting...
@lethalboy (112)
• India
3 Jun 09
Ya i think it is more profitable but what would be your diginity if you beg even while you can earn you will have no status in the society a man who earns with hard work rather than begging is always respected who will marry her daughter/son to a beggar no one would probably do it i myself got a mail from a friend he showed a beggar in mumbai with 17crore worth property to his name and earning 1Lakh Rs a month isn;t it whoopping but what the use no one respects not his daughter nor his son nor his wife dnt talk to him so i bette say leave a respectful life
@gamesurfer (629)
• India
4 Jun 09
Hi lethalboy,
Yeah spending our life with dignity,self respect and decency in the society is definitely of utmost priority to everyone and definitely everyone would want to live such a quality life!
I also have one question for you. Do you think the beggars that you see daily on the very next road corner is a married family man? Do you think that they would be having a son and a daughter who will be studying in a college like harvard and this person is begging in order to feed his enormous family? First of all Can he be atleast married to have a blood line? No i dont think so! Like you rightly said who will marry his son or daughter to a beggar.
Most of the beggars would be orphans and those who really do not care about dignity or any kind of self respect and they are ready to stoop to any level to earn a dollar! Thats the reason why once they learn the tips and tricks of the trade they become lazy and start to enjoy their daily leisurely life which would incidentally get them, as you said a whooping 1Lakh a month.
@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
26 Jun 09
In the Philippines, there's a bill or law, that prohibit beggar in the street. But we cannot avoid that there are many unscrupulous person using beggar as trade. This what we call syndicate. But some are professional beggar, means they did this as their jobs. Like Religions that using bible's to ask alms in the street, market, and the bus. This are all prohibited by laws...but there are real beggar that needs some money to live.
@lronMaiden (993)
• Finland
3 Jun 09
Wow, not too bad! I don't think beggars here in Finland get that much though, since I've almost never seen anybody give money to them. Some magazine also made a little test here and they got only something like $5 an hour... I guess we finns are just really stingy 
@JOIEMARVIC (2335)
• Philippines
4 Jun 09
Wow, a beggar earns more than i do considering I have spent half of my life studying to be able to land in a good job. NOw you got me really thinking hard. I guess I really have to do something more productive with my life.
@pratyushtamhankar (859)
• India
4 Jun 09
I guess a business is a business. I mean, tell me, if the guy's earning $50 an hour, why would he think what he's doing ?
People work the whole day cleaning the railway tracks, breaking stones, collecting garbage and stuff like that so if someone's earning so much doing nothing, just going to people asking for their money, then why would that guy think twice ?
As you gave the lawyer example, if only there were employment everywhere, these people would not had to do these things then...
@stafei (98)
• China
4 Jun 09
I don't believe....pls share it with us.One hour can earn 50 doller.I really want to know how to do it and have such life.So I will have 300doller every hour and have 2400 doller every day if I have 8 hour working time.How about every month?How about every year?haha~~~So good!I really like such life.
@leiann_561 (332)
• Philippines
3 Jun 09
Yes I agree with you. Individuals should you use their talents, skills, energy in making money. People should not be lazy. They should work hard to make a living.
@tpayne33 (52)
• United States
4 Jun 09
Now for me I can't condemn a beggar for being out on the street. For one thing, I know what it is like being on the street with no place to go. Some of them feel they don't have a chose but to beg and others just give up on life. For me I got evicted from the house I was living in by a landlord who tried to shaft us with the rent and everything else. At that time, I didn't have no one or no place to go. I had to really eat a piece of "humble pie" to call my family to come and get me out of that situation. I'm not say that begging should be someone's job or that a person should quit their job to beg. It's hard to be out on the street and try to provide for yourself without any help. Someone may be able to get $50 dollar an hour begging,but I would try it,especially the way things are now and days.
