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What did you learn from panhandling?

Here is what I learned from panhandling.

You have to live your lifestyle without asking.

Here is why.

Suppose you are a beggar.

Some people give you things you did not want when you ask them for what you wanted.

• There are people who give you money when you ask for a job and food.
• There are people who give you food when you ask for money and a job.

Here is the other thing about asking for things.

You cannot receive everything you want with money ("social favor") because

• You must ask for money to receive money (in a transaction).
• There is no guarentee people will give you what you want by asking them.
• So, you cannot buy everything you want with money.

Suppose you ask for food and receive money.

You are receiving social favor when you wanted food, with their assumption you use the social favor to acquire food. However, the amount of social favor required to purchase the food can always be changed; as well as the cost to transport.

Capitalism is an economic system which has you expect the social favor cost of a food and transport does not change at random when there are multiple suppliers for this food and transport. However, there isn't a guarentee there are multiple suppliers for everything you want; or that a supplier will not ask for other things (e.g., time waiting in a line) when you enter a transaction.

So, your receipt of money does not matter unless the money gets you what you want. Then, the monetary cost of what you want is not guarenteed to change at random.

Suppose an entity gives you money then controls the price of food in this scenario.

Nothing stops this entity from giving you lots of money, but then subsequently changing the price of food so you can't afford it.

What happens when this entity is "everyone else"?

Everyone else gives you money (e.g., for work), but then everyone else subsequently changes the prices of things so you can't afford them.

Then, you cannot only use money (i.e., social favor) to live your lifestyle. So, you cannot only ask people for social favor to live your lifestyle. So, you cannot ask people to live your lifestyle.

You have to live your lifestyle without asking.

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The closest model of this scenario exists in a chicken farm.

Suppose you are a chicken.

You can either live on a farm where

• You are provided shelter and food.
• You are forced to live near certain chickens.
• You are forced to give your babies up for consumption.
• You have the small chance to be selected by the farm owners to exempt your babies from consumption.
• Your death is scheduled and you are unaware of how it happens (in a slaughterhouse).

You can either live outside the farm where

• You must find your own shelter.
• You must find your own food.
• You must determine your social group.
• You have the chance to have babies without their immediate consumption, but
• You and babies have a larger risk of death which occurs at random.

Which chicken are you?

You are the chicken on the farm when you are satisfied by living on the farm.

You are the chicken in the wild when you are satisfied by living in the wild.

You are the chicken who must change their environment when you are not satisfied with the life you are living in either location.

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Suppose you are a chicken on the farm who wants your babies to survive, but isn't selected by the farm owners and cannot get what you want by providing the farm owners more social favor.

Farm owners gain more social favor when chickens produce eggs and the chickens who are selected for produce the most eggs, but you have a genetic limit to "the amount of eggs you can produce in a given time" which means you

• cannot provide the farm owners more social favor.
• therefore, you cannot get what you want by providing the farm owners more social favor.

What is your solution?

You have to leave the farm (e.g., physically, mentally by not complying to its rules, etc) or become the owner of the farm and then satisify yourself or find something else the farm owner selects for.

So, this example represents an extreme example of how living in society works.

• Your economic output requires personal sacrifices, unless your personal way of living leads to economic output (aka doing what you want makes money).
• Your economic reward either satisfies you or it doesn't.

What can you do when you aren't satisfied with your lifestyle due to money?

You can either leave your society (e.g., physically, mentally by not complying to its rules, etc) or become the owner and satisfy yourself or find another resource used to satisfy yourself.