The thing is, and this is something most normal people don't know or understand. Begging is actually fairly profitable, especially if you're/have a child or an attractive woman doing it.  Since normal people never beg, they imagine that only the truly downtrodden do it and that they will be happy if they get a dollar a day so they don't starve. The truth is however that many of them can make quite decent wages begging. If you know what to look for you ca  7b8  n often spot them sneaking away behind the store where they beg to call on their modern phones or smoke. Hiding the money/things you recieve and slowly eating a sandwich is industry standard. Especially in Europe where they can live cheap in their home country but travel to Germany or Sweden to beg. It's becomming a huge problem because the "beggars" get into fights, turf wars and even murder each other for the best spots.