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RESOLUTION NUMBER 3: You will give money to a bum every day.
I don't know about your town, but here in New York there are different kinds of bums. There are the salesmen bums who sift through garbage (or steal stuff), then resell it on the street. There are the musicians, who stand with a two-string guitar and sing Me and Bobby McGee 300 times a day. There are the subway crawlers, who go from car-to-car guilting passengers into giving money because they "just got out of the hospital, have no money, and the same thing could happen to you." And there are the plain ole bums, who say hello, shake a cup and don't really ask for anything.
To discourage the work ethic, I only give to plain old bums. It's the ideal economic arrangement. I give because I want to give. No product changes hands. No environmental damage is done. I feel better having given out of my own free will. The recipient feels better having received without degrading himself in something as horrible as work.
Giving money to a bum every day-- and talking about it-- encourages others to do the same. It encourages bum-dom. It encourages an ethic where we don't live our lives as a series of trades for things. But where we give and receive only because we exist.

read more:
Mykel's Other Blog: Mykel's Column for MRR 273