As I pull up to lock my bike to a trash can I overhear two homeless men in deep discussion. “Do you drink coffee? Do you still drink beer?” Standard fare for the area. I go in the building, make my delivery, come out and here a whole new conversation, from the same men. “You see, if you own a house on that corner and you let a business, let’s say a deli, build their shop next to you. Then after 10 years you have just rezoned your area. You are setting a precedent for building codes in your area. I’m telling you, I don’t know when it happened, but America is Corporation Domination.”
I thought to myself, why are these guys homeless? They know more about commercial rezoning principles than I will in a lifetime. Or care to to know for that matter. But I do drink coffee, I do drink beer, and I do not want to set a precedent for corporation domination! So next time I see a homeless person, I won’t judge what they will do with the money if they ask me for some. I’ll just give ‘em some, they will most likely buy coffee or beer. But maybe they will teach me complex economic systems.
