Originally Posted by
DropBarFan
I don't think your original post was intended to be snide. However this Wasson woman is a ******, though I guess with her age & insulated perspective one can't be too critical. Many homeless work or want to; I've read about folks in Silicon Valley who make incomes higher than US avg but live in their cars due to high housing costs. Heh, anybody remember the dystopian dark comedy movie Americathon? Released in '79 but was about US in 1998: US was flat broke, the country was being auctioned off & you were middle-class if you had a car to live in. Upper-middle class if you buy a liter of gasoline now & then.
You said,
Many homeless work or want to, and that's what I was musing about --e.g., about how you would or could groom and dress on a daily basis as a homeless person on a bike if you were actually concerned about looking like someone who was,
employable? Who, for example, is going to employ a bum on a bike?
Some on this thread make it sound like it makes no difference what someone looks like when looking for a employee. They probably are people who have spent their entire lives doing everything possible to avoid working in the free enterprise sector of the economy.
Whether people bother to wash their clothes or shampoo their hair matters. My thought is, people who actually want work at least look employable.
Even if they're on a 10-day tour, a bicycle tourist will continue to maintain certain standards (even tho they already have a job and aren't looking for another one a thousand miles away from home). Bicycle tourists wash their cycling shorts and hang'm off the back of the bike to dry because they can: they have a second pair. Tourists may not have blow dryers but they still maintain standards and don't grudge spending the time it takes to wash off the grime of a 70 mile bike ride.