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Title: Homeless bums used as WIFI Hotspots paid $20.00 a day.
Post by: Soul Crusher on March 13, 2012, 07:13:52 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/technology/homeless-as-wi-fi-transmitters-creates-a-stir-in-austin.html

Title: Re: Homeless bums used as WIFI Hotspots paid $20.00 a day.
Post by: howardroark on March 13, 2012, 09:49:00 AM

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But as word of the project spread on the ground and online, it hit a nerve among many who said that turning down-and-out people into wireless towers was exploitative and discomfiting.

Yes, exactly. Allowing the homeless to earn money is exploitative!

Title: Re: Homeless bums used as WIFI Hotspots paid $20.00 a day.
Post by: 240 is Back on March 13, 2012, 10:01:43 AM

how the hell is it 'exploitive'?

It's a lot less demeaning than being a human sandwich board.

This is just people being fcking crybabies.  Take the job or dont.  For someone with nothing to do - $20 to just chill on the corner all day - that's $600 a month.   That's over $7k a year for 'chilling'. 

Title: Re: Homeless bums used as WIFI Hotspots paid $20.00 a day.
Post by: Agnostic007 on March 13, 2012, 12:28:01 PM

and of course it is somehow Obama's fault.....  ;D

Title: Re: Homeless bums used as WIFI Hotspots paid $20.00 a day.
Post by: Vince G, CSN MFT on March 13, 2012, 01:58:21 PM

Yea, what the fuck does this have to do with Obama