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The Making of a Beggar: Rejecting Personal Responsibility

The Making of a Beggar: Rejecting Personal Responsibility

Buckley, Nick

Hardcover

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1680536796
ISBN13: 9781680536799
Publisher: Academica Pr
Published: Oct 6 2022
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Nick Buckley explores the relationship between givers and takers, and the damaging symbiotic relationship between them. He examines the motivation of disheveled individuals sitting on street corners holding out paper cups, as well as the intergenerational problem of poverty and welfare dependency. Different types of beggars are highlighted, such as politicians begging for votes, charities begging for donations, and even the woke begging for validation and attention. Buckley shows that begging is a complicated topic, part nature and part nurture, and that many engage in such behavior unknowingly. Unlike most authors on this topic, Buckley explores his own history of begging from being raised in a workless household on benefits, to claiming unemployment benefits as an adult, and the journey that eventually led him to found an award-winning charity. With this important book, Buckley offers us an antidote to such unbecoming behavior: personal responsibility.

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