Give money to people if you feel like being generous, regardless of what you think they may or may not do with it.

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Street performers aren’t homeless, they just do that as a job. Homeless people with a card reader isn’t something I’ve seen before but I know it does happen.

People don’t carry cash, 99% of homeless people only accept cash. Therefore it’s bad for them.

I think your comment is definitely skewed to a US perspective though, I’ve definitely seen Americans mention like “it’s a nice area but there’s a lot of homeless people” and similar things, which would be a weird thing to say in the UK. However I still agree that even in the Uk there isn’t a lot of care/respect for them sometimes and a lot of people lack empathy for their situation.

Well, to be fair, the universe is pretty bad at noticing things

This is shower thought it's true but I think everyone should carry some cash on themselves at all times. Even if you never use cash. Mostly it's important to have cash on you because your phone may break. Carrying some money on yourself isn't hard, doesn't weight, and in the unlikely chance that you run into a problem, it can help you out.

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I visited London in 2019 and it was pretty common there to see beggars/street preformers with card readers. Looked pretty bizarre to me but I'm happy it helps them survive.

If I have some spare cash I will always give it to them but never ever in my life will I pay a homeless person by card.

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Exactly.

Also the cube square law means that falling isn't exactly dangerous to them, not even at terminal velocity. It's an inconvenience at worst.

Grasshoppers have wings and can choose where and when they land.

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How could you take that seriously?

Try a kickboxing match with a kangaroo. Pound for pound that welterweight whoops some ass against a heavyweight human.

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..but does he just assume that you have access to an endless supply of kibble? My cat will never understand what i have to do to get that kibble.

That's a fair point. All I'm saying is it doesn't not make that one homeless person's day. Maybe you see the same people every day after a while.

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Depends on if you have an automatic feeder or not but great shower thought.