ABSTRACT
Begging moreover is only one manifestation of a way of life that is widely practiced in poor places. The very best education can enable a person to become a highly-productive and highly-paid employee, but by itself it does not guarantee that he will actually be effective in life. It is always possible for even the highest-paid laborer to fritter away the wages he is paid, and at heart to remain wedded to poverty and dependence. The poor beg because they have nothing more useful to do with their time, or because they think they have nothing more important to do with their time. The poor are freed from the financial treadmill that keeps them expending dollars of potential created value in order scrape for pennies. Everything has a price which both rewards the enterprising few who provide that thing, and that limits the desires of the many who want to have some of it.
