[Tycho]

What about Venmo for beggars. Cities in the UK have foreign beggars camped outside every grocery store near the city centres. Locals do not know what to make of this. Are they desperately poor, or part of a scam to exploit people’s generosity? Do they make £10 per day or £200? What can the authorities do if there’s no law against it?

If there was a sort of begging venmo app where you could donate money, but it only worked up to a certain limit each day, then at least you’d know the public was not being exploited by professional beggars, and genuine beggars would see a bigger share of the public’s generosity.

It could even go further and show what the money gets spent on (in aggregate), so we could definitively answer debates like whether beggars spend all their money on drugs/alcohol.

[pathartl]

Or we could implement a basic standard of living where we don't have to have beggars.

[Tycho]

How?