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“Suburban Begging” 0

Recently, I read a column that asserted that GoFundMe and similar online fundraising sites have fostered a phenomena which the columnist referred to as “suburban begging”: persons’ asking for money just because they can. The author’s primary evidence was the potato salad caper, which is sooooo last year.

I can’t find the original (if I do, I shall link it up), but the second letter in today’s agony column suggests that the columnist was onto something.

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