In yesterday’s post, Wired.com revealed “The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW“. People are understandably outraged at the idea that homeless people might be taken advantage of, however I’m not sure I feel that way about this particular situation. Are we becoming oversensitive? Is this really any different from an MBA with 15 years experience waiting tables because he’s been unemployed, or a teenager with a paper route because he’s not qualified to do anything else but still wants to earn money? Are we upset about the program itself, or the dystopian language on the T-shirts? Are we letting the sponsoring company’s potentially bad rep from a previous project get in the way of doing good this time? Or am I just reading this wrong…..thoughts?

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