While I do agree that criminalization of homelessness is a violation of freedom and I don't support this legal action, I will say a quote you may have heard before, "there is no nobility in poverty." Last night I went out to eat at a nice restaurant in a shopping mall. As I'm returning to my Audi, stomach full, with a wallet full of cash, a debit card, and multiple credit cards, a women who was wondering around begged me for a couple dollars or the food that I was taking home. I said no, and I would say no if that same situation happened 1000 more times. What I've found as I've been building a base of wealth and learning how to increase it, is that money is actually an unlimited resource. The money in my pocket, in my accounts, in the form of my assets, is not money that I have taken from someone else, because money is unlimited. The super rich are not taking money from the super poor. While, yes, the super rich are enabling a bottleneck to which the super poor have difficulty acquiring this unlimited resource, that doesn't change the fact that it is still unlimited. I do not find sympathy in a poor person, because I know that they can become rich if they educated themselves and moved themselves to a position with which they can become rich. Both of these requirements to getting rich do not actually cost anything. Former education costs money, yes, but with the existence of the Internet, former education is not a requirement to educate yourself.