Alms

I have a hard time mustering up much sympathy for your predicament. Sure, you are homeless and as your hand scrawled sign mentions that you need money for sustenance. Though you mention food and the like, one must assume what you need to sustain is something far more pressing. You look the part with the patina of grime and unkempt appearance, but you are a Caucasian man in his mid-twenties. Basically, society was created for you. All obstacles you face are self-created. You face neither the glass ceiling of sexism nor institutionalized racism. With basically a clear path to a normal average existence virtually guaranteed where you could fill your evenings with alcoholism and recreational drug use fairly unfettered, you ended up here. I am not saying that you brought this on yourself and you deserve it. But I am not contradicting that idea either.