Provide brief account of Orwell’s opinion on the social position of beggers
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It is worth saying something about the social status of beggars, because when one makes friends with them and finds that they are ordinary human beings, one cannot help but be curious about them in society. That a beggar does not "earn" a living is taken for granted any more than a bricklayer or a literary critic does. It is a mere social outgrowth, tolerated because we live in humane times, but essentially contemptible. However, if one looks carefully, one finds that there is no fundamental difference between the livelihood of a beggar and countless decent people. I do not think there is anything about the beggar that puts him in a different class from the rest, or that gives most modern men a right to despise him. Then the question arises: Why are beggars despised? – because they are generally despised.
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