Homeless People Turned into Walking Wi-Fi Hotspots

[Guest]

Awesome idea...I'd totally pay $2 for some quick wifi access when I needed it. You feel good about doing it, and you benefit from getting internet access at the same time. It's such an awesome win-win situation. They should do projects like this in more places I think!

 

[halcyon]

I'd like to try this...could be fun. I can also see this as a good way for some young folks to make money and have fun. It might catch on.

 

[jstenman]

Sounds like something out of a South Park episode.

 

[SteelCity1981]

what is so wrong with this? They are giving homeless people work. It's not like they took a bunch of homles people off the street and kidnapped thenm and blind folded them and taped their mouth and sent them to some remote warehouse and tied them up to be a hot spot for near by areas where a lot of people are. I mean come on. Instead of being offended by this those people should applaud this company for giving homeless people work.

 

[elcentral]

hahaha. hobo-wifi epic.

 

[Crush3d]

If they paid high school kids 50 dollars and allowed them to keep these donations (tips) for walking around with their phone for a few hours no one would cry one bit (In fact they'd probably make more in 1 day of doing this than 1 day working minimum wage). Give a jobless/homeless person the same opportunity and every "moral person" in the world has a hissy fit.

Get over yourselves.

 

[freggo]

Have WIFI...will travel

ok, bit lame. But the idea is not bad.
Discriminating ? I don't see why and how.
Providing a valuable service instead of standing at the intersection with a 'need food' sign is certainly appreciated by those unfortunate enough to be homeless as well as by those in need of a quick fix for a FB update.

 

[pedro_mann]

So the article doesn't really state this, but the headline makes it sound like they are wearing wifi equipment, which would sorta be bad considering we don't know the full effect of wireless radiation. But upon further reading it makes it sound like they are just advertising a service, which I think is a really creative idea, as it benefits the company but also provides work for homeless people, many of whom suffer from mental ilnesses.

What I find funny about the social media aspect, is if you polled the same people they would proabably be in the crowd of people who think homeless people should go get a job instead of holding up signs. But at work I'm sure they would also complain about that person because of their mental illnesses. Giving homeless people the ability to earn about $50 to $100 a day is actually enough to get them out of the homelsess category. Impessive actually.

 

[Guest]

Wow, and to think that I thought homeless people either didn't exist, or were never mentioned when a Democrat is in office. This is a banner day, despite the fact that someone is still using the vulnerable as a tool.

 

[rosen380]

You know what? I work for a company with an operating income of about $4B and 50k employees. That is, the company is making $80k after all expenses on every single one of them.

If the average employee makes maybe $25k after work related expenses [taxes, gas, business attire, dry cleaning, etc], then they are making more than $3 for every dollar an employee puts in the bank. Maybe it is the big corps exploiting the working class...?

 

[hoof_hearted]

So giving them a "job" is degrading?

 

[viciouz2000]

whats to stop these people from keeping that mobile hotspot equipment, its just small rectangle box smaller than a standard cell phone and very thin. unless they giving them the old outdated hotspot boxes?? well, i guess they got gps on these hotspots so they can track it down.

 

[hoof_hearted]

They have proximity explosives in them.

 

[rosen380]

Relative to the $250 minimum in wages per hotspot, the box doesn't cost a whole lot...

 

[Guest]

Rufus approves.