{"id":470,"date":"2005-09-23T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=470"},"modified":"2005-09-23T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T18:44:50","slug":"first-e-mail-spam-then-blog-spam-and-now-bum-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"First e-mail spam, then blog spam, and now? Bum-Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bumvertising\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, it WOULD be seedy web-entrepeneurs often known for their spam (namely, shady online poker sites) that would use bums as advertising, and it’s here to stay. What did the fine homeless chap above get from the kind bum-spammer? Why, the princely sum of $5, a package of Fig Newtons, and bottled water, according to the Seatlle Post-Intelligencer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now several times a week [Ben Rogovy, poker site entrepeneur] steps into his four-door Mercedes, dressed in a button-down shirt, and goes hunting, as he puts it, for “good, consistent beggars.” Then he makes an offer — a bit of food and water, plus $1 to $5, according to each panhandler’s relative value, a determination Rogovy calculates in his head, based largely on traffic patterns. In the past month, he has hired about a dozen vagrant sign-holders.<\/p>\n

“I am fascinated by these people, out there from dawn to dusk,” he said. “It was so much untapped labor. Some of them were working longer days than I was.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So is he helping the homeless by giving them a li’l cash, some water and maybe a morsel to feed on? Or is he exploiting them for cheap advertising, inciting vagrants to fill the landscape with his “irl spam” as they stand out in the hot sun instead of seeking shelter? I’ll let you be the judge of that one. But I have to say, the fact that guy has no qualms about “valuing” a homeless person as low as a dollar is pretty damned rough. Make you wonder what kind of sweat shop conditions this guy would want to impose if he were your<\/strong> boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it WOULD be seedy web-entrepeneurs known for spam – namely, shady online poker sites – that would use bums as advertising. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}