"Let me see if I understand you." I said. "You think these people prefer to live meaner than any animal. That they are so unwilling to work that they would rather sleep on the ground in the cold, go without food, beg coin from strangers in the most humiliating way possible, and live in filthy rags? That is, of course, assuming that they are mentally stable enough to hold work or even have such rudimentary skills as reading, writing, or arithmetic. How silly of me to be so completely fooled by their clever charade.