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Stand in front of the soup kitchen with a bat, declare the kitchen to be "yours", and demand people pay you tribute for admission.

That doesn't make you a genius, just an asshole.

That would make you arrested.

In an ideal world, yes. Homeless people are frequently preyed upon though, particularly in less developed parts of the world.

At a much different scale, consider warlords that sell intercepted donated food to the people it was meant to go to for free. They aren't geniuses, just massive assholes.

This is the kind of thinking that ruins good things for everybody.

There you go.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/isle_take_that_welfare_sc...

No, it's not a soup kitchen. The point's the same. It's just people acting as parasites. Nothing brilliant about it.