Don’t knock tips! As an illustrative example, I offer an old gaffer here in Vancouver, Canada, who has staked out an intersection of a major highway and cross-town thoroughfare for years. He wears clothes vaguely resembling a traffic control worker on a construction site, complete with home-made orange and yellow vest, and walks slowly up the side of the highway at the intersection when the light is red, approaching drivers.

Perportedly, according to “streeters” who should know, he clears about $700/day.

Gawd only knows what he does with it. Some street drugs are pricier than others, I suppose!