There used to be a local bum, kept a dog in a baby carriage. He would ask people for money to buy dog food. He made more money than I did.
I have lived on the street and know very well enough some people couldn't so well work a "job" slave laboring for someone else, but they could very well "hustle", to make just as much as if working for someone else.
A story was once told about an old woman in new orleans. She was followed one day from her place in the tourist trap business streets where people would give her money to her high dollar car and highly valued home.