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sfgate: "how come there are so many people out on the street all day, seemingly not working?"

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There are helpful statistics to shed light on the out-and-about. In 2005, 14 percent of San Franciscans 5 and older reported a disability -- nearly 100,000 people. Over 40,000 people were self-employed. Almost 70,000 were in college or grad school. Stereotypes about the contemporary human condition aside, a great many people don't inhabit cubicles.

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"John," who is 18 and was strolling through Yerba Buena Gardens one Thursday morning, laid out his typical itinerary: "Watch the grass grow, get high, hit on the ladies." How does he pay rent? "If you ask 100 girls for $10, that's $1,000, that's rent," he explained logically. How does he get them to part with their $10? "I tell them I can't live without them," he answered, with some disappointment at the caliber of question, as though he'd been asked how many moons our planet has.

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Aren't we the country that other countries make fun of for working too much?

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Keith Kessler, 38, assumes the other laptoppers are mostly Web designers or students. He himself is a lawyer at a downtown firm. He's been there long enough that he can do legal research or work on a memo from here.

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Shauna, 24. "I don't work. I'm a trust-fund baby," she said, with a nice mix of self-deprecation and not-too-much self-deprecation. What did she do today? "Got up at noon. Farted around. Made corn on the cob. Went to buy a shirt. Came to Ritual."

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