If they make a working society, they're not bums, are they?

yes they can and they can apply to re-enter the Bum-free society.

This article was intended as "for-argument-sake" type hypothesis but look what happned, from the first few comments no less:

All of a sudden the people who always said that those Bums are hopeless, good-for-nothing and lazy now they actually believe that these same Bums are not that at all, and these same people are willing to take risks on them and invest in them and actually believe that they can get them to work and produce money for them. not for the bums of course.

That is a great unintended consequence of this article.

The hard-nose conservatives actually believe that the bums are a messed-up-resource that can be reformed and used productively to make money. even if the bums get very little and most of that money goes to the Bum-Capitalists, still it is better for the bums. at least they make something and they get something.

The only restriction is that no capital goes there, get the bums to start their own things there like distributors, sales,...etc. no capital of people go from here to there. Let them swim on sink by themselves.

Awwww, you're gonna hurt the BUMS' feelings unless you give them the feelgood liberal term, "homeless".

"Non-contributing members"

The "Bum" title is not enough?

well, they can have "homeless" too and practice it as much as they like. no problem. I dont want to hurt their feelings at all. let them just go away.

Well, considering that bums are more likely to have children (especially single, unemployed mothers who live on welfare and child support from several different men), they probably are reproducing at a rate higher than criminals. Unfortunately, most of these children learn well from their parents and go on to be bigger and better bums.

What should we do with the new bums that are produced after the project has been completed? We have to remember here that people become bums for reasons. Some have good reasons, such as the junkie who constantly chases a high so she can forget about the abuse from her childhood or the homeless man who lost his job and then house because he has schizophrenia and couldn't afford the medication to keep him from having hallucinations. Chances are that these people either used to be better than bums or were raised by people who were not technically bums. Then there are people who have no-so-good reasons, like just deciding that they are too lazy to work for a living when they reach adulthood, no matter how hard their parents worked. The creation of the bum will be an ongoing problem.

And where do we draw the line between people who genuinely need help and people who are just hopeless bums? I'm guessing that the homeless bum described above would have a much easier time turning his situation around if medication and psychotherapy was provided along with employment opportunities. The junkie would most likely become a productive member of society if she got the right combination of drug rehabilitation programs and professional counseling and personal support. The lazy person, well, that may just be hopeless...

I think we addressed that:

1- Bums who became that way for good reasons can use the funds provided to fix themselves and reapply for re-entry into the society. Lazy bums, .... will cotinue to have fun as they are.

2- We will have nothing to do with them once they land there. no wellfare or anything other the funds described.

so you see, it is a well-thought out project.