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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_law
tfw you aren't allowed to exist.
In 1881, a Chicago alderman named James Peevey described the beggars on his city streets as human “street obstructions.” Peevey was instrumental in pushing an ordinance through the city council that prohibited any person who is “diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object” from being in the “public view.”
https://timeline.com/in-the-1800s-t...nd-no-surprise-who-suffered-most-c0b7a26ba8c9For the crime of being “unsightly,” beggars could be charged anywhere from $1 to $50 — or up to about $1100 in today’s dollars. Those who weren’t able to pay were sent to poorhouses.
tfw you aren't allowed to exist.