Choosing Beggar

A choosing beggar is the person who requests a favour and then negotiates it like a hostile acquisition: free work, but faster; the donated couch, but delivered; exposure instead of payment, and outrage at the counteroffer. The type was named by an internet community and instantly recognized by every freelancer alive. Filed stories here run on screenshots and quoted messages, which juries adore — entitlement, unlike apparitions, tends to put itself in writing.

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