How do you know when you are a "Bum"?

Question

how do you know when you are a "bum" not a homeless person but a "bum"

Answer 1

When your an able bodied adult male letting someone else support you.

Answer 2

When your name is Evan. When followed by a last name starting with T, super bum status is achieved. But when starting with a Q, bum status is removed.

Answer 3

When you no longer make any contribution, then you are a drain on society. I would think it is at this point you would be considered a bum.

Answer 4

If I could comment on the answer given by Antares, suppose the "contribution" you propose to be offered was co-opted by ulterior agendas and therefore nullified? Would you still believe that no contribution would qualify as being a bum? As opposed to giving any kind of contribution, and watching as *your* contribution was diverted to something for which you had not previously intended, thus rendering you a passive observer. Would that somehow make it easier to deal with?  For instance, suppose I had the know-how to make nuclear weapons, and I go to my boss, and tell my boss of my knowledge, and my boss sells my knowledge to the highest bidder and makes a bomb, which I had no intention of doing, but it is now out of my hands. Would it have been better to not contribute, thus making me a "bum" in your eyes? Antares?

Answer 5

When you don't produce anything yourself, and are not self sufficient or are useful to society in any way at all.

Edit:

@ aelfric, that was an incredible stupid analogy, obviously you can do other things to contribute, and all contributing means is not letting society pay for you to live when you are able to make al living yourself.

As I am pretty sure that if someone can discover nuclear energy and not want to give its secrets away, they can find other ways to contribute to society instead.

Answer 6

when you hop the border into california, you have no green card, no money, speak not a word of english, have 6 kids all younger than age 10, and have brown skin.