Related for Bava Metzia 42:12

ואמאי נהי דעניים דהכא מיאשי איכא עניים בדוכתא אחריתא דלא מיאשי אמרי כיון דאיכא עניים הכא הנך מעיקרא איאושי מיאש ואמרי עניים דהתם מלקטי ליה

there are poor people in other places who do not give up hope?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The poor who live at a distance cannot be said to give up hope consciously as they do not see the local gleaners. It must therefore be assumed that the reason why people who are not poor are allowed to appropriate the gleanings which have escaped the attention of the local poor is that the distant poor will give up hope when they will have learned how thoroughly the field has been gleaned by the local poor. This would prove that 'anticipated abandonment' is valid — in contradiction to the view of Abaye. ');">¹⁸</span> — I will say: Seeing that there are local poor, those [in other places] give up hope straight away, as they say. 'The poor of that place have already gleaned it.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus the 'abandonment' is not 'anticipated' but real at the time when the people come and appropriate what is left of the gleanings, and there is contradiction to the view of Abaye. ');">¹⁹</span>

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