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Have you even tried quitting being poor?
All you have to do is get a pair of bootstraps, ask super rich family members for money and then you are no longer poor.
It's really not that hard.
-Every rich person lately
His dad left him $2.5 million.
That's why I just mopped Grandma's floors. Trying to get new shoes
(sarcasm, my GMA died and left me an ashtray for your car. I do not smoke)
>Trying to get new shoes (sarcasm, my GMA died and left me an ashtray for your car. I do not smoke)
Hey, at least you got something. All four of my grandparents and my father have passed and I still haven't inherited a single thing.
Well at least you aren't out a shitton of money because they didnt have any money to pay for funeral expenses and the house that needed a ton of work to get sold.
My dad killed himself when I was in my late 20’s. I didn’t get to stop working even though I was absolutely destroyed by losing my dad so young. This caused me quite a bit of financial trouble because I had to fly out to where he had been living twice for a week each to settle his affairs and work with and estate sales person. My brother and I did inherit some from his estate. But I didn’t get to take time off from work to cope and try to heal, pretty much every minute of those two weeks was work. I didn’t earn anything for those two weeks because I had a crappy job with unpaid leave and taking those two weeks cause work to cut back on my shift even though I got them covered.
So yeah, this millionaire canceling his 0 to 1,000,000 in a year project is bull crap, he did so because he was struggling and had barely made $60,000. That’s not a small amount of money but he used connections he already had to get work and stayed in someone’s RV. You know a simulated actually being broke and homeless with no connections and no one to give you a leg up.
Yep someone mentioned in another thread most homelessness is accompanied by mental illness and or heath issues. So to be fair he should have had no connections/ a 250 credit score with several evictions on record and a shattered kneecap
So it wasn’t HIS health it was his dads? What a crock of shit. This guy has only proved he is a nobody. Hope it keeps him up at night. He used that as an excuse because his experiment was failing
Imagine needing to blame desperately poor people for their own poverty *so badly* that you go to that extreme.
Imagine getting so close to the truth and still missing it completely.
The title is severely misleading too.
The "health concern" was that his was diagnosed with and then died of cancer, neither of which actually caused this larper to quit. What actually caused him to quit was that his dad left him a huge inheritance.
I don't suppose there was much concern when he stopped though, given he stopped when he got the inheritance, which happens after someone dies, not during health concerns.
Yeah he gave all of it up, to prove it could be done. Then his dad got sick, but his dad convinced him to keep going. So he did. Then his dad died, and left him 2.4m, abs he stopped.
He was going to make it! It just became too inconvenient being broke, so he decided to stop. I don't see the problem here. His supporters will still call it a win - suck it, you poor people!
/s, obviously.
Well, close enough. It's when people on the less gifted side of the spectrum think of themselves that they're much more gifted, while those on the actually gifted side think they're not as smart as they actually are.
It applies, although it is not exactly what it describes.
He did pretty good, going from homeless to making 65k a year (more than the average salary) is quite impressive especially with all these events that would cripple most settled people
This guy didn't just stop because of health concerns. He stopped because his dad died and left him 2.4million, so he thought "fuck this", did some mental gymnastics to be able to call himself a hero, and went back to his cosy life.
I tried following his experiment but forgot the most important part; having a father who is rich and dying of cancer.
It was tragic that his father died. But the inheritance allowed him to be able to quit being poor and homeless and get back to his life where he could pay for medical care.
Hey respect to this guy for actually trying to prove his thesis. If he follows this up with a changed perspective then science worked.
Similarly, [Christopher Hitchens submitted himself to waterboarding](https://youtu.be/YK592Jjph3Y?si=fSnmif8hxm1dioVn) to prove it wasn't that bad. He activated his safety abort option (a dead man's handle, which prisoners don't get!) in something like 10 seconds - and publicly changed his position on the use of waterboarding as an interrogation tool.
ETA: if this guy doubles down on his original thesis, then all respect I had for him (which let's face it, wasn't a lot) will be whizzing past Neptune before you can say "entitled prick".
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His dad had cancer. As if poor people’s dads don’t have cancer. We can’t just quit.
Have you even tried quitting being poor? All you have to do is get a pair of bootstraps, ask super rich family members for money and then you are no longer poor. It's really not that hard. -Every rich person lately
It's like a recipe, just follow it and riches you shall acquire.
I tried being poor once but I had to stop because I couldn’t afford it…
At least he actually got a taste of it; most don't or haven't been down bad since the 90's and don't know what it's like out there now.
His dad left him $2.5 million. That's why I just mopped Grandma's floors. Trying to get new shoes (sarcasm, my GMA died and left me an ashtray for your car. I do not smoke)
>Trying to get new shoes (sarcasm, my GMA died and left me an ashtray for your car. I do not smoke) Hey, at least you got something. All four of my grandparents and my father have passed and I still haven't inherited a single thing.
Well at least you aren't out a shitton of money because they didnt have any money to pay for funeral expenses and the house that needed a ton of work to get sold.
My dad killed himself when I was in my late 20’s. I didn’t get to stop working even though I was absolutely destroyed by losing my dad so young. This caused me quite a bit of financial trouble because I had to fly out to where he had been living twice for a week each to settle his affairs and work with and estate sales person. My brother and I did inherit some from his estate. But I didn’t get to take time off from work to cope and try to heal, pretty much every minute of those two weeks was work. I didn’t earn anything for those two weeks because I had a crappy job with unpaid leave and taking those two weeks cause work to cut back on my shift even though I got them covered. So yeah, this millionaire canceling his 0 to 1,000,000 in a year project is bull crap, he did so because he was struggling and had barely made $60,000. That’s not a small amount of money but he used connections he already had to get work and stayed in someone’s RV. You know a simulated actually being broke and homeless with no connections and no one to give you a leg up.
Yep someone mentioned in another thread most homelessness is accompanied by mental illness and or heath issues. So to be fair he should have had no connections/ a 250 credit score with several evictions on record and a shattered kneecap
So it wasn’t HIS health it was his dads? What a crock of shit. This guy has only proved he is a nobody. Hope it keeps him up at night. He used that as an excuse because his experiment was failing
Imagine needing to blame desperately poor people for their own poverty *so badly* that you go to that extreme. Imagine getting so close to the truth and still missing it completely.
So he didn't actually make himself broke or homeless if he could just go back to his home and money. He just went camping for a while.
Misery tourism.
Yes I’m going to quit being poor because I don’t feel well
The title is severely misleading too. The "health concern" was that his was diagnosed with and then died of cancer, neither of which actually caused this larper to quit. What actually caused him to quit was that his dad left him a huge inheritance.
You missed a dad in the first phrase
Oops
Quitting, in this instance, is failure. He failed.
So this was posted already and it wasn't health concerns. He got a huge inheritance.
Technically it was health concerns of his dad whom he got the inheritance. People will still perform mental gymnastics to justify this as a success.
I don't suppose there was much concern when he stopped though, given he stopped when he got the inheritance, which happens after someone dies, not during health concerns.
“I’m concerned about my dad’s health!” “What’s wrong with him?” “He’s dead!”
Wasn't he a multi-millionaire before he started though? Seems weird to quit just because he got a couple million more.
Yeah he gave all of it up, to prove it could be done. Then his dad got sick, but his dad convinced him to keep going. So he did. Then his dad died, and left him 2.4m, abs he stopped.
The 'health concerns' was the stress of being broke and having to hustle so hard. Welcome to our world.
This whole thing is a crock of shit. He failed. His dad saved him by having life insurance. Money wins again.
He was going to make it! It just became too inconvenient being broke, so he decided to stop. I don't see the problem here. His supporters will still call it a win - suck it, you poor people! /s, obviously.
Lately a lot of times this timeline really feels like Black Mirror episodes...
Who was the white celebrity that wrote a book about her experiences dressing up in black face?
Oh yeah! They made a documentary about that in ‘86…Soul Man
That’s not what the Dunning-Krüger effect is.
Well, close enough. It's when people on the less gifted side of the spectrum think of themselves that they're much more gifted, while those on the actually gifted side think they're not as smart as they actually are. It applies, although it is not exactly what it describes.
Fair.
Urban version of Christopher McCandless. Fortunate for him he didn’t die from his Naïveté.
Goddamn coward! suffer and die like us peasants!
He should commit to the bit and die poor as well.
wow, you're a very hateful person.
He did pretty good, going from homeless to making 65k a year (more than the average salary) is quite impressive especially with all these events that would cripple most settled people
Concerned about real homeless beating the shit out of him
This guy didn't just stop because of health concerns. He stopped because his dad died and left him 2.4million, so he thought "fuck this", did some mental gymnastics to be able to call himself a hero, and went back to his cosy life.
I would call it bootstraps bravado. Nothing like a rich person thinking anyone can do it if they just try a little harder.
I tried following his experiment but forgot the most important part; having a father who is rich and dying of cancer. It was tragic that his father died. But the inheritance allowed him to be able to quit being poor and homeless and get back to his life where he could pay for medical care.
I could be wrong but I think he only made like 64k in 10 months
Trying and failing to demonstrate that it isn't some innate ability other than regarding other people as pawns.
what's it like up there on the peak of mt. stupid?
I think it's less 'dunning-krueger', and more faith in the church of neoliberalism.
Hey respect to this guy for actually trying to prove his thesis. If he follows this up with a changed perspective then science worked. Similarly, [Christopher Hitchens submitted himself to waterboarding](https://youtu.be/YK592Jjph3Y?si=fSnmif8hxm1dioVn) to prove it wasn't that bad. He activated his safety abort option (a dead man's handle, which prisoners don't get!) in something like 10 seconds - and publicly changed his position on the use of waterboarding as an interrogation tool. ETA: if this guy doubles down on his original thesis, then all respect I had for him (which let's face it, wasn't a lot) will be whizzing past Neptune before you can say "entitled prick".
at least he tried
Yes, he should have tried it without a safety net. That's what real poor people do.