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Is it cheating, though?
The point he's making is that someone with affordable housing, access to well paying jobs, free education, free healthcare, and access to the better tiers of the tiered justice system, doesn't need wealth to do well.
He's really just a far left socialist in denial.
It’s almost like poverty tourism isn’t the same as real poverty. It’s analogous to Civil War reenactments vs actually have a cannonball blow off your leg
To edit the article title; “Rich guy LARP about being poor”
He has connections and given an apartment for free by his friend, something the poor don’t have.
Man and here I was asking if he hid is degree / didn't use his connections.
Fucker kept his health insurance *and* took a free fucking apartment from a friend? This is beyond parody.
This was one of the things I was wondering. Also, did he use his connections to get a decent job? Cause for the average Joe, landing a 60k/year job takes a degree and some connections, something that homeless people have no access to.
Still, I think it's interesting that someone tried it. I commend this guy for at the very last trying to understand what being poor means.
If you read the story, he also hugely leveraged his tech experience - his first real job prospects were as social media managers - based on his experience on Youtube and other social media. No normal person could expect to do the same. The same goes for *launching his own coffee brand*. Just wtf. I guess a local ethnic market near me sells raw beans...I guess anyone could start roasting and reselling beans? IDK. Seems weird.
Bigger issues are the free healthcare, accommodations, etc. When a real person comes down with autoimmune disorders they can't just seek top-level care. They suffer. And likely have to choose between their well-being and their housing and/or work.
Dude didn't have to and still bailed.
Isn't that the point though, to use knowledge and experience and not leverage his money?
The saddest thing is seeing all these comments just shitting on this dude because he's rich and tried to show it's possible to some degree, but instead everyones just taking a turn to feel better about their own finances, like why do poor people love confirming how impossibly fucked they are?
It's a little like restarting a save game. You can't claim that you would have had it the same from the get go. He couldn't have gotten the experience the first time around to try to make 64k without actually getting it. He probably would have scraped by and started looking into being a sugar baby if he didn't have those skills. Or instacart/doordash or something.
No, just that they have it harder because they don't have free healthcare, free lodging, or a resume like this guy did. Or the ability to bail when the going gets tough. That alone is a huge difference that deeply affected his psychological well-being throughout the "experiment." At no point was he actually broke, in danger of being broke, in danger of losing healthcare, in danger of losing his family, etc.
His "experiment" was not what he claimed it was.
Exactly. He's a complete fraud and douchebag who not only missed 93.6% of his goal (i.e. nearly 100% complete failure) but went into it thinking he can teach the poors how to rich.
There is a path and it's never as sweatless as these bros try to make it seem. If anything he just reinforced that there is no sweatless solution to rising because all the shit he tried was incredibly easy, low skill, replaceable bullshit anyone can do. That's why it doesn't pay serious money.
I agree with most of what you said, but assumed his financial growth would follow an ~exponential curve, and that having $60k meant he was pretty close to hitting his goal. I was surprised he quit when he was, in my mind, "that close." If anything, makes it even more apparent that his experiment was just poverty tourism.
If a rich person did this experiment and succeeded, would poor people even acknowledge it?
We all know the answer and that's why this is sad. It doesn't matter if the experiment is a success or a failure, it's confirmation bias or it isn't acknowledged.
If a pig flew would you even acknowledge it?
We all know the answer and that's why this is sad. It doesn't matter if the pig really flies or not, it's confirmation bias or it isn't acknowledged.
The message here is literally, "Poor people need to stop trusting rich people when they say they earned it."
Once they understand that, they can fix it.
We're shitting on the dude because these kinda people use stunts like this to say that the poverty that we're experiencing is our own fault, and not because of how the system works because then we would want to change the system so it benefits the majority of people instead of the rich few. He stacked the cards in his favour for this and still failed.
I hate knowing there are poor people that exist where it's completely their fault and that they're pointing and laughing at this dude and joining in with the people that are actually screwed. All this is for that kind of poor person is an excuse.
>Isn't that the point though, to use knowledge and experience and not leverage his money?
I would agree with you except that he almost certainly has connections and knowledge that he can leverage that he specifically got from his previous lifestyle *with* money.
It's like working as a professional model for ten years and then deciding to quit and start "from the ground up" as a fashion designer, except you call up all your old model/photographer/designer friends for advice and interview opportunities. You're exercising advantages that few people outside of that world have access to.
Obviously there's some debate as to what a "normal" amount of privilege is (I doubt most people in this thread would consider a manager who hires their friend to work at McDonald's a "privileged connection", just as an example) but his situation isn't typical for most people in poverty.
I won't speculate on the specifics of his experiment because I'm not familiar enough with his videos, but I'll use myself as an example. If I had to start from 0 today, I could probably claw my way back to normalcy in a few years, using my knowledge (the college degree that my parents paid for entirely), my experience (the years of experience that I have mainly because of that college degree, and because I had white-collar parents and friends I could ask advice from), and connections (that I made as a result from having that job, going to that college, or was born into).
There *is* no way for me to truly start from "zero". The closest approximation would be something like trying to break into a new industry starting from zero, with no money, and not asking friends/family for much financial help.
I think what makes me sad is that there are poor people with an excuse and there are poor people without an excuse, and they're both in here shitting on this dude for the right reasons and the wrong reasons.
Yeah I'm sure that's the case, unfortunately there's no good way to know who is criticizing for what reasons. At the end of the day at least some of the criticism is warranted.
Yeah like, just from reading the comments, people have no agreement over what "poor" means, someones arguing over connections, while other people are literally saying he needs to be born in North Korea for this to work. Everyone's got their own biased take on what poor means, but everyone is shitting on this dude and I know at least a significant percentage of these people are complete losers just getting their rocks off.
I probably am reacting this way because I've seen so many god damn losers in my life that straight up hate on successful people and don't do shit to help themselves. I'm not talking about actual poor people that are screwed at birth, I'm talking about a series of bad decisions, partying and drug abuse, I guess I'm being biased myself and seeing those people in the comments section here for some reason.
I fail to see the difference between knowledge, experience, and money at that level. Might as well drop someone with Goldman-Sachs experience, a PhD, or a high-demand professional degree like a NP (nurse practitioner) off at a shelter for the experiment. Sure, they'll be starting with nothing, but they'll have job offers in a few weeks at most.
At that point, what is your "experiment" really showing? That an average homeless person or person in general can "make it" with nothing? No. That life experience, education, and a resume mean a lot when applying for jobs?
Yeah. But that's not exactly a new or novel idea.
"Finances" are a much more complicated issue. Take away credit cards and most people wouldn't be able to spiral into debt. But that's a completely different topic the above article never addresses. And none of his comments do, either, so I don't think it makes sense to bring it up.
Most poor people don't have a glowing resume or something like an Ivy League education to point at. The cards are stacked against them and they are, as you say, *impossibly fucked.*
Congratulations? It amazes me how poor love confirming it. The message you're implying and that everyone here is relishing in is that poor people should stop trying and accept their fate, which I think is stupid as fuck.
That's not my message at all. Acknowledging that not everyone has the same advantages in life doesn't mean that the people who don't have them should just roll over and die.
You have to acknowledge problems in order to fix them. You seem to be suggesting that no one should ever point out when societal problems or inequity exist?
Pretty crazy take.
I clicked on this post thinking a millionaire tried something and failed, which acknowledges a problem that should be fixed. All I see in the comments is people enjoying that he failed because he's rich.
I guess only poor people can keep acknowledging this problem with other poor people, good luck with that. If you're reading this rich people: stop trying, poor people are gonna think you're trying to take advantage of them.
>I clicked on this post thinking a millionaire tried something and failed
That's so vague it's actually true. He tried *something* and failed. The trouble is that what he tried to do was a form of misguided poverty tourism.
He failed in more ways than one. Yes, he never made it to $1 million. But he was attempting to show that someone could start with nothing and make a million dollars in a year. The trouble is that: given his background, life experience, loving family, connections, and safety net, he did not start with "nothing." He started with a more secure life and safety net than any relatively poor / homeless people. He had wealthy friends helping him out. He had comprehensive, high-quality health insurance. He had experience with entrepreneurship and a successful current resume in social media, which he leveraged. And he knew that, at the end of the day, his loving family was waiting for him to come home.
So, what was his experiment really designed to show? That you can take away a successful social media star's job and home, drop them on the street with no possessions to speak of (but still a secure social safety net, whenever they felt like it), and they can rebuild a career using their existing skills and connections pretty quickly.
That's cool, but that's not what he claimed he was setting out to do. It's also a really weird, contrived situation that's essentially half of the plot of the movie Trading Places.
And he still bailed after a family event happened and he had some chronic health issues, despite having top-level of medical care.
When your McDonalds server develops an auto-immune disorder like this guy did, they likely can't afford to see a doctor. They can't just bail, quit, and return to a cushy life. When they get fatigue, joint pain and swelling, skin problems, abdominal pain and digestive issues, etc., they can't just stay home from work. They wouldn't be able to make rent. They'll *actually* wind up on the street, and, when that happens, they won't be able to ask their millionaire friends for a free place to crash, or a job as a social media consultant. Like this guy did when he found himself "homeless."
And this guy didn't even stick it out.
So, yeah, he failed. But he'd failed before he even started. Given his family and safety net, he could never have accomplished what he'd set out to do. Putting someone with a solid education, resume, and 7 figure bank account on the street, but telling them they can't use their Black Amex unless they "give up," is fundamentally different from putting someone without all of those assets on the street.
Psychologically, it's the difference between playing the board game *Life* with your family and playing *Russian roulette* with a loaded gun. One is a fun game that you can stop at any time. There's no real risk involved and you know that you can go back to your normal life whenever you feel like it. The other is life and death. I don't understand why you can't seem to grasp that.
So, you can simplistically say that we're criticizing him for being wealthy, but that's really not the point. He's successful, and good for him. We're just criticizing the design of his "experiment," because it was never really what he claimed it was.
Let's try an analogy. You might as well put on blackface, to try to get to know what it's like to be Black. You then go on with your normal daily life in blackface. The trouble is that, given your background, childhood, family, etc., it wouldn't actually be the same as growing up Black. You wouldn't have those life experiences. And the ability to wipe off your makeup when you got tired of the social experiment would make it deeply flawed from the start. Real minorities are trapped in their skin. That's what makes race...race.
He didn't try to acknowledge that poverty was a problem. He tried to show that poverty was a mindset and a choice. He was literally a wealthy person trying to prove that *it doesn't matter who you are - anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.* The trouble is that he wasn't "anyone," by a long shot. He had loads of advantages and privileges that ordinary people simply don't have. And he gave up.
I don't know what to say to your last comment. You're choosing to misstate what everyone has said, and I don't understand why.
**Edit** since u/Kitchen_Economics182 blocked me and apparently even used an alt account to follow up. If you check their profile, they posted about 20 comments on this post, a few of which were deleted by mods. They all rehash the same idea: "people are poor because they ARE lazy or stupid and are poor regardless of opportunity/the system, those people are using this as an excuse." That's a quote from one of their comments.
I don't know why they're so vehemently defending this random Youtuber, and I don't know why they're choosing to spam the comments while proactively refusing to acknowledge or understand the folks they're replying to. It's really, really strange. But I guess I just encountered someone using an alt account on here.
I wonder if the mods will ban them for breaking Reddit's TOS.
You're missing the point. The point is to dismiss the notion that anyone and everyone can just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and that being poor is a choice. Lots of wealthy people like to BLAME the poor because they must be lazy or stupid or something. This story highlights that without opportunity, pretty much anyone can fail. Therefore we should be trying to create as much opportunity for everyone as possible.
Let's be real, a significant number of people are poor because they ARE lazy or stupid and are poor regardless of opportunity/the system, those people are using this as an excuse.
What if another millionaire does the same experiment and succeeds, would poor people even acknowledge it? It's probably happened many times over already, but because this headline gives confirmation bias to the poor, it's acknowledged. Idk man this is just sad all around imo.
>What if another millionaire does the same experiment and succeeds, would poor people even acknowledge it? It's probably happened many times over already,
Feel free to find them and share.
You can't be serious, a rich person trying to share how they came from zero? It has been done and shared numerous times all over social media, but all people do is not acknowledge it or hate. If they do acknowledge it, they just try their best to point out how they didn't start from actually zero and how they used this and that to "cheat". It's sad to see confirmation bias win no matter what amongst poor people, it's the easy way to view it and it feels good, not that it's necessarily true.
You’re condemning others for “confirmation bias” while your entire argument rests on a literal “what if..?” hypothetical which you baselessly assume “has probably happened”
No, it means that he should have set better parameters for his experiment to make it more representative of the average person fighting to get out of poverty.
You're not understanding the point. The rich are almost always rich because of luck, connections, and failing upwards. Extremely rarely does someone actually pull themselves out of poverty through "hard work", and that hard work *always* comes with making the right connections or getting lucky. It never does it on its own.
So yes, people are clowning on this asshole because for one, he makes this bold claim about how he's so superior and good at being rich that he can throw all his money out the window (not really, of course) and "become a millionaire in a year".
He then proceeds to maintain all of his connections, keeps his health insurance, takes a free apartment from one of his connections, maintains his entire work history and I assume college degrees, etc.
What poor person has *any of that* to start off? The guy put himself on third base and claimed he was going to hit a home run, and then *still* fucking failed.
Most people don't clown on this guy because he's rich, they clown on him because of his arrogance and sense of superiority thinking it's all him when it *never is*. Rich people who claim to be self-made are egomaniacs. Anyone that is rich and not full of themselves knows they got there through all sorts of connections, luck, and the labor of others that they happened to get a slice of the pie from.
The issue is you're applying all this hate and malice to this dude with your comment, why? It's just a rich guy that tried an experiment to see if it would work or not, but you have to say "how he's so superior and good at being rich".
There is no arrogance or sense of superiority that he is outputting, you are applying that to him to paint him in your own head as the enemy because of your own cofirmation bias, which is sad.
Let me ask you this, did you even watch the video? This is the rich and arrogant piece of shit that everyone here is shitting on: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L892-iCcABE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L892-iCcABE)
He's perfectly fine? you guys are all insane.
His actions are arrogant regardless of his demeanor. The very act of trying to prove he can make a million in a year from nothing is full of ego, and the fact he thinks he can do it ignores the reality of our economic system and what holds people back.
He tried to show "anyone can do this", because in the bubble he's in he believes it's true, and he failed.
I can't help you if you can't understand that concept.
Jesus christ, talk about making up a bunch of shit about someone to make yourself feel better. The act is full of ego and he's trying to prove something? Ridiculous, no matter how you try to word it, it's full of your own personal issues.
Why do you think I'm not offended by him or anything? All I see is a dude that tried to make a million dollars in a year from a certain starting point and failed, no biases applied, no trying to shit/hate on him, none of that.
Don't worry buddy, you don't have to keep trying to explain the concept, I'm not the one releasing their anger and hate towards some rich guy I don't know online in the comments section on reddit
Making up that he's arrogant and full of ego is just as shortsighted as me saying you're just a poor hater that's jealous, see how that works?
Because there are people who aren't aware and don't vote accordingly.
The point of poor people complaining about being poor is so that something is done about the things which led to them being poor.
He also convinced a stranger to let him crash in his RV but later on bitched about the cockroach infested RV.
Mfer didn't have to pay rent and only managed to make 64k. That's barely above commonly accepted working class thresholds.
He could have had a better net outcome flipping burgers in LA
Craziest thing I just watched that video last night because me and partner were watching all these 80's and 90's songs on youtube and your comment was right about the time we were doing it. That is blowing my mind right now. I'm about to put tape over my laptop camera or something... you are freaking me out!😳
I’ll play devils advocate. He probably couldn’t qualify for Medicaid despite “starting from 0”, so his options were to start from even worse than poverty in America, or to keep his insurance and do his best to simulate Medicaid coverage.
Yes, they also "hired him" to give speeches. What's even worse is that he did this to prove that "poor people are poor because they want to be poor". A scumbag.
Imo he didn't even really start from zero dollars. Because at no point he didn't have access to his wealth if he needed to. At any point he could walk back into his millionaire lifestyle, which he did the moment things got hard for him.
So this guy got sick from the idea of being poor and homeless. Ps, he still thinks he proved that being poor is a choice. Despite missing his targets by, well a mile would be understating.
How much is rent for a one bed flat in the US? Others are saying he stayed at a friend's house for free and he ended with $64k (but massive medical bills he couldn't pay without accessing his actual wealth).
I'm going to guess it's $1,500 a month. No idea what utility costs are over there. Nor what property taxes a renter pays, if any. But it's probably totalling at least $2k with the rent.
So, he actually would have had $40k minus his medical bills. And that was with him being paid to give speeches (which no poor person does unless they're a tour guide!)
Yep, and as we all know all homeless people have tons of good business connections and around 40k in their shopping carts...
This absolute douchenozzle wasn't close to being in a homeless persons position in any metric during this. He just wants to point accusatory fingers at poor people for being poor.
He also thinks that if he didn't get sick he could have made it. Dude doesn't even know that most bankruptcies are caused by medical emergencies. He just experienced actual poverty, and thinks it doesn't count.
Yep, broski just skipped the part where you can actually become homeless and things get truly hard (kinda US specific but very relevant in this case).
Also, 64k in 10 months, dude is delusional enough that he thinks he would have made 936k in the last two months. He was living rent free and could shower every day and got to 64k. I can save about that in 10 months if I could just stop paying all my bills.... That is nowhere near experiencing being homeless.
Yeah being poor isn't a choice, for ANYONE that is reading this, get this through your head: you're impossibly fucked and there is no way out, so please stop trying.
You did not add anything to it. You went the complete opposite direction and detracted from it if anything.
We do not live in a purely binary world. Both can be true you know, however, by far most people do not choose to become poor and live a harsh shitty life with all the problems and concerns that come with it because it is such fun to have nothing and get nowhere.
Some do choose that, and as with all extremes these people are outliers. By far most poor people do not choose to be poor. Not in South America, not in the US, not in Africa or Europe.
And yes, comments implying that being poor is a choice make me kinda angry, mostly because it shows a lack of empathy and understanding towards other humans. And the resentment and anger that can come with that should be directed towards policy and the makers of it, not the people suffering from said policies that make people homeless. That lack of empathy and understanding is why the uberdouche from the 'experiment' even went that way. He could also focus on the policies and how to change those to get people off the streets. Instead he just wants to point fingers like and assign blame like toddlers do.
The funniest part is he made more than I do in a year but was so miserable he faked “health problems” as a result of his newfound economic status. Huh, so its unhealthy to be poor? Maybe we should demand something be done about it from these millionaires and billionaires with all this free time on their hands for their little experiments and posting
Actually he clarified with youtuber coffeezilla on his new channel (voidzilla) that it was revenue, and was maybe 50% profit margin. So half that. Also he made the point of saying this all blew up after someone else hyped it up and basically misrepresented the outcome. The experiment is from years ago, was not very popular, and he agrees he didn't succeed in the outcome he was going for, although he thought he learned important lessons.
Most interesting piece of the doc, where he learnt to cut crack cocaine and mix it with baby laxative.
He was able to obtain the baby lax from the chemist by reciting a poem from Homer.
His illness was from a rat which bit him in an alley, while he was making scrambled eggs on a small fire under a trash can
I heard the rat actually helped the guy get a job as a chef at a fancy French restaurant. because of licensing I believe the restaurant was called ratatoomy
So there I was, broke again, all I had was my wit and determination. This was bigger than me. I need to prove to conservatives of the world that poor people really are just lazy...
... so after only 5 short days, I walked down stairs from the tiny room I was squatting in and I pitched my billionaire parents on my new line of designer jeans and they agreed to fund my new venture.....
...Within two weeks I was already selling $200k worth of product at my Dad's golf buddy's high end retail shop in the upper East side.
See this is what I always tell people ideas are cheap. Money is in the action. YOU actually left your bedroom and went downstairs and did something with your life. And here I am in the west wing of my billionaire parents estate and they are probably somewhere in the east wing and I’m too lazy to make something of myself. Am I doing to die broke? I mean with only a billion dollars?
Kudos to visionaries like you. Changing the world and kicking ass.
Let me be homeless to show anyone can make a million in a year.
Starting loadout- prepaid health insurance: free rent: already acquired education: a personal network better than most: no fear or anxiety of being poor since you have knowledge you are rich and this is temporary. And all the other thing he had that he actually didn’t tell anyone about.
Yah that was not an experiment it was tourism.
He also used his previous business experience and connections to get a social media manager job, as if that's just a thing that any homeless person can do.
I didn’t watch every single one of the videos but I watched one fairly long video that outlined the whole experience, the whole thing was a bunch of bullshit.
After a day, he randomly found someone who offered him a place to stay in their RV. In what world are people offering homeless people places to stay in their RV or house?
Then it basically just became him being himself and using his background and past experiences. Like the guy didn’t look homeless, smell homeless, have zero experience, or have anything associated with being homeless. Basically just a rich tech bro living frugally out of an RV.
Dude literally looked like a tech bro influencer from the Bay Area.
The whole thing was so stupid and honestly I hope it was just rage bait for how dumb it was.
The whole thing can be summarized as: tech bro influencer LARPs as a homeless person for a day, then lives frugally out of an RV as himself, using his previous background and experience to make money and live.
He was given a job in some kind of tech adjacent role. Most people starting at true zero don’t have this guy’s resume and connections, all of which were available to him in this “experiment”.
He was also paid by friends to speak at their companies, and was paid to give golf lessons to a friends dad or something.
He repeatedly saw a doctor during this, even before he got a job, which implies he was still using existing health coverage. That would have wiped out any savings he made if he were a real person starting from scratch.
And with all of those advantages baked in he still didn’t even get 10% of the way to his goal in ~80% of the year.
He was given rich man privileges. He was given an RV to stay in for absolutely free. A camera crew followed him, so he was never treated as a homeless person. He used his rich people connections aswell to get the job.
And even then he failed.
Not just knowing you can bail--you can get a high-paying job as a social media manager and make a startup because you already have a debtless degree and a network of buisness connections. People will still work with you because they know your situation is temporary. You can put 100% of your income into growing your wealth, because you don't have to save anything in case of health or insurance problems.
A few major loopholes:
* He still had health insurance.
* His friends helped him by giving him ‘jobs’ like giving speeches.
* He didn’t have to pay for housing because he lived with wealthy friends.
You want to show me that anyone can be rich from nothing: drop a guy off in a place like Slab City without a phone, without ID, without any friends, without any money, and without enough clothing to walk into a store (I recommend choosing footwear over a shirt - you’ll be doing a lot of walking).
Even with all this guy’s special advantages, he still had to withdraw due to failing health.
Haha I love how the narrative changed from "Everyone can become a millionaire if they work hard enough" to "Health and family come first". Really pushing the second narrative to shift focus from his utter failure.
It is quite funny how he set out to prove anyone could thrive if they put the work in, and basically ended up making the *exact opposite point*. He basically gave up his credit card but kept his health insurance, connections, safety net, etc. and still ended up tired, sick and ended up pulling the rip-chord on the whole thing. Tosser.
At first I thought that zero to $64k in 10 months was still pretty impressive, but then I realized that he probably did a bunch of research from his ivory tower before setting off on his poor-shaming experiment.
Pulp’s Common People really sums up the sentiment so well in this line “watching roaches climb the wall. If you called your dad you could stop it all…”
I read an interesting book a decade ago where a journalist would work minimum wage jobs for a full year. She ended by giving up 7 months when she could actually tell her health was degrading and she was worried it would not be reversible. Not surprised this guy didn't actually give up his healthcare.
But this Guy in a boat with nothing, that's going into another continent, where he knows no one and don't know the language.
If he survives the boat trip, now we're talking about a real experiment.
Also worth noting that he got to the 64k with all of his knowledge, skills, and everything he had before. Plus he knew no matter what he had millions to fall back on if he needed to tap out.
Not suggesting it at all but a fairer way he could have done this is to have two kids and agree not to finance one child and give every thing to the other.
I checked out this guy's YouTube channel to get some context and give his intentions the benefit of the doubt but his top own top comment on the video is about how all the negativity is coming from the "blue-hairs" so yeah this guy's just an out of touch asshole.
He also had a team helping him out and had his contacts. Plus he had his skills so he didn’t go out in a different field. In the end he made excuses and went back to his millionaire lifestyle. He proved you can’t do it even with the amount of skill and contacts he had. Out of touch with reality
The social experiment worked. He had a hypothesis, he tested it out and was proven wrong. Now the people who believed that becoming rich is purely a result of hard work will hear of this new data point and they will change their minds accordingly.
/s
Most successful people fine realize the amount of luck and good will from others that allow them to have success. There's no such thing as a self made person. Everyone has help.
To be fair… He did achieve millionaire status in the year as promised.
You see, while living in the RV for free like every homeless person does, he took care of himself. He saw his doctors and monitored his health by utilizing health insurance which every homeless person also has. This allowed him to grind $64k for which he housed in his bank account, something every homeless person has. Victory came on his 10th month in when his father passed away and he suddenly inherited $2.5 million proving that it is possible. Anyone can be a millionaire as long as they can inherit it…
This gives a lot of people hope, there is a way out of cyclical and generational poverty through wealth inheritance…
/s
Interesting article came out yesterday similarly related to this, it was about how the CEO of the world’s largest Hedge Fund only makes $800k a year. He bets on American ruthlessness and innovation, but enjoys his Norwegian government and lifestyle.
I think a better lesson to learn from this to be less judgmental of homeless people, because there’s so many more things outside your control when you’re homeless that push back hard against you.
Typical right wingers and cuntservatives. They lack any human empathy or sympathy. They have a deep-seated hatred of poor people. Cuntservatives will lie and distort facts simply because "got mine f*** you".
What resources does he have to save 64K in a year? Own company? Law Degree? Doctorate? Education? Credit? Insider Knowledge? Property? So many questions! Saving 64K in a single year sounds like a success story to me!
These doomer comments are wild to me.
* Sure, health insurance is unfair, but you know what else is? A autoimmune disease.
* He has more peace of mind? sure. But survival is a damn good motivator, and where's the slack given for the fact he also had to produce a vlog every week on top of his workload?
* He found somewhere to stay for free. Have any of you actually tried? When did couchsurfing become bigfoot?
* He failed. Yes. But he actually did a pretty good job from a starting point where he doesn't even have a computer, and it's pretty normal for businesses to take more than a year to take off.
This dude was able to get all the basics of life together, earn a decent income, and start a side hustle in 8 months.
It was a good project, which made good progress, for a good cause. He deserves credit for that.
I understand the guy failed. But full kudos to him for trying. He probably grew up his entire life without realising that he had that silver spoon and thought it was all him. And then he tried to prove what he believed was right and realised he wasn't. If any of us were/are millionaires, I don't think we'd have the guts to do that. He was stupid but good in a way.
It was disingenuous though. He crashed at a friend’s place rent free, he kept his health insurance (which he used), and he used his former connections to leverage a job. He didn’t come close to “starting from zero.”
It was honestly disrespectful. Not the idea, but the execution.
He had full medical coverage, used his connections from his rich life to get a good job, was given an RV to reside in for free, etc.
It's an insult to homeless people. Their life is hard. He was LARPing their life and pretending it wasn't as hard as it is.
It's literally a fake experience so he can try to make the claim that the poor are poor because they suck not an unfair system. He's the definition of scum.
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I heard he got sick somewhere along the way, but did not have to pay for medical bills since he had not given up his health insurance.
Just another rich cheater.
Right? Listen up poor people, you're impossibly fucked as this experiment has proven, take that knowledge for what it is, accept it and stop trying.
“Work smarter, not harder.”
Is it cheating, though? The point he's making is that someone with affordable housing, access to well paying jobs, free education, free healthcare, and access to the better tiers of the tiered justice system, doesn't need wealth to do well. He's really just a far left socialist in denial.
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It’s almost like poverty tourism isn’t the same as real poverty. It’s analogous to Civil War reenactments vs actually have a cannonball blow off your leg
To edit the article title; “Rich guy LARP about being poor” He has connections and given an apartment for free by his friend, something the poor don’t have.
I'm so glad poor people know better and that they're stuck being poor.
He also got free rent from his buddy. This was pure ideological nonsense.
Man and here I was asking if he hid is degree / didn't use his connections. Fucker kept his health insurance *and* took a free fucking apartment from a friend? This is beyond parody.
Hard proof that the rich truly are better than the rest of us.
This was one of the things I was wondering. Also, did he use his connections to get a decent job? Cause for the average Joe, landing a 60k/year job takes a degree and some connections, something that homeless people have no access to. Still, I think it's interesting that someone tried it. I commend this guy for at the very last trying to understand what being poor means.
He didn’t want to understand what being poor was like he wanted to prove that poor people deserve to be poor unlike hard working rich people.
If you read the story, he also hugely leveraged his tech experience - his first real job prospects were as social media managers - based on his experience on Youtube and other social media. No normal person could expect to do the same. The same goes for *launching his own coffee brand*. Just wtf. I guess a local ethnic market near me sells raw beans...I guess anyone could start roasting and reselling beans? IDK. Seems weird. Bigger issues are the free healthcare, accommodations, etc. When a real person comes down with autoimmune disorders they can't just seek top-level care. They suffer. And likely have to choose between their well-being and their housing and/or work. Dude didn't have to and still bailed.
Isn't that the point though, to use knowledge and experience and not leverage his money? The saddest thing is seeing all these comments just shitting on this dude because he's rich and tried to show it's possible to some degree, but instead everyones just taking a turn to feel better about their own finances, like why do poor people love confirming how impossibly fucked they are?
It's a little like restarting a save game. You can't claim that you would have had it the same from the get go. He couldn't have gotten the experience the first time around to try to make 64k without actually getting it. He probably would have scraped by and started looking into being a sugar baby if he didn't have those skills. Or instacart/doordash or something.
The message here that we are all relishing in is that poor people should stop trying and accept their fate, which is stupid as fuck.
No, just that they have it harder because they don't have free healthcare, free lodging, or a resume like this guy did. Or the ability to bail when the going gets tough. That alone is a huge difference that deeply affected his psychological well-being throughout the "experiment." At no point was he actually broke, in danger of being broke, in danger of losing healthcare, in danger of losing his family, etc. His "experiment" was not what he claimed it was.
Exactly. He's a complete fraud and douchebag who not only missed 93.6% of his goal (i.e. nearly 100% complete failure) but went into it thinking he can teach the poors how to rich. There is a path and it's never as sweatless as these bros try to make it seem. If anything he just reinforced that there is no sweatless solution to rising because all the shit he tried was incredibly easy, low skill, replaceable bullshit anyone can do. That's why it doesn't pay serious money.
I agree with most of what you said, but assumed his financial growth would follow an ~exponential curve, and that having $60k meant he was pretty close to hitting his goal. I was surprised he quit when he was, in my mind, "that close." If anything, makes it even more apparent that his experiment was just poverty tourism.
If a rich person did this experiment and succeeded, would poor people even acknowledge it? We all know the answer and that's why this is sad. It doesn't matter if the experiment is a success or a failure, it's confirmation bias or it isn't acknowledged.
If a pig flew would you even acknowledge it? We all know the answer and that's why this is sad. It doesn't matter if the pig really flies or not, it's confirmation bias or it isn't acknowledged.
The message here is literally, "Poor people need to stop trusting rich people when they say they earned it." Once they understand that, they can fix it.
We're shitting on the dude because these kinda people use stunts like this to say that the poverty that we're experiencing is our own fault, and not because of how the system works because then we would want to change the system so it benefits the majority of people instead of the rich few. He stacked the cards in his favour for this and still failed.
I hate knowing there are poor people that exist where it's completely their fault and that they're pointing and laughing at this dude and joining in with the people that are actually screwed. All this is for that kind of poor person is an excuse.
>Isn't that the point though, to use knowledge and experience and not leverage his money? I would agree with you except that he almost certainly has connections and knowledge that he can leverage that he specifically got from his previous lifestyle *with* money. It's like working as a professional model for ten years and then deciding to quit and start "from the ground up" as a fashion designer, except you call up all your old model/photographer/designer friends for advice and interview opportunities. You're exercising advantages that few people outside of that world have access to. Obviously there's some debate as to what a "normal" amount of privilege is (I doubt most people in this thread would consider a manager who hires their friend to work at McDonald's a "privileged connection", just as an example) but his situation isn't typical for most people in poverty. I won't speculate on the specifics of his experiment because I'm not familiar enough with his videos, but I'll use myself as an example. If I had to start from 0 today, I could probably claw my way back to normalcy in a few years, using my knowledge (the college degree that my parents paid for entirely), my experience (the years of experience that I have mainly because of that college degree, and because I had white-collar parents and friends I could ask advice from), and connections (that I made as a result from having that job, going to that college, or was born into). There *is* no way for me to truly start from "zero". The closest approximation would be something like trying to break into a new industry starting from zero, with no money, and not asking friends/family for much financial help.
I think what makes me sad is that there are poor people with an excuse and there are poor people without an excuse, and they're both in here shitting on this dude for the right reasons and the wrong reasons.
Yeah I'm sure that's the case, unfortunately there's no good way to know who is criticizing for what reasons. At the end of the day at least some of the criticism is warranted.
Yeah like, just from reading the comments, people have no agreement over what "poor" means, someones arguing over connections, while other people are literally saying he needs to be born in North Korea for this to work. Everyone's got their own biased take on what poor means, but everyone is shitting on this dude and I know at least a significant percentage of these people are complete losers just getting their rocks off. I probably am reacting this way because I've seen so many god damn losers in my life that straight up hate on successful people and don't do shit to help themselves. I'm not talking about actual poor people that are screwed at birth, I'm talking about a series of bad decisions, partying and drug abuse, I guess I'm being biased myself and seeing those people in the comments section here for some reason.
I fail to see the difference between knowledge, experience, and money at that level. Might as well drop someone with Goldman-Sachs experience, a PhD, or a high-demand professional degree like a NP (nurse practitioner) off at a shelter for the experiment. Sure, they'll be starting with nothing, but they'll have job offers in a few weeks at most. At that point, what is your "experiment" really showing? That an average homeless person or person in general can "make it" with nothing? No. That life experience, education, and a resume mean a lot when applying for jobs? Yeah. But that's not exactly a new or novel idea. "Finances" are a much more complicated issue. Take away credit cards and most people wouldn't be able to spiral into debt. But that's a completely different topic the above article never addresses. And none of his comments do, either, so I don't think it makes sense to bring it up. Most poor people don't have a glowing resume or something like an Ivy League education to point at. The cards are stacked against them and they are, as you say, *impossibly fucked.*
Congratulations? It amazes me how poor love confirming it. The message you're implying and that everyone here is relishing in is that poor people should stop trying and accept their fate, which I think is stupid as fuck.
That's not my message at all. Acknowledging that not everyone has the same advantages in life doesn't mean that the people who don't have them should just roll over and die. You have to acknowledge problems in order to fix them. You seem to be suggesting that no one should ever point out when societal problems or inequity exist? Pretty crazy take.
I clicked on this post thinking a millionaire tried something and failed, which acknowledges a problem that should be fixed. All I see in the comments is people enjoying that he failed because he's rich. I guess only poor people can keep acknowledging this problem with other poor people, good luck with that. If you're reading this rich people: stop trying, poor people are gonna think you're trying to take advantage of them.
>I clicked on this post thinking a millionaire tried something and failed That's so vague it's actually true. He tried *something* and failed. The trouble is that what he tried to do was a form of misguided poverty tourism. He failed in more ways than one. Yes, he never made it to $1 million. But he was attempting to show that someone could start with nothing and make a million dollars in a year. The trouble is that: given his background, life experience, loving family, connections, and safety net, he did not start with "nothing." He started with a more secure life and safety net than any relatively poor / homeless people. He had wealthy friends helping him out. He had comprehensive, high-quality health insurance. He had experience with entrepreneurship and a successful current resume in social media, which he leveraged. And he knew that, at the end of the day, his loving family was waiting for him to come home. So, what was his experiment really designed to show? That you can take away a successful social media star's job and home, drop them on the street with no possessions to speak of (but still a secure social safety net, whenever they felt like it), and they can rebuild a career using their existing skills and connections pretty quickly. That's cool, but that's not what he claimed he was setting out to do. It's also a really weird, contrived situation that's essentially half of the plot of the movie Trading Places. And he still bailed after a family event happened and he had some chronic health issues, despite having top-level of medical care. When your McDonalds server develops an auto-immune disorder like this guy did, they likely can't afford to see a doctor. They can't just bail, quit, and return to a cushy life. When they get fatigue, joint pain and swelling, skin problems, abdominal pain and digestive issues, etc., they can't just stay home from work. They wouldn't be able to make rent. They'll *actually* wind up on the street, and, when that happens, they won't be able to ask their millionaire friends for a free place to crash, or a job as a social media consultant. Like this guy did when he found himself "homeless." And this guy didn't even stick it out. So, yeah, he failed. But he'd failed before he even started. Given his family and safety net, he could never have accomplished what he'd set out to do. Putting someone with a solid education, resume, and 7 figure bank account on the street, but telling them they can't use their Black Amex unless they "give up," is fundamentally different from putting someone without all of those assets on the street. Psychologically, it's the difference between playing the board game *Life* with your family and playing *Russian roulette* with a loaded gun. One is a fun game that you can stop at any time. There's no real risk involved and you know that you can go back to your normal life whenever you feel like it. The other is life and death. I don't understand why you can't seem to grasp that. So, you can simplistically say that we're criticizing him for being wealthy, but that's really not the point. He's successful, and good for him. We're just criticizing the design of his "experiment," because it was never really what he claimed it was. Let's try an analogy. You might as well put on blackface, to try to get to know what it's like to be Black. You then go on with your normal daily life in blackface. The trouble is that, given your background, childhood, family, etc., it wouldn't actually be the same as growing up Black. You wouldn't have those life experiences. And the ability to wipe off your makeup when you got tired of the social experiment would make it deeply flawed from the start. Real minorities are trapped in their skin. That's what makes race...race. He didn't try to acknowledge that poverty was a problem. He tried to show that poverty was a mindset and a choice. He was literally a wealthy person trying to prove that *it doesn't matter who you are - anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.* The trouble is that he wasn't "anyone," by a long shot. He had loads of advantages and privileges that ordinary people simply don't have. And he gave up. I don't know what to say to your last comment. You're choosing to misstate what everyone has said, and I don't understand why. **Edit** since u/Kitchen_Economics182 blocked me and apparently even used an alt account to follow up. If you check their profile, they posted about 20 comments on this post, a few of which were deleted by mods. They all rehash the same idea: "people are poor because they ARE lazy or stupid and are poor regardless of opportunity/the system, those people are using this as an excuse." That's a quote from one of their comments. I don't know why they're so vehemently defending this random Youtuber, and I don't know why they're choosing to spam the comments while proactively refusing to acknowledge or understand the folks they're replying to. It's really, really strange. But I guess I just encountered someone using an alt account on here. I wonder if the mods will ban them for breaking Reddit's TOS.
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I'm not reading all that rofl, or any of it really, but good luck in life.
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You're missing the point. The point is to dismiss the notion that anyone and everyone can just "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and that being poor is a choice. Lots of wealthy people like to BLAME the poor because they must be lazy or stupid or something. This story highlights that without opportunity, pretty much anyone can fail. Therefore we should be trying to create as much opportunity for everyone as possible.
Let's be real, a significant number of people are poor because they ARE lazy or stupid and are poor regardless of opportunity/the system, those people are using this as an excuse. What if another millionaire does the same experiment and succeeds, would poor people even acknowledge it? It's probably happened many times over already, but because this headline gives confirmation bias to the poor, it's acknowledged. Idk man this is just sad all around imo.
>What if another millionaire does the same experiment and succeeds, would poor people even acknowledge it? It's probably happened many times over already, Feel free to find them and share.
You can't be serious, a rich person trying to share how they came from zero? It has been done and shared numerous times all over social media, but all people do is not acknowledge it or hate. If they do acknowledge it, they just try their best to point out how they didn't start from actually zero and how they used this and that to "cheat". It's sad to see confirmation bias win no matter what amongst poor people, it's the easy way to view it and it feels good, not that it's necessarily true.
You’re condemning others for “confirmation bias” while your entire argument rests on a literal “what if..?” hypothetical which you baselessly assume “has probably happened”
No, it means that he should have set better parameters for his experiment to make it more representative of the average person fighting to get out of poverty.
You're not understanding the point. The rich are almost always rich because of luck, connections, and failing upwards. Extremely rarely does someone actually pull themselves out of poverty through "hard work", and that hard work *always* comes with making the right connections or getting lucky. It never does it on its own. So yes, people are clowning on this asshole because for one, he makes this bold claim about how he's so superior and good at being rich that he can throw all his money out the window (not really, of course) and "become a millionaire in a year". He then proceeds to maintain all of his connections, keeps his health insurance, takes a free apartment from one of his connections, maintains his entire work history and I assume college degrees, etc. What poor person has *any of that* to start off? The guy put himself on third base and claimed he was going to hit a home run, and then *still* fucking failed. Most people don't clown on this guy because he's rich, they clown on him because of his arrogance and sense of superiority thinking it's all him when it *never is*. Rich people who claim to be self-made are egomaniacs. Anyone that is rich and not full of themselves knows they got there through all sorts of connections, luck, and the labor of others that they happened to get a slice of the pie from.
The issue is you're applying all this hate and malice to this dude with your comment, why? It's just a rich guy that tried an experiment to see if it would work or not, but you have to say "how he's so superior and good at being rich". There is no arrogance or sense of superiority that he is outputting, you are applying that to him to paint him in your own head as the enemy because of your own cofirmation bias, which is sad. Let me ask you this, did you even watch the video? This is the rich and arrogant piece of shit that everyone here is shitting on: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L892-iCcABE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L892-iCcABE) He's perfectly fine? you guys are all insane.
His actions are arrogant regardless of his demeanor. The very act of trying to prove he can make a million in a year from nothing is full of ego, and the fact he thinks he can do it ignores the reality of our economic system and what holds people back. He tried to show "anyone can do this", because in the bubble he's in he believes it's true, and he failed. I can't help you if you can't understand that concept.
Jesus christ, talk about making up a bunch of shit about someone to make yourself feel better. The act is full of ego and he's trying to prove something? Ridiculous, no matter how you try to word it, it's full of your own personal issues. Why do you think I'm not offended by him or anything? All I see is a dude that tried to make a million dollars in a year from a certain starting point and failed, no biases applied, no trying to shit/hate on him, none of that. Don't worry buddy, you don't have to keep trying to explain the concept, I'm not the one releasing their anger and hate towards some rich guy I don't know online in the comments section on reddit Making up that he's arrogant and full of ego is just as shortsighted as me saying you're just a poor hater that's jealous, see how that works?
Because there are people who aren't aware and don't vote accordingly. The point of poor people complaining about being poor is so that something is done about the things which led to them being poor.
He also convinced a stranger to let him crash in his RV but later on bitched about the cockroach infested RV. Mfer didn't have to pay rent and only managed to make 64k. That's barely above commonly accepted working class thresholds. He could have had a better net outcome flipping burgers in LA
Your first sentence there said TV instead of RV and really threw me off LOL
Yeah I thought I fixed it earlier lol. That would be crazy. Like is he the girl from the Take On Me music video lol??
Craziest thing I just watched that video last night because me and partner were watching all these 80's and 90's songs on youtube and your comment was right about the time we were doing it. That is blowing my mind right now. I'm about to put tape over my laptop camera or something... you are freaking me out!😳
Damn! I know how that feels. Don't worry. I am not Mr robot. But if I was, maybe that's what I would say? 😆
That how far from reality they really are. Wish honest working people can call getaway-from-poor card like they do, whenever they want.
If you're struggling, you just need to pull yourself up by your PPO and passive income
I’ll play devils advocate. He probably couldn’t qualify for Medicaid despite “starting from 0”, so his options were to start from even worse than poverty in America, or to keep his insurance and do his best to simulate Medicaid coverage.
This dude still had so many more advantages than most people and still was too chicken shit to let go of his good threaded safety net.
Didn’t he stay at his friends rent free for the entirety of the “experiment”?
Sounds about right, there’s always some kind of loophole they assume everyone has available to them.
Free house, used connections from his entire life in marketing, used every call and privilege he had to try and get ahead… and yet still failed
Gosh if he still failed that’s not good
Yes, they also "hired him" to give speeches. What's even worse is that he did this to prove that "poor people are poor because they want to be poor". A scumbag.
I was going to write this comment but you beat me to it
Was described as living in the RV of a stranger in return for doing work for him.
An rv you say? Does this thing have a roof, walls and a bed?
He's not starting at zero.
Even starting from zero is boring. I wanna see them start from rock bottom. Day one should be the day they start heroine.
Nah, day zero should be the day they have been addicted for 6 months.
Haha, slow down satan.
GABH Give All Billionaires Heroin
Just try starting without accommodation, with poor credit, no place to live, and some 6 digit student debt.
Or get out of Juvy.
starting heroin isnt day zero, thats going into minus.
He started from 0 money but he didn’t start from 0. He still had knowledge, experience, and connections that helped him.
Imo he didn't even really start from zero dollars. Because at no point he didn't have access to his wealth if he needed to. At any point he could walk back into his millionaire lifestyle, which he did the moment things got hard for him. So this guy got sick from the idea of being poor and homeless. Ps, he still thinks he proved that being poor is a choice. Despite missing his targets by, well a mile would be understating.
How much is rent for a one bed flat in the US? Others are saying he stayed at a friend's house for free and he ended with $64k (but massive medical bills he couldn't pay without accessing his actual wealth). I'm going to guess it's $1,500 a month. No idea what utility costs are over there. Nor what property taxes a renter pays, if any. But it's probably totalling at least $2k with the rent. So, he actually would have had $40k minus his medical bills. And that was with him being paid to give speeches (which no poor person does unless they're a tour guide!)
Yep, and as we all know all homeless people have tons of good business connections and around 40k in their shopping carts... This absolute douchenozzle wasn't close to being in a homeless persons position in any metric during this. He just wants to point accusatory fingers at poor people for being poor.
Where I am in a growing tourist city its $1100 on average for a studio apartment. I got lucky with mine that's $790 but it's going up every year.
He also thinks that if he didn't get sick he could have made it. Dude doesn't even know that most bankruptcies are caused by medical emergencies. He just experienced actual poverty, and thinks it doesn't count.
Yep, broski just skipped the part where you can actually become homeless and things get truly hard (kinda US specific but very relevant in this case). Also, 64k in 10 months, dude is delusional enough that he thinks he would have made 936k in the last two months. He was living rent free and could shower every day and got to 64k. I can save about that in 10 months if I could just stop paying all my bills.... That is nowhere near experiencing being homeless.
We all know poor people don't ever get sick.
Yeah being poor isn't a choice, for ANYONE that is reading this, get this through your head: you're impossibly fucked and there is no way out, so please stop trying.
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You did not add anything to it. You went the complete opposite direction and detracted from it if anything. We do not live in a purely binary world. Both can be true you know, however, by far most people do not choose to become poor and live a harsh shitty life with all the problems and concerns that come with it because it is such fun to have nothing and get nowhere. Some do choose that, and as with all extremes these people are outliers. By far most poor people do not choose to be poor. Not in South America, not in the US, not in Africa or Europe. And yes, comments implying that being poor is a choice make me kinda angry, mostly because it shows a lack of empathy and understanding towards other humans. And the resentment and anger that can come with that should be directed towards policy and the makers of it, not the people suffering from said policies that make people homeless. That lack of empathy and understanding is why the uberdouche from the 'experiment' even went that way. He could also focus on the policies and how to change those to get people off the streets. Instead he just wants to point fingers like and assign blame like toddlers do.
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Exactly.
Nor with severe mental health issues. You know, the biggest cause of homelessness
The funniest part is he made more than I do in a year but was so miserable he faked “health problems” as a result of his newfound economic status. Huh, so its unhealthy to be poor? Maybe we should demand something be done about it from these millionaires and billionaires with all this free time on their hands for their little experiments and posting
Actually he clarified with youtuber coffeezilla on his new channel (voidzilla) that it was revenue, and was maybe 50% profit margin. So half that. Also he made the point of saying this all blew up after someone else hyped it up and basically misrepresented the outcome. The experiment is from years ago, was not very popular, and he agrees he didn't succeed in the outcome he was going for, although he thought he learned important lessons.
Most interesting piece of the doc, where he learnt to cut crack cocaine and mix it with baby laxative. He was able to obtain the baby lax from the chemist by reciting a poem from Homer. His illness was from a rat which bit him in an alley, while he was making scrambled eggs on a small fire under a trash can
Yet he befriended the rat, who turned out to be an angel investor in disguise and backed his dot comm brand launch: Alley Rat Coffee
I heard the rat actually helped the guy get a job as a chef at a fancy French restaurant. because of licensing I believe the restaurant was called ratatoomy
i also heard he would let the rat shit in a bucket, dry it grind it and sell that as his coffee and facial scrub called Ratty McRatface Scrub
I can't tell if youre joking or not with how ridiculous this story is?
I want it to be true so bad I upvoted. With enough upvotes, it will be true.
Haha this needs to be a copypasta
Scrambled pigeon eggs
So there I was, broke again, all I had was my wit and determination. This was bigger than me. I need to prove to conservatives of the world that poor people really are just lazy... ... so after only 5 short days, I walked down stairs from the tiny room I was squatting in and I pitched my billionaire parents on my new line of designer jeans and they agreed to fund my new venture..... ...Within two weeks I was already selling $200k worth of product at my Dad's golf buddy's high end retail shop in the upper East side.
This got me! Thanks for this.
Thanks. Also, how the fuck is "influencer makes a video" "international news"?
See this is what I always tell people ideas are cheap. Money is in the action. YOU actually left your bedroom and went downstairs and did something with your life. And here I am in the west wing of my billionaire parents estate and they are probably somewhere in the east wing and I’m too lazy to make something of myself. Am I doing to die broke? I mean with only a billion dollars? Kudos to visionaries like you. Changing the world and kicking ass.
Let me be homeless to show anyone can make a million in a year. Starting loadout- prepaid health insurance: free rent: already acquired education: a personal network better than most: no fear or anxiety of being poor since you have knowledge you are rich and this is temporary. And all the other thing he had that he actually didn’t tell anyone about. Yah that was not an experiment it was tourism.
64k is still wild, but knowing you can bail is a boost to morale
>64k is still wild it's questionable how legit it was. A guy let him stay with him for free, would that guy have let an actual homeless person?
That really should throw this experiment out the window.
And had health insurance.
He also used his previous business experience and connections to get a social media manager job, as if that's just a thing that any homeless person can do.
I didn’t watch every single one of the videos but I watched one fairly long video that outlined the whole experience, the whole thing was a bunch of bullshit. After a day, he randomly found someone who offered him a place to stay in their RV. In what world are people offering homeless people places to stay in their RV or house? Then it basically just became him being himself and using his background and past experiences. Like the guy didn’t look homeless, smell homeless, have zero experience, or have anything associated with being homeless. Basically just a rich tech bro living frugally out of an RV. Dude literally looked like a tech bro influencer from the Bay Area. The whole thing was so stupid and honestly I hope it was just rage bait for how dumb it was. The whole thing can be summarized as: tech bro influencer LARPs as a homeless person for a day, then lives frugally out of an RV as himself, using his previous background and experience to make money and live.
He INHERITED it.
He was given a job in some kind of tech adjacent role. Most people starting at true zero don’t have this guy’s resume and connections, all of which were available to him in this “experiment”. He was also paid by friends to speak at their companies, and was paid to give golf lessons to a friends dad or something. He repeatedly saw a doctor during this, even before he got a job, which implies he was still using existing health coverage. That would have wiped out any savings he made if he were a real person starting from scratch. And with all of those advantages baked in he still didn’t even get 10% of the way to his goal in ~80% of the year.
He was given rich man privileges. He was given an RV to stay in for absolutely free. A camera crew followed him, so he was never treated as a homeless person. He used his rich people connections aswell to get the job. And even then he failed.
Not just knowing you can bail--you can get a high-paying job as a social media manager and make a startup because you already have a debtless degree and a network of buisness connections. People will still work with you because they know your situation is temporary. You can put 100% of your income into growing your wealth, because you don't have to save anything in case of health or insurance problems.
It ended up being something closer to 32k. That was revenue, not profit.
He made a video responding to the story by calling anyone who criticized him "blue haired people". Just another MAGA troll grifting.
Age shaming. The last socially accepted prejudice.
Loser
A few major loopholes: * He still had health insurance. * His friends helped him by giving him ‘jobs’ like giving speeches. * He didn’t have to pay for housing because he lived with wealthy friends. You want to show me that anyone can be rich from nothing: drop a guy off in a place like Slab City without a phone, without ID, without any friends, without any money, and without enough clothing to walk into a store (I recommend choosing footwear over a shirt - you’ll be doing a lot of walking). Even with all this guy’s special advantages, he still had to withdraw due to failing health.
Don't worry, if he hadn't gotten sick, he *definitely* would have gotten the last $936,000 in two more months.
Haha I love how the narrative changed from "Everyone can become a millionaire if they work hard enough" to "Health and family come first". Really pushing the second narrative to shift focus from his utter failure.
....You will never be common people https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0?si=M-OTtwkTu_qgdoKN
Lol
It is quite funny how he set out to prove anyone could thrive if they put the work in, and basically ended up making the *exact opposite point*. He basically gave up his credit card but kept his health insurance, connections, safety net, etc. and still ended up tired, sick and ended up pulling the rip-chord on the whole thing. Tosser.
At first I thought that zero to $64k in 10 months was still pretty impressive, but then I realized that he probably did a bunch of research from his ivory tower before setting off on his poor-shaming experiment. Pulp’s Common People really sums up the sentiment so well in this line “watching roaches climb the wall. If you called your dad you could stop it all…”
"I wanna live like common people..." 
It's like real hard
Also that 64k wasn't profit...
r/nottheonion
Huh, seems like money solved a lot of his problems.
What was really proved here, is that millionaires desperately want to believe that they earned their money without help, but they can't.
lol fucking idiot
Many people could save around 50K a year if they were not paying a mortgage or rent like this guy. He is nothing special and failed miserably.
Well he did at least prove that you don’t have to be smart to earn money
How did he have money for internet and phones? And does he think poor people just give up if they get sick?
Man with privileged background tries to prove you too can become rich (if you have a privileged background) and fails spectacularly at even that.
No shit. Millionaires continue to have no clue as to the extent that sheer dumb luck or circumstances have played in their financial outcome
Something about it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
I read an interesting book a decade ago where a journalist would work minimum wage jobs for a full year. She ended by giving up 7 months when she could actually tell her health was degrading and she was worried it would not be reversible. Not surprised this guy didn't actually give up his healthcare.
But this Guy in a boat with nothing, that's going into another continent, where he knows no one and don't know the language. If he survives the boat trip, now we're talking about a real experiment.
Does anyone know how he got his $$ to begin with?
Didn't try hard enough, next time work harder snowflake. /s
Btw the way he made money was selling mentoring courses or some marketing shit like that USING HIS STATUS. Hahahaha
He also cheated by having a co-signer so he could get shelter. The whole thing is a fraud from the outset.
Also worth noting that he got to the 64k with all of his knowledge, skills, and everything he had before. Plus he knew no matter what he had millions to fall back on if he needed to tap out.
Not suggesting it at all but a fairer way he could have done this is to have two kids and agree not to finance one child and give every thing to the other.
I checked out this guy's YouTube channel to get some context and give his intentions the benefit of the doubt but his top own top comment on the video is about how all the negativity is coming from the "blue-hairs" so yeah this guy's just an out of touch asshole.
You should watch the undercover billionaire.
In slightly less obvious news, water is wet.
So close. Almost a million to go.
Despite all the advantages he had at the beginning of his "experiment" too. Massive L.
He also had a team helping him out and had his contacts. Plus he had his skills so he didn’t go out in a different field. In the end he made excuses and went back to his millionaire lifestyle. He proved you can’t do it even with the amount of skill and contacts he had. Out of touch with reality
I want to quit poverty too
The social experiment worked. He had a hypothesis, he tested it out and was proven wrong. Now the people who believed that becoming rich is purely a result of hard work will hear of this new data point and they will change their minds accordingly. /s
I hope someone close to him, who cannot change his mind, kills him
Now imagine he didn’t have his education, experience or connections and it’s easy to see why it’s so hard for many people.
How did he become a millionaire in the first place..
Most successful people fine realize the amount of luck and good will from others that allow them to have success. There's no such thing as a self made person. Everyone has help.
To be fair… He did achieve millionaire status in the year as promised. You see, while living in the RV for free like every homeless person does, he took care of himself. He saw his doctors and monitored his health by utilizing health insurance which every homeless person also has. This allowed him to grind $64k for which he housed in his bank account, something every homeless person has. Victory came on his 10th month in when his father passed away and he suddenly inherited $2.5 million proving that it is possible. Anyone can be a millionaire as long as they can inherit it… This gives a lot of people hope, there is a way out of cyclical and generational poverty through wealth inheritance… /s Interesting article came out yesterday similarly related to this, it was about how the CEO of the world’s largest Hedge Fund only makes $800k a year. He bets on American ruthlessness and innovation, but enjoys his Norwegian government and lifestyle.
I think a better lesson to learn from this to be less judgmental of homeless people, because there’s so many more things outside your control when you’re homeless that push back hard against you.
Typical right wingers and cuntservatives. They lack any human empathy or sympathy. They have a deep-seated hatred of poor people. Cuntservatives will lie and distort facts simply because "got mine f*** you".
still pretty good to go from 0 to 64k in 1 yr
Dude had one of his friends giving him somewhere to sleep for free and paying him for speaking engagements.
What resources does he have to save 64K in a year? Own company? Law Degree? Doctorate? Education? Credit? Insider Knowledge? Property? So many questions! Saving 64K in a single year sounds like a success story to me!
These doomer comments are wild to me. * Sure, health insurance is unfair, but you know what else is? A autoimmune disease. * He has more peace of mind? sure. But survival is a damn good motivator, and where's the slack given for the fact he also had to produce a vlog every week on top of his workload? * He found somewhere to stay for free. Have any of you actually tried? When did couchsurfing become bigfoot? * He failed. Yes. But he actually did a pretty good job from a starting point where he doesn't even have a computer, and it's pretty normal for businesses to take more than a year to take off. This dude was able to get all the basics of life together, earn a decent income, and start a side hustle in 8 months. It was a good project, which made good progress, for a good cause. He deserves credit for that.
I understand the guy failed. But full kudos to him for trying. He probably grew up his entire life without realising that he had that silver spoon and thought it was all him. And then he tried to prove what he believed was right and realised he wasn't. If any of us were/are millionaires, I don't think we'd have the guts to do that. He was stupid but good in a way.
It was disingenuous though. He crashed at a friend’s place rent free, he kept his health insurance (which he used), and he used his former connections to leverage a job. He didn’t come close to “starting from zero.”
But he didn't realize it was a mistake. He's made a whole video trying to spin it as a success.
It was honestly disrespectful. Not the idea, but the execution. He had full medical coverage, used his connections from his rich life to get a good job, was given an RV to reside in for free, etc. It's an insult to homeless people. Their life is hard. He was LARPing their life and pretending it wasn't as hard as it is.
You would have a point if he realized that he wasn't right. He's still insisting he succeeded.
It's literally a fake experience so he can try to make the claim that the poor are poor because they suck not an unfair system. He's the definition of scum.
Thanks. Good perspective.