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u/HeMiddleStartInT 15h ago

Cā€™mon, bootstraps! Just a littleā€¦moreā€¦ (snap)

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u/Ok_Description8169 6d ago

Wow, imagine getting to "QUIT" being poor. What a chode.

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u/Antoshka_007 6d ago

Probably get a new appreciation for others and a bit of empathy. But then againā€¦ I doubt it.

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u/Tullyally 6d ago

Iā€™ll agree with the latter

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u/Better-Snow-7191 6d ago

His dad died of cancer and left him $2.7 million. So, technically, he reached his goal.

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u/WeebleKeneeble 7d ago

People forget the 3 Ds of being successful. Dedication to your business, Demand for your business, and Dumb Luck that you happened to be in the right business at the right time to pop off. The 3rd D is not something that can be replicated easily or every dedicated dodo would be rich.

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u/BarnacleBoring2979 7d ago

That's like Gwyneth Paltrow who took the food stamp challenge to prove the poor could afford her overpriced garbage and gave up after 2 days.

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u/Exotic_Thoughts82 7d ago

Almost like being poor is bad for you

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u/Accurate-Case8057 8d ago

There's nothing real about reality shows

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u/troubleschute 8d ago

I'm gonna quit being poor so I can also afford healthcare.

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u/Lynke524 8d ago

Just goes to show no one would be poor of their own design.

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u/MarkCM07 8d ago

Yeah not so easy, is it?

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u/no1madelynn 8d ago

hey at least he got to touch grass šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/DrFabio23 8d ago

Not that bizarre. There's a literal TV show called Undercover Billionaire that gives Billionaires $100 and a shitbox for 90 days.

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u/Dentingwater7 8d ago

Didnā€™t he actually make most of the money before he quit though?

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u/VoidCoelacanth 8d ago

The last I read about an update (prior to this) he was about 6-7 months in and had only made 27k.

Assuming he made a fairly constant amount of money week-to-week from the beginning, and continued at the same pace, that would have him on-track to make ~52k by the end of the year.

For comparison, you would need to work a job paying $25/hr to gross 52k. So he basically managed to do slightly better than the average American but nowhere near his goal.

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u/Dentingwater7 8d ago

Yea thatā€™s what I thought. So in the end he still proved to people that you can still make a lot of money if you try hard enough

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u/VoidCoelacanth 8d ago

Problem: He still wasn't "starting from the bottom." He still has years of work and business experience behind him, he already knew what kind of business was feasible and a "good fit" for him.

Think of it this way: He was attempting the equivalent of a Level 1 Challenge after already knowing how to play the game. A brand new player attempting the same will, more often than not, spend their entire time stumbling, frustrated, and failing.

What he has really "proved" is that if you already know a good strategy and have the skills to execute that strategy, you can start with zero capital and do alright. But he still has to call-off his challenge over health concerns, which suggests someone WITHOUT the advantages he had would do worse, putting their life on the line.

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u/lonely-day 8d ago

Those health concerns being he inherited 2.4 million dollars

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u/dominarhexx 8d ago

Free place to stay. Started with more money than the average poor person makes in a year. Kept his health insurance. Made money because his buddy gave him good paying speaking gigs. What a joke.

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u/PhilosopherMagik 9d ago

Arrogance is the best enemy of stupid men...

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u/Dr-Eternity-42 9d ago

I remember reading something about this, someone he started a couple businesses, but then contracted some sort of infection and decided to quit after he recovered

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u/Damack363 9d ago

This is the type of person that should not have wealth. Completely irresponsible misuse of funds.

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u/StCrispin1969 9d ago

Sad part is he still has all his money. All he has to do is just go get it out of his trust fund, stocks, bank, and assets.

Being homeless on purpose as a rich person lacks the impact of of homelessness and poverty on those with no safety net.

Actual poor people canā€™t just choose to ā€œquitā€.

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u/JakeConhale 9d ago

Just... for the love of Star Trek, why not just take the money and put it into a CD or something to make it inaccessible rather than getting rid of it?

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u/OdocoileusDeus 9d ago

Another entitled dipshit who deluded themselves into thinking mommy and daddy's money somehow made them more special than everyone else.

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u/Hator4de 9d ago

Same guy that got a 2.4 million inheritance?

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u/344567653379643555 9d ago

Are his bootstraps pulled up yet?

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u/CoopertheBarrelWoman 9d ago

He quite because me "made" a million by inheriting it

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u/Initial-Wrongdoer938 10d ago

Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

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u/Why_Not_Just_ 10d ago

These people ALWAYS have help in some form to get where they are. Whether it's initial investment capital, a cosigner for a loan, knowing someone for an in, or even someone offering a place to crash.

Noone is a "self made" millionaire without some help from somewhere.

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u/HooliganS_Only 10d ago

How did he quit if he made himself broke and homeless on purpose? He must not have made himself broke or homeless. He just camped for a little bit

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u/KenzieTheCuddler 9d ago

He has a family, he just gave his wife his cards I think it was

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u/ShartDonkey 10d ago

Heā€™s a moron

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u/scarlozzi 10d ago

No shit. The game is rigged against us. Now, I guess this jackass knows

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u/FeePsychological6778 10d ago

Fission Mailed?

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u/KoRnKloWn 10d ago

What everyone is missing is this proves you can just quit being homeless and broke. All these homeless broke people need to just choose to be a millionaire like this guy! Manifestation people! Manifestation!

/s obviously, lol

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u/Puzzleheaded_Blood40 10d ago

Anyone finds it's misinformation?

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u/Flaky_Tumbleweed3598 10d ago

What they forget to mention is that this millionaire just happened to land a marketing job, which allowed him to buy an RV from a friend, before then starting a start up business and earning enough to pay his friend fully back for the RV.

Couple of huge factors here.

  1. Most homeless people on the streets don't have the education or professional connections to score a sweet well paying marketing job right away.

  2. Most homeless people don't know anyone who just happens to have an RV that they'd be willing to sell at a heavy discount to a friend.

  3. Most homeless people don't have professional connections in the business world to get networking with an idea or product that's probably already been developed prior to becoming homeless.

So yeah, just because you remove the money and give someone nothing to build a fortune on, doesn't make that person equal with an actual broke and homeless person.

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u/gratefulninja 10d ago

He did make over $60k during his experiment. Not only that, but he found housing, purchased an RV that a stranger had let him sleep in and donated it back to the guy, gained employment, started a business and brought a product to market. His health issues are unrelated to the experiment.

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u/ShartDonkey 10d ago

Do poor people not have health issues?

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u/gratefulninja 10d ago

I don't understand the nature of your question.

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u/ShartDonkey 10d ago

How are health issues unrelated to the experiment if itā€™s something that another person in the situation hes putting himself into could face?

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Ha Ha

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u/frozenflameinthewind 10d ago edited 10d ago

These experiments trying to prove that poor people just arenā€™t ā€œpulling themselves up by the boot strapsā€ always end because of ā€œhealth concerns.ā€ A guy in the 90s wanted to challenge assertions in a book about Americaā€™s poor. Did the same thing as this guy. Didnā€™t end up finishing the experiment due to ā€œhealth issuesā€ Uh huh

Edit: Oh! Looked up the Wikipedia article about the guy and his book. Turns out he was using FOOD STAMPS for 70 days of his experiment. Talk about pulling yourself up indeed.

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u/eveprog 10d ago

For anyone who doesnā€™t know the story. He actually did a really great job at this experiment. He was homeless for a long time then lived in a guys trailer until he took off. I highly recommend looking into it as itā€™s really fascinating what this guy did.

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u/KettchupIsDead 10d ago

he had to stop because his dad died of cancer and then he himself came down with an autoimmune disease (note, ke KEPT going even with his dad dying. any heartless millionaire wouldā€™ve thrown in the towel then). he really tried his best to be a genuine person, not all rich people are dicks. fuck off.

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u/AgreeableAquilifer 10d ago

takes a huge drag on a black n mild

Welcome to the fuckin show

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u/TheObsidianHawk 10d ago

We should make Congress do this.

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u/-FemboiCarti- 10d ago edited 10d ago

Allegedly, he managed to make just over $60k during his homeless adventure. He says he made this by selling furniture on Craigslist then buying a computer to start a coffee brandā€¦ pretty dubious to say the least

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u/PricklySquare 10d ago

Bro was about to experience some trauma, the #1 cause of homelessness, but he chickened out like the scumbag he is. Come on bro, let's see you deal with some trauma

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u/DavesProps 10d ago

Dude its not the 80s-90s anymore. You millionaire guys fucked us all with corruptly sponsored deregulation of banking industry among others, sprinkle that with massive tax cuts for them and corporate welfare when your business fails from bad managment then multi million dollar handouts to the guys on their way out while you pay the workers still doing the jobs SQUAT. They have rigged the game and bitch about us not pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps....BULLSHIT

Perfect example is Trump Media stock.... a complete scam allowed to run and make a so called millionaire BILLIONS more and for what....a failing company.....Its a donation to Trump disguised as a legit business for the stock market when in fact its loosing millions, has empty offices and a fraction of the users as any other media company. They let him rig his own game and nobody stopped him. Ridiculous that it was ever allowed and proves how much of a scam the stock market has become. Its a rigged game and we dont have the keys to the car

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u/DamNamesTaken11 10d ago

And Iā€™m willing to wager that he didnā€™t learn a damn thing from it.

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u/GarbageCleric 10d ago

I'm so sick of everyone dunking on this guy like he's an out-of-touch failure. Obviously, you can't go from homeless to being a millionaire if you have health concerns. It's just bad luck really. What are the odds that all of these lazy poor people have health concerns themselves or in their family? He totes would have done it if he just didn't have any biological requirements to stay alive. And you can too. Anyone who doesn't is just making excuse for their own laziness.

Just don't have a family or any health issues or any accidents or be the victim of any crimes (soooo easy for the homeless since they don't even have stuff to steal), and then have a pre-existing millionaire network, education, and experience and it's as easy as pie to become rich.

/s

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u/jmradus 10d ago

Couple weeks later: ā€œhonestly everyone should quit being homeless I donā€™t see the appeal.ā€

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u/NormalGuyManDude 10d ago

His mysterious ailments just sound like depression to me.

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u/gazadcoomber 10d ago

Is this a Pulp song???

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u/iansmash 10d ago

Iā€™ve been purposely broke for a decade and unlike this fucking quitter, I donā€™t see myself ever stopping šŸ˜‚

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u/The_riles_s 10d ago

he actually did alright, made an e-commerce brand that made 60 grand. then his dad got like stage 4 cancer. so not really his fault but it doesnā€™t definitely show how capable people with good ideas can just get unlucky

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u/siiighhhs 10d ago

What are these health concerns? Unless heā€™s on his deathbed, he needs to work.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

Tbf, he was up to like 65k in the challenge, but stopped because he got a rare form of cancer.

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u/Garbarrage 10d ago

I'm Irish. Outside of Ireland, we're known as jovial, friendly, drunkards, scholars and a bunch of other things depending on who you ask. Within Ireland, we're a nation of begrudgers. In other countries, they see someone living in a big house on a hill and think, "Someday I want to live in a big house on a hill too.". In Ireland they think, "Look at that prick. Who does he think he is!? He obviously has notions about himself.".

Even the innate begrudgery of Ireland pales in comparison to the bullshit in these comments.

This article left out some important details:

Black ended the challenge having completed 10 months, with just 60 days left to run. He had managed to make a grand total of $64,000.Ā 

Despite failing to make the million dollars he had aimed for, Black says it was still a successful experiment after demonstrating how it wasĀ possible to rebuild his life through the power of determination.

Sure, he didn't make a million dollars. He did pretty well, though. And he worked his ass off during the challenge, while also overcoming his Dad being diagnosed with cancer and himself being diagnosed with a couple of autoimmune diseases.

He wasn't doing it to belittle other peoples' struggles. He was doing it to show people who lost everything during Covid that it's not hopeless. That they can come back. He wasn't trying to make it look easy. He was trying to make it look possible.

Yes, the world is shit right now. Especially for young people. Honestly, it's always been shit for young people though. Maybe not as bad as right now, but certainly at the time, it was always hard to start in life.

Nobody wants to be condescended to and told to pull up their bootstraps and just work hard, but given the options of either a) complaining and making light of other's efforts or b) doing the best you can with the cards you've been dealt, there's really only one e choice that has a chance of ending well.

There are inequalities that need to be sorted on the macro-scale, but in everyone's day to day life, you still need to get on with it. You can't just rage until the world sorts itself out.

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u/Dudinkalv 10d ago

Good job proving the opposite of what you tried to prove man.

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u/LEGamesRose 10d ago

same energy as the people who waterboard themselves

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u/KipRaccoon 10d ago

On top of what everyone else is saying, he probably still won't believe what he tried can't be done because he "had to quit because of poor health". I full heartedly believe this will be seen as an unexpected complication, and not par for the course.

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u/Kindly-Equipment400 10d ago

I would also like to quit being poor for my health

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u/Ki11s0n3 10d ago

He failed. Health concerns is just an excuse. He had two months to make over 900k. It wasn't going to happen so he quit. Proving that these rich people are full of shit and it's not easy getting ahead in life when you have nothing. Even though he went into it with advantages like clean clothes, a working phone and knowledge of all the apps and shit to use to make money which most homeless and poor people don't have.

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u/KD1030 10d ago

Somebody posted an entire thread about this over on r/LinkedInLunatics. The whole thing reads like a weird White Savior smut story or something.

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u/Sufficient_Ask8927 10d ago

Pulp said it best: But still you'll never get it right 'Cause when you're laid in bed at night Watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

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u/Why_so_glum_chum 10d ago

Is that Randolph or Mortimer?

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u/this_guy_over_here_ 10d ago

Dude proved absolutely nothing new and wasted his own time and health. What a joke.

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u/Poetic-Noise 10d ago

So basically, he quit over poor people problems.

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u/KeyPollution3566 10d ago

You think poorness is your ally? You merely adopted the poorness. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn't have money until I became a man. By then...nope still poor.

Fucking tourist.

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u/Medium_Sized_Brow 10d ago

The best is how he frequently went to the doctor, and used his already huge online reach and Ivy league education to make only 6% of his goal. Then quit and declared it a success.

Man was trying to prove homelessness and poverty is a choice, failed, and still didn't learn a thing.

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u/being_honest_friend 10d ago

Stand up for the poor now that you know. Build housing. Open shelters. Food pantries. Fund dentist and dr vans to troll around and help who they can. Some folks need someone to help them organize their lives. They thrive after. Help people now.

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u/hoosiergamecock 10d ago

It would be a cool experiment if they put all their money in a trust account up front. Trustee legally cannot release the funds until x date, throw a bunch of conditions on the account such as no access for another x months if they reach out to family for assistance or something.

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u/Abbadon0666 10d ago

At least now he knows what it's like and will stop spreading the meritocratic unreslistic garbage people spill around (hopefully)

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u/Plagueofzombies 10d ago

From what i heard he actually did pretty well all things considered. However he seemed to completely gloss over the fact that the reason he was able to do so well (he did social media management for like Ā£40 am hour or some bollocks) was because he had a TONNE of pre networked contacts from before he was 'poor'.

So all he's really proved is that yes. Once you've made a lot of money, it's very easy to keep making lots of money

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u/Lachupacombo 10d ago

Skill issue, shoulda perished

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u/Low-Temperature-1664 10d ago

Pulp Fiction's Common People.

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u/LarryKingthe42th 10d ago

Gee its almost like being broke sucks and the system is setup so you can nolonger bootstraps yourself...if it was ever actually possible.

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u/Significant-Rush3389 10d ago

Oh the arrogance

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u/CertifiedMacadamia 10d ago

This fool became a millionaire using credit and thought he was smart

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u/NovWhiskey 10d ago

No, do it like everyone else.

Go to the hospital.

Get into crippling medical debt.

have the problem poorly fixed so it prevents you from working.

Get stuck in a low-wage job.

Work until you die.

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u/Itchy-Taint 10d ago

Didnā€™t his health issue turn out to be cancer?

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u/Own-Opinion-2494 10d ago

So he failed at being homeless

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u/Agyaggalamb 10d ago

To be frank even if he quit two months early, and 935k short of the million, that still means, he went from homeless to having 65k in 10 months. That's still impressive in my book if true.

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u/Alegatur 10d ago

Iirc his dad got cancer, not himself who have health concerns and he did manage to get a good amount of money just not 1M. Or this is an another person

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u/Valascrow 10d ago

'Social experiment'... You mean you took a gap year trying to be poor

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u/mikiswim 10d ago

Eat the rich

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u/Rishkoi 10d ago

Wait, you can "quit" being poor??

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u/Apoordm 10d ago

If you had a million dollars tucked away safely in a savings account you were never poor you were LARPING.

Like I worked at a LARP we all go camping to do the LARP but weā€™re not really without the comforts of our homes weā€™re choosing to forgo them for a period of time for fun.

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u/MaxGamer07 10d ago

wow, who woulda guessed, being poor is unhealthy

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u/dogstar__man 10d ago

Luckily real people experiencing poverty can just opt out of it when catastrophic health concerns emerge as well

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u/Berlin72720 10d ago

Even if he made it, this is still not a fair comparison. Most people have responsibilities that prevent them from being able to forfeit a minimum wage job. Put someone on minimum wage that they have to keep during 9 to 5, a car that is unsafe to drive that constantly needs repairs, an apartment with a horrible landlord, a dog that they love, a loved one that needs to be cared for, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and then let's see them succeed. The idea that having nothing is rock bottom is inaccurate. Unless you are placed under additional pressures most people face, then you are in a privileged position.

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u/TJamesV 10d ago

Saw this in another thread.

Dude doesn't even realize that he managed to prove the opposite of his point; that even with a safety net, good health insurance, a degree/skills/experience/contacts in his field, and miraculous opportunities handed to him, he still failed to meet his goal.

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u/wesleyD777 10d ago

He was also able to leverage his education and experience to land, as he put it a 'marketing gig' which brought him in $1,500 a month to offset his living costs. He then used years of experience to launch a coffee brand practically single handedly and got his income up to 60K+ a year before stopping due to health reasons. He is also obviously of above average intelligence and has good social skills, lots of confidence and some sales / public speaking experience.

The video implies that anyone can do what he did. Its a particularly North American fable that poor people deserve to be poor as they have no hustle or work ethic. Yes, if everyone had his skill set, his experience, his personality and confidence they could do it.

And of course he is a White Guy, so people with conscious or unconscious bias are more likely to deal with him than someone who doesn't look like he does.

...but its a lesson to all of us.

I used to work with a guy from Montreal. When I first met him years ago he was in his early 30's and already very wealthy. He was a math genius and had a personality so charismatic that he could have launched his own religion. He is now a Billionaire with his own Jet and I am saving up for a new Macbook. I simply can't do what he does as I do not grasp the strategic implications the decisions he makes, which are to him simple and obvious.... and I cant sell my products to people the way he does as he just makes people want to be in business with him.

...does that make me a lazy bum for not owning a Lear Jet?

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u/Hendrik_the_Third 10d ago

Not only is this premise pure bullshit, but it's also an draconic attempt at telling people who aren't rich, that it's their own fault that they're poor, which will then be exploited in the rich's political narratives.

These guys are eager to show that wealth is not privilege, but just hard work and that they're all self-made... just like Kardashian and Paris Hilton believe they're self-made (riiight). They either had starting wealth or connections that could give them a leg-up. This is so normal for them, that they don't realize that people exist who don't even have the means to get a proper education, despite of having the brains for it. Regardless, they all had a lot of help in some way, shape or form and obviously had a head start.

Schwarzenegger said it very well;
"My message: don't ever call me a self-made man. Once you realize that you are the product of a lot of help, you will acknowledge that you must help others.ā€

And helping others is exactly what these rich fecks refuse to do, helping themselves by setting themselves up as superior, however, is what we're seeing here instead.

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u/kokandevatten 10d ago

Million dollars was unrealistic, but he didnt fail that badly, still made 64 000 dollars in 10 months. Thats pretty impressive.

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u/KarmicComic12334 10d ago

Yes, with good education, connections, and by working himself into what would have been anearly grave he got 6.4% of his goal. If he hadn't had great health insurance it would all be gone, if he hadn't taken a break he might be gone too.

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u/ShinyArtist 10d ago

And you bet that he still thinks homeless and struggling people, who many do have health issues, to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, yet he gave up and went back to his nice life before his health deteriorated further and he would be unable to work.

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u/nogoodnamesarleft 10d ago

"Unsuccessfully"? According to him, it was a win and he totally would have made it if only he wasn't subsiting on cheap food and had health problems, something that the lower economic echelons never have to deal with

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u/wynnduffyisking 10d ago

What a fucking idiot. Also, the first thing this ā€œself-madeā€ man did in his little experiment was to accept help from a charitable stranger who let him crash in his RV. How self reliant of him.

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u/Grimm676 10d ago

He also went to multiple doctor visits while he was ā€œhomelessā€ so honestly even if the experiment worked it wasnā€™t really a 1 to 1. Homeless people do not have access to instant doctors to check on their health.

He also somehow ā€œmanagedā€ to find someone kind enough to let him live in their mobile home for 2 weeks. How many homeless people have this option? What a joke this guy is. Letā€™s see how he fares when his only option is a homeless shelter.

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u/SirDangly 10d ago

Dude couldn't even cosplay homeless

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u/feedmemetalnstarwars 10d ago

He didnā€™t even do the challenge properly as he had his connections and his friend allowed him to stay in an rv

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u/Matttthhhhhhhhhhh 10d ago

Reminds me of my brother who left a very lucrative career to become a primary school teacher. Two years later and after failing spectacularly, he went back to his previous job. Now he just claims that society was against him and that he would have been great at it, had he been allowed to do it. No lesson learned, no humility. Just a serious victim complex because things didn't go his way.

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u/HeroBrine0907 10d ago

Damn how much did he make? Obviously he must've gotten to a couple hundred thousand and gotten himself a mansion. After all, making money isn't hard, especially for intellectuals like him.

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u/Plumb789 10d ago edited 10d ago

I once read an article in a magazine where the five-year-old daughter of some huge celebrity (like Bionce-honestly I couldnā€™t tell you who it was) was asked about her ā€œfashion talentā€. Apparently, the girl loved colour and enjoyed the ā€œretro styling of the 80sā€. She already had her own successful fashion line and the new season of her collection was going to be all about that 80s ā€œenergyā€. She really ā€œenjoys picking out the styles and colours that express her personalityā€. When she was grown up she might well become a major fashion designer. She already had a huge online following.

I never normally read pieces like that, but, having gone through art college and seen so many incredibly talented budding designers end up working in Burger King, I couldnā€™t help but read it. I knew one woman who was AMAZINGLY talented, hard-working, prepared to make sacrifices, ambitious, driven, creative and original. What she wasnā€™t was well-off or connected to anyone. She worked like stink for decades. The nearest she ever came to with the sharp end of fashion design was when she spent various periods working for free-usually running around after the top ā€œtalentā€, taking taxis around London (at her own expense, even though she was on the breadline) to drop off or collect samples.

What does she do now? Something to do with stock control in an online fashion company.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

It would be difficult to make that kind of money ethically within that time period. šŸ§

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u/mookie_bombs 10d ago

Yall need to hear or read his story before judging him. Seeing comments like this was selfish and he should have just helped people?? Get over yourselves and stop being so ignorant.

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u/nojiownsyoi 10d ago

I think he only made it to like 60K or something šŸ¤£

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u/Jooriick 10d ago

Didnā€™t this happen time ago? I remember seeing a YouTube video about it a few years ago, but now itā€™s all over Reddit.

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u/mariejewell 10d ago

Must be nice being able to just 'quit' being broke lol

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u/Much-Bet9171 10d ago

This was honestly such a laughable 'experiment.' Lil nepobro didn't even fucking try, right off the bat he starts clearly cheating on his own challenge.

The fact that even with all of the lengths he went to in order to make the grind perfectly easy and he still failed is a testament to how wrong his mentality is.

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u/Chrollo-beats-Hisoka 10d ago

Absolute cockring

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u/Disrespectful_Cup 10d ago

Also, note, he never lost the ability to have health insurance... which is all this needed to be a zero relation topic

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u/fennecfoxxx123 10d ago

To be fair this picture is misleading.

Black ended the challenge having completed 10 months, with just 60 days left to run. He had managed to make a grand total of $64,000.Ā 

And he had rented a place to live and an office to work.

Not that it proves anything, but don't mislead people into thinking he lived on the bench for the entire experiment.

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u/didithedragon 10d ago

Homeless people canā€™t just quit being homeless and go to the doctor. What we should take from this is that he would have died.

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u/BobbyP27 10d ago

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge

She studied sculpture at St Martin's College

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u/Exciting-Source-3449 10d ago

What a maroon. Being poor is not an experiment its a reality dumbass, For all the YouTube heroes take note, this could be you someday real soon.

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u/Wild-Zebra-3736 10d ago

This could have been a great experiment if the focus was on how difficult it is to be homeless. To prove how futile and impossible it is to become a millionaire as a homeless person.

Instead he focused on his narcissistic need to prove to the world how entrepreneurial he is, and then ā€œgave upā€ when it got too much.

A slight change of framing and he could have used this as a platform to help the homeless, rather than use them as a backdrop for his ego.

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u/Interesting_Reply584 10d ago

I know people like to talk shit about rich people, but the truth is, if you actually read about him, he managed to make over 65k from nothing, while dealing with the passing of his father and cancer.

Nowhere near what he set out to, but still impressive.

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u/efiisee99 10d ago

At least he can "quit" being poor šŸ™„

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u/No_Pangolin7946 10d ago

He made like 65k in 10 months and stopped because his dad got cancer (iirc). Its still a feat, he had a phone and an empty bank account to start with, which is more a lot of homeless people have but much less than most of us have.

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u/Beginning_Sea6458 10d ago

How do you quit being broke and homeless?

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u/Draviddavid 10d ago

Everyone in this thread has this guy's motive, goals and personality completely and utterly wrong. I actually watched the series, unlike literally everyone else here and unlike the writer of this article.

I encourage the haters to watch it or at least look at Mike's rebuttal to the morons who think they have this guy all figured out.

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u/Noobhammer9000 10d ago

Proof that money in the bank and braincells in the head are not directly correlated.

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u/boonya123 10d ago

Whenever my wife tells me about how well her friends are doing, how rich this person she knows is. First thing I ask how did they get that money? Always leads to wealthy parentsā€¦ very few people have the drive to start from nothing.

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u/offline4good 10d ago

Plot twist: there are no quits

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u/VirtuaSteve 10d ago

To be fair, real poor people never have health problems /s.

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u/bobpetersen55 10d ago

Damn, did he start balding while doing this? He has a widows peak in the second picture, but not in the first.

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u/Fantastic_Ad_5919 10d ago

Why the hate? He tried to see what it's like on the other side and shared it with the public. And proved himself that it's not a straightforward pass and that you'd still need a lot of luck. It's just a fun interesting experiment

He earned his money, ofc he has a right to abandon his experiment if he doesn't like it or if it causes health problems

I guess reddit just hates people with money sometimes, no matter what they do

If I was in his place, I'd also like to do such an experiment, it's interesting to try yourself in other people's shoes

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u/Jumpy-Ad8679 10d ago

If I don't remember wrong the concerns were for HIS FATHER health rather than his own, and the health of a family member might be slightly more important to think about than a challenge for the internet, this is very misleading title.

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u/Jumpy-Ad8679 10d ago

I could also be confusing this guy with another...

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u/DoctimusLime 10d ago

Eat the rich ASAP obviously, not sure what we're waiting for, things have gotten a lot worse since the 2008 gfc, which was the great depression event of our generation and which we're still living through today... Eat the rich ASAP obviously...

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u/xXNighteaglexX 10d ago

Saw a cringey video on twitter about how he only got like $70k, quit, and rhe dude reviewing it was glorifying how in the end its not the money that matters. Hope this asshole realizes how stupid he looks thinking any homeless man can magically become rich

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u/Current_Finding_4066 10d ago

So, he has proved being born into wealth IS a huge advantage. Good.

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u/RevanInquisitor 10d ago

ah yes, suddenly the abysmal health conditions of the homeless population is all too real to said millionaire. truly doubt he'll do anything productive with this new knowledge, but hey, a guy can dreamĀ 

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u/TizioGrigio0 10d ago

He did manage to make like 80k tho starting from nothing no? Isnt that still a very good result?

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u/RandomInternetVoice 10d ago

Pretty sure Pulp had a song about this.

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u/Fraytrain999 10d ago

The headline bs aside, that dude ran into a whole bunch of "coincidences" the whole thing was a huge sham.

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u/SomeBiPerson 10d ago

you could call it a scientific study with N=1 that proves the Poverty trap

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u/bobsnervous 10d ago

I see this a lot at the moment. "I became fat so I can prove blah blah" or "I became a drug addict and got sober to prove that drug addicts are weak" the thing is though is that this is not how people ended up in that position, they didn't just try to get fat on a whim. If you want to really try this 'experiment' then you need to be put through hell to the point that you can't help but destroy yourself then try to get back out of it.

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u/Ninchakii 10d ago

Luck has a lot to do with it, doesnā€™t it?

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u/t_dizZe 10d ago

I remember watching it, and not a single day did he spend as "homeless", as ~5 hours into the challenge a random guy invited him to live at his place. Like that totally happens with homeless people....

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u/Armstrong7514 10d ago

I mean he got like 10 months in, props to that ig

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u/Doomscrolleuse 10d ago

Pulp's Common People playing on repeat...

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u/Eye_foran_Eye 10d ago

But he always knew he could pull the plug at anytime & go back to being a millionaire.

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u/B4S1L3US 10d ago

Just for the information before everybody starts bashing the guy. He developed stage 4 cancer with multiple metastases and continued even through that because he was determined to show how anyone can make it. Think if I remember correctly he made it to around 40k through dropshipping and stuff last time I checked.

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u/Head-Growth-523 10d ago

Stage four cancer eh, well I'm sure his money will make him feel better as he withers away. Zero sympathy for specimens like this.

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u/B4S1L3US 10d ago

No reason for sympathy just that Stage 4 cancer is in my opinion a valid reason to abandon something like this

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u/TheRealZeppy 10d ago

I want to live like common peopleā€¦

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u/RBD235 10d ago

Didn't he get cancer tho?

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u/d1psh1t_mcgee 10d ago

I watched part of his video and he was homeless for half a night before a Good Samaritan offered him his RV to stay in. He was ā€œhomelessā€ for a few hours. I didnā€™t watch the rest of it

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u/Traditional_City_383 10d ago

He quit because he knew that he was failing miserably. He was nowhere near his goal.

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