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[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 158 points 8 months ago

becomes homeless

has health problems

quits homelessness

BOY HOWDY AIN'T THAT SOMETHIN' brace-cowboy

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 106 points 8 months ago

Why would he quit? Surely going back to his life as a millionaire would be so much harder right? I mean, they have to earn all that money right? Why wouldn't he stay homeless and continue resting until he was healthy again before returning to his arduous and stressful millionaire job???

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 64 points 8 months ago

arduous and stressful millionaire job???

Poor millionaire is humming It's a Hard-Knock Life to destress every day

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 129 points 8 months ago
[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 58 points 8 months ago

This shit had me rolling

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

Poverty got hands

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 115 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The only truth behind the conventional "wisdom" that a billionaire made penniless could become a millionaire again within a year is ENTIRELY DEPENDENT upon their social capital. If you're a famous billionaire, you'll have people willing to throw money at your nonsense investment opportunity based purely on your name and former status.

If you're some guy nobody's ever heard of with some daddy money and you somehow manage to lose it all, you're fucked. This guy will never admit he was wrong, he was simply failed due to regulation or something.

[-] Creakybulks@hexbear.net 89 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i saw a twitter thread on this and IT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. he used whatever social media pull he still had to create a startup for coffee sales or some shit.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

It was a "coffee for dog lovers" business. Just the dumbest mad-libbed business bullshit you could come up with. Self-parody.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 8 months ago

They already have that though. It's just called "coffee"

I hate this "entrepreneur" bullshit.

[-] CreamarySteamary@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

I thought it was BetterHelp but for dogs.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

And then failed?

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 8 months ago

And he wasn't even homeless because of it. He spent a night or two role-playing by sleeping in a park (do you think the police would move this guy on after he explained his 'predicament'?) and then one of his 'followers' gave him an RV to live in, which he later sold back to the donor lol.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 103 points 8 months ago

If you can just "quit" being poor, you weren't poor. how-compelling

[-] ta00000@hexbear.net 91 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He started out by crashing on someone's couch, and finding all the free shit he could on facebook marketplace and craigslist and reselling it. His very first step shows how making a million dollars like that is done, by stealing everything that isn't nailed down and extracting a profit for nothing. That's the biggest takeaway I'm getting here. I'm sure most of those people giving things away on craigslist and facebook were thinking they were giving it to someone who would directly use it, not a vampire.

That also goes to show how not everyone can climb out of poverty. Maybe one guy can but he just pulled the ladder up by removing those resources for other people who were actually in need. A business degree haver should be aware that just because one person can acquire something at a certain price and turn a profit on it doesn't mean that everyone can do that. That free item was available to exactly one person exactly one time.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

I only object to it because he's actually rich. If an actual homeless person could get off the streets this way, more power to them

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As long as they write smug articles about it saying that homeless people are lazy because they got out of it this way, therefore there's no excuse.

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[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago

You were supposed to die.

Commit to the bit, fuckhead.

[-] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

Dang, I'm sure he could have made it if not for his ailing health

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

He was at $999,999 but he had to make an ER trip and they took it all

[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

Lol he only made it to 65k. Which I mean, not bad money but not even 1/10th of his goal.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 18 points 8 months ago

I have never made $65,000 in a year

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

You need to go back in time and grow up amongst millionaires so you can peddle your coffee startup to them.

This is what poor people lack. Connections to other out of touch rich people.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

As we all know, every single homeless person is at the peak of physical health and have no health problems whatsoever.

[-] Ithorian@hexbear.net 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He didn't even experience real homelessness. The fear that comes from having no safety net at all, wondering how many times you're going to eat that week, being in chronic pain but having no way to address it, Only sleeping a few hours a night for days on end cause it's too damn cold an you keep getting chased off. Simply knowing that if it ever really get to much you can go back to comfort doesn't let you experience the true terror of knowing your only way out might be in box.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago

This just pisses me off.

The homeless don't get to just quit being homeless. Fucking commit you coward.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

The homeless don't get to just quit being homeless

The fact that he undertook this experiment entirely convinced he was going to succeed tells me he probably did in fact believe it could be done.

[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

This dude admitted his education, experience, and business connections were a massive advantage for him in this "challenge" and he still failed. I honestly wonder if he went to companies and told them "hey I'm an entrepreneur doing a social experiment to see if I can make it big while homeless". Yeah of fucking course they're gonna hire you. Fucker should have had to change his name and move to a city where he knew nobody and not be able to put anything on his resume.

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

should have had to change his name and move to a city where he knew nobody and not be able to put anything on his resume

But I mean, homeless people can't do that so this was the correct method (I kid, I kid)

But this right here is the benefit of being rich and/or having connections, you have a safety net in case of failure.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 38 points 8 months ago

lol what an asshole

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago

What a fuckin jackass

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

I guess the "social experiment" didn't yield the result he was expecting.

I'm sure that he, in the true spirit of scientific endeavour, will fundamentally change his views on the capitalist economic system and the hierarchies of wealth and poverty it creates.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

He's gonna write an insufferable LinkedIn-post and try to parlay it into a gig as a corporate motivational speaker. He is also going to learn fuck-all from this and instead double down on libertarianism.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

Too bad he lived, truly tragic.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

Rent a flat above a shop

Cut your hair and get a job

Smoke some f**s and play some pool

Pretend you never went to school

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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[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago
[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

Now this is going to sound like a hot take, but have people ever considered that the existing homeless population is itself a real life ongoing case study/experiment in this not being possible unless you're like especially lucky? Or the fact that the vast majority of youtubers do not make a million dollars even over several years despite now having several years of experience in youtubing?

It's not like homeless people are choosing to stay homeless because they're secretly practicing streetmaxxing or being on that hated-by-bougie-society grindset, they're legit unable to turn things around; this isn't a TV show where a homeless person makes the choice to give up drugs, then turns his life around and comes back to that lady who was always supportive of him dressed in a suit now that he's committed himself to turning his life around.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 44 points 8 months ago

You're missing the point.

These fuckers think they deserve to be rich because they're better than the poors inherently.

"Cream rises to the top" kinda bullshit

They see poor people as stupid or subhuman.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 8 months ago

Ah, the millionaire who went homeless as a marketing stunt to set up a coffee company and made $65k total even with all those connections and without having to pay for medical cover or fucking housing.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago
[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

i don't see how this happened unless this dude was so oblivious and egotistical he actually thought he could do it without staging the whole thing.

a savvy person with millionaire resources could stage a bullshit rags to riches story to credulous dumbasses no problem, probably fleece followers for donations while they're at it

[-] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

See, that's just it. He did stage it and he still failed. Some dude with a few million isn't going to have the connections or the clout to claw back up the ladder.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

how do you fuck that up all he needs is to give himself back his own money, then say it's from his entrepreneurial shit? surely he didn't actually get rid of his resources, or he wouldn't have any to 'cancel' the stunt with

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

now thats a reality show id love to watch

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 8 months ago

Gonna do a very Reddit thing and regurgitate something I don't know is true. I don't want to research this man. But someone else said, again unverified, that if you watch his video, at one point he takes a 300K cash injection into his café or whatever. And that's why he has 65K at the end, he didn't earn 65K from nothing, he lost 235K from his starting amount of 300K.

[-] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago
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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Bitch, gimme that coin and do it for real!

[-] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

I saw my brother watching this guy once. Glad he failed.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This experiment is impossible to do. You'll never be as desperate or enraged at the system when you know that you can go back to luxury at any second.

Maybe if you were rich because of a lottery or something or inheritance and somehow had no connections and ACTUALLY lost the money...

Even then you'll have had a wealthy person's education and medical care all your life up to that point.

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