becomes homeless
has health problems
quits homelessness
BOY HOWDY AIN'T THAT SOMETHIN' 
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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???
arduous and stressful millionaire job???
Poor millionaire is humming It's a Hard-Knock Life to destress every day
This shit had me rolling
Poverty got hands
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.
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.
It was a "coffee for dog lovers" business. Just the dumbest mad-libbed business bullshit you could come up with. Self-parody.
They already have that though. It's just called "coffee"
I hate this "entrepreneur" bullshit.
I thought it was BetterHelp but for dogs.
And then failed?
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.
If you can just "quit" being poor, you weren't poor. 
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.
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
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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Why didn’t he go on the massive amounts of government assistance I’ve always been told by reactionaries is available for the homeless?
Pretty crazy how the first thing this dude decided to do was to get something for nothing lmfao
You were supposed to die.
Commit to the bit, fuckhead.
Dang, I'm sure he could have made it if not for his ailing health
He was at $999,999 but he had to make an ER trip and they took it all
Lol he only made it to 65k. Which I mean, not bad money but not even 1/10th of his goal.
I have never made $65,000 in a year
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.
As we all know, every single homeless person is at the peak of physical health and have no health problems whatsoever.
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.
This just pisses me off.
The homeless don't get to just quit being homeless. Fucking commit you coward.
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.
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.
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.
lol what an asshole
What a fuckin jackass
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.
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.
Too bad he lived, truly tragic.
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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Lol.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
now thats a reality show id love to watch
Bitch, gimme that coin and do it for real!
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.
I saw my brother watching this guy once. Glad he failed.
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