Despite falling short of his financial goal, Black said his journey showcased the power of determination and the importance of health and family
So he learned absolutely nothing about the plight of countless millions of people. Got it.
Worse, he thinks he was just unlucky that he happened to get sick, and thinks his “success” proves he was right all along. Meanwhile, his “success” was entirely built on leeching off other people and abusing charity.
The sad part is that he couldn’t put two and two together. Health problem interrupting your job? It’s not like poor people ever have to deal with health problems, they’re just lazy, right? /s
He did prove one thing, and that is that rich people legitimately think anyone who has less money than they do is just lazy. Even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary and his own failure the article seems to imply that he still thinks that is the case lol guess he didn’t learn anything at all…
The only way you can hoard money like that is to convince yourself that poverty is a moral failing. Otherwise, your conscience can’t handle it.
Nobody thinks they’re the bad guy.
Fuck poverty porn and fuck people like this guy who think they can “try out” poverty like it’s a fucking suit before opting out at the point where most of us poors start out (with stress related health conditions, except ours are not only from birth, but generational, with all the implications of that, and we can’t just walk away and directly in to the office of the best doctors around like this fucker surely did).
What’s even worse is I guarantee he’s come out the other side thinking he actually learned something, convinced he has all the answers, and that his experience is important and “educational” enough to put in a “self help” book he’s going towriteget someone to ghost write for poor people to learn from his experience… 🤬Why can’t the millions of homeless people just QUIT being homeless like this guy did and live a normal life?
Why can’t the millions of homeless people just take a break from being homeless and pop in and out of the doctor’s office anytime they start feeling fatigued.
He failed, and he’s a young white guy with the experience of a millionaire trying to be “homeless” in a place that never experienced -20c temperatures.
Literally as easy as it could get for him. And he failed.
Go ahead and try it while being a young black man. Or a woman. Or disabled. Or with a mental illness. Or an addiction. Or a child.
He failed, and he’s a young white guy with the experience of a millionaire trying to be “homeless” in a place that never experienced -20c temperatures.
While being followed by a film crew, given a place to stay for free by a fan, a positive background check for his office space, and investors who knew who he was.
Even with cheat mode enabled, the guy still lost!
Wild that he was unable to prove that homeless people can just decide to earn $83,000/month.
I wonder how he made the photos and accessed Craigslist.
People refused to give him water and he was unable to find a place to stay the night.
Eventually, a man with an RV allowed him to stay for several nights in his van.
Black started off small and managed to make his first $300 by selling furniture online.
By the fifth day of the challenge he had made enough money to buy himself a computer.
Almost two weeks in, he was able to secure his own office space and after just over one month, Black finally had his own place to rent.
Three months into the challenge, Black’s entrepreneurial spirit appeared to shine through having set himself up as a social media manager, managing to land clients - while even coming up with his own brand of coffee.
While it’s not hard labor by any means, it is interesting.
Four months into the challenge, on day 138, Black learned that his father was officially diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and had just started chemo which led Black to question the entire project - but he continued.
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.
My personal health has declined to the point where I really need to start taking care of it. Throughout the entire project, we haven’t shared it with you, but I’ve been in and out of the doctor’s office.’
Black explained how he also suffered from two autoimmune diseases which caused ‘chronic fatigue’ and another that attacked his joints.
That’s the millionaire-funded healthcare system for ya.
He’s lying. 100%.
There is no way he did any of that without help from his existing network and connections, if he did it at all (again, I personally do not believe a single word of it).He did use existing network but the furniture was from the Craigslist free section and re-sold on fb marketplace. He arranged transport etc (unsure how, don’t remember)
of course he is lying. how do you sell furniture if you are homeless? what furniture do you have to sell? where is it stored? how do you transport it?
lots of questions that make this account dubious at best.
If you read the article you find that he didn’t actually sell furniture, he got people on Facebook marketplace to pay him money for the privilege of collecting free furniture from Craigslist. It’s a really shitty scheme
Must be nice to just decide it’s time to stop being poor.
That is, in fact, all they seem to think it takes.
If he could go back to being rich, he was never poor- nor homeless, but a clown trying to profit from his shit antics.
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 allPulp had it right in 1995
Moreover, despite faking the whole thing, he was still somehow too soft to hack it. He literally couldn’t handle pretend homelessness.
