“Wait this shit sucks, nevermind.”

-Mike Black, probably

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Now try it again but give yourself amnesia so you don’t have any prior knowledge of skills or lessons learned from before.

    Give yourself a severe drug and/or alcohol addiction for several years so you develop chronic health problems and hardcore substance dependence.

    Experience enough traumatic events that you develop some severe form of mental illness, preferably multiple at the same time.

    Destroy all your contacts from your former life, don’t record anything or log anything because you can’t have any permanent support group. Surround yourself only with people as or more desperate than you.

    Make sure your social problems have caused you to rack up a significant number of criminal charges, bonus points for felonies that stay on your record for all to see if anybody even considers hiring you.

    Now you’re close to experiencing what many homeless folks’ lives are actually like. This guy’s “experiment” is asinine. Just another sigma grindset bootstrap husk social influencer who has no idea what it is actually like to have nothing.

    His conclusion is that people are homeless because why? They aren’t grinding hard enough? Because they aren’t putting in the hours? Because they just don’t really want it bad enough? Miss me with that bullshit.

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      3 months ago

      Honestly, I do like he did it though. Now people can go, “Even he, with all his experience, his contacts, his health couldn’t manage it. So why are people buying the idea that a regular person can?”

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      3 months ago

      Give yourself a severe drug and/or alcohol addiction for several years so you develop chronic health problems and hardcore substance dependence.

      Experience enough traumatic events that you develop some severe form of mental illness, preferably multiple at the same time.

      If you’re rich enough these don’t even count as problems, just personality traits.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, wealth and privilege lessen the risk factors significantly. Even if you get totally addicted and actually need help, if you’re rich, you (or your family) can afford to put you in luxury rehab clinics.

        That’s why you see so many celebrities in and out of rehab multiple times. They can afford to destroy their lives over and over because there is always a way back for them.

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      3 months ago

      Simply accept free furniture on Craigslist and sell it on Facebook, what is the difficulty? Everyone has a pickup truck or SUV they can use to tote furniture around and a house they can use to store it pending the sale. You can easily make a million in a year, I would have done so but I had to stop early because of reasons.