He also was an entrepreneur before he became homeless. It’s not like he completely forgot his entire life before he started the “experiment”. He had both skills and a history. I’m not so sure it’d be as possible for someone who’s been homeless for a while, or ended up homeless because of a wealth of problems both financial and psychological.
He is a literal temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
Even that would probably be pretty easy to come back from, comparitively.
You’d have to intentionally tank your credit score, burn all your bridges, probably even take up an addiction or two, to get anywhere near the same kind of experience.
Bonus points if you impose a familial burden. Having a child, or at least a bag of sugar you have to stuff several hundred dollars into once a week in lieu of personal expenditures to avoid putting an actual child through that stress, so your concern isn’t strictly for yourself.
Which isn’t to say I think they’d even get past the initial year you suggest. This guy couldn’t get past a year without that stipulation.
He also was an entrepreneur before he became homeless. It’s not like he completely forgot his entire life before he started the “experiment”. He had both skills and a history. I’m not so sure it’d be as possible for someone who’s been homeless for a while, or ended up homeless because of a wealth of problems both financial and psychological.
He is a literal temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
I agree. A better experiment would be to live homeless for a full year first, and then spend the second year trying to make money.
Even that would probably be pretty easy to come back from, comparitively.
You’d have to intentionally tank your credit score, burn all your bridges, probably even take up an addiction or two, to get anywhere near the same kind of experience.
Bonus points if you impose a familial burden. Having a child, or at least a bag of sugar you have to stuff several hundred dollars into once a week in lieu of personal expenditures to avoid putting an actual child through that stress, so your concern isn’t strictly for yourself.
Which isn’t to say I think they’d even get past the initial year you suggest. This guy couldn’t get past a year without that stipulation.
There’s also the free place to sleep he got simply because someone knew him. Some fame always helps