“Wait this shit sucks, nevermind.”

-Mike Black, probably

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    he hustled 24/7 and managed to make the same amount of money as an entry level recent graduate dental hygienist, RN or factory machine operator (60k in 10 months)

    and we can assume from the meetings he got with big businesses that he was trading on his prior reputation rather than going incognito.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah. Instead of giving a bad-faith summary, the article could’ve dug into how he couldn’t even hit middle-class without leaning on networking. Because saying he failed and had to quit because of his health, then admitting it was his DAD’s cancer and that he managed to earn his way fully to middle class, just didn’t work well.

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      he hustled 24/7 and managed to make the same amount of money as an entry level recent graduate dental hygienist, RN or factory machine operator (60k in 10 months)

      While being given a free place to stay from a fan. What other benefits was he maintaining over typical homeless people?

      and we can assume from the meetings he got with big businesses that he was trading on his prior reputation rather than going incognito.

      Right. Probably where the vast majority of that money actually came from, and still nowhere near the $million that he claimed he could get.