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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 95 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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 to ~~write~~ get someone to ghost write for poor people to learn from his experience... 🤬

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Been thinking about it again too, would Black be able to make his first $300 even if he had the mental and physical fatigue he had at 10 months of the experiment? Also even if he did, without his lucky break where he even generously got access to an RV to sleep in and a computer to work on (rather than having to constantly worry about shelter space as he has been), would he even be able to achieve anything close to what he did?

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

If he was disabled or not in peak shape and mental state when he started it would have been a even worse outcome.

Imagine if he was sick 50% of the time, and he could only work half that. He would be in poverty like almost every other disabled person.