Millionaire who made himself homeless and broke on purpose to prove he could make $1MILLION in 12 months for YouTube clicks QUITS his bizarre social experiment over health concerns
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...
I think it kind of illustrates that if you are a regular person without systemic problems who finds themselves unemployed and homeless due to shitty luck then if you hustle and bust your arse all is not lost. You can PROBABLY turn your situation around.
But blanket applying it to every homeless person is absolutely foolish.
You know, this would be good evidence to present that giving everyone access to the things Black got (an RV to stay in temporarily for free, a decent phone and plan and the rich person side of American health care), would allow people better mobility out of their situations.
Look what happened 10 months in though. Say hypothetically a poor person did all the same things Black did and kind of made it for themselves. They go in to see the doctor, they find out their dad has cancer and they have autoimmune issues. If they were to actually address their health situation at that point with only the funds they had amassed, they'd get fucked by the American Healthcare Debt Extraction system.
Not to mention all the other ways things go wrong, such as getting laid off. Without a million dollars to fallback on, many either can't take the same risks, and many others do but that causes them to fall back to square one.