So, he couldn't make it on the highest state minimum wage in this country? Interesting 🤔

well, starting from zero and assuming growth rate would only improve, in reality it's not $15/h. even if he just retained his last month revenue and sold at 4x ARR multiple, that's a half a mil business.

I don't think that is a bad result, *IF* he literally only had the clothes on his back. I would be interested in seeing how his second year would have gone. That being said, yes he could have gotten a job at McD's and worked as much overtime as they would let him and it would have given him more capital and possibly a better 11 month total. He's not quite there yet, but he does seem to be growing some.

People who work those minimum wage $15/hour job pays taxes. So the guy still made more than folks who works a minimum wage job. He essentially worked a salary of recent college graduates, which is still not good, especially for someone who says they can make a million dollars from nothing.

"Rent a flat above a shop Cut your hair and get a job Smoke some fags and play some pool Pretend you never went to school But still you'll never get it right 'Cause when you're laid in bed at night Watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah"

bingo

I still remember some asshole I met when I worked at a Laundromat. I had a guy brag about how he wasn't really homeless but was "living as the homeless for a year" so he could write a book.

There's a book (Nickel and Dimed) that was written in the late 90s to early 00s, where the author did something similar. The woman who wrote it decided to test if it was possible / reasonable to live as a single person on minimum wage. She did this in several cities, and did have a cheat credit card if needed. She managed to, mostly, but it was just about how hard it is to get to a city with basically nothing and get somewhere to live, work, and to eat. There wasn't some message about "you can make it through hard work", it was "it's damn hard work and most people can't manage it". It wasn't really a challenge for her persay, it was at least partly to see the struggles her parents / grandparents went through that she never had to do herself, as a way to improve as a writer.

Well said.

he didnt quit while he was 'homless' he figured his way out of being homeless, he quit when he had a place to stay, office and business. Maybe watch the series

Exactly. Because they can't afford health insurance.

​@@K7Reaver actually, it requires an address, but there are programs that make the healthcare more accessible by coming to them. bigger issue is pain management, which is most likely to have them dependent on opioids

i mean also the stress that worsened his autoimmune disorder is like. daily life for marginalized people. for their whole fuckin lives

well a homeless person in the US maybe

Medicaid is available to those who qualify. A social worker can help with this. Not saying it's easy, I know from experience

What current? The video has been around for a while.

@@Dynesgorandom why does that even matter? :’) 2 years is recent enough in terms of economics…if anything it was marginally easier 2 years ago. So are you here to defend the rich guy hating on poor people or just to nitpick my phrasing? Because if its the latter i’m sorry sir 🤓

​@@Dynesgorandom frame it as recent = below five or ten years if you prefer a decade as long enough. A 100yo person will certainly feel 2 years is as recent as a newborn baby.

​@@joester415 Damn I'm not/will ever be that "millionaire guy" you seem to hate on. This video might have left the impression that this happened in your now "recently", but this run happened around 2020 and that's not the easiest year to live in ever. Guy goes out to prove something then reality hits and admits defeat, and that's fine. Guess I should have said "sheit millionaire guy" so people gets their pitchfork off my behind huh.

@@Dynesgorandom bruh what are you yapping about? Out of your two comments, neither of them have any form of purpose?? Wdym 2020 was difficult…you right brother 2024 is WAY easier!

Nah bro it's not an *experiment* it's a *project* come onnnnnnUH.

Even the first answer he gave really shows how clueless and entitled he is

I don't think there is as big of a gotcha as people think there is. Yeah he quit at the end because his priorities changed, so what. His father was more important than this silly project. I get how it shows how fortunate he is, that he can change his priorities, but thats all that it shows. That doesn't invalidate that hard work can get you out of bad places. Bad luck can still happen and if you try again after you get knocked down you will eventually have a long enough streak where you can make it. The harder you work the luckier you get, as the saying goes.

@@Jack-gl2xw Gotcha? His hard word got supported because of his surroundings, credit ratings and connections. And he had the gall to say (paraphrase) poor people quit because of their mindset. He quit because of bad luck happened to his father. No poor people have exit strategy by quit their poor situation and then treating their family or themselves. Poor people still have to work themselves really hard to pay their healthcare. I don't mind if rich people want to have a project, but to conclude that poor people are poor because of their mindset is f***king mental

​@@Jack-gl2xwSee this right here is why a person like me would verbally chew you up for being so out of touch and question how intelligent you would have be to miss the point by the monumental mark that you just have. NORMAL PEOPLE CANT QUIT BEING HOMELESS DUE TO HEALTH ISSUES! MY WIFE WAS SICK AND DIED WHEN WE ENDED UP HOMELESS! HIM AND HIS DAD WOULD BOTH DIE IN MOST OTHER PEOPLES SHOES! GET IT? NOT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.

mental health issues maybe

>No mental issues Well....

​@robinvik1 being an out of touch asshole isn't a mental illness.

And apparently "nothing" includes owning a smatphone with a data plan.

You're toxic and unlikeable.

Is it Cognitive Dissonance or malicious lying? You shouldn't assume people are evil when it could equally just be stupidity, but that's hard to sit there and say how you had to stop because health problems but it's just a state of mind???

Well, that's his whole grift, and the grift of the majority of rich people and conservatives, isn't it? If they acknowledge that our system is fundamentally flawed and people can be screwed by circumstances outside of their control, then it would be morally abhorrent to continue advocating for this system and claiming that people just play victim and need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

@@toolittletoolate He said in the video, when Coffee brought it up, that he doesn't like being called a "victim." He refuses to admit that he was a victim of his circumstances because society has made "being a victim" as some kind of weakness, like it's an excuse used by cowards to avoid accountability. I agree to some extent with his takeaway in his quitting video, in that you shouldn't let those circumstances keep you down, but I don't think it's a bad thing to admit that you experienced setbacks because of things that were out of your control, either. Sometimes shit happens, you're punched in the gut by life and that makes you a victim. You didn't instigate this, you didn't ask for it, it just happened and now you need to re-evaluate your next steps. That's not a weakness, if anything I think it takes a level head to admit that you just got fucked over and need to course-correct.

Usually Coffee asks great questions but I was extremely unsatisfied that he didn't press on this one. There was no taking anything out of context, it was his own fucking words!

​@@mewberthildimew9037 so why did he let his health stop him

He didn't throw away his millions though. Pretty sure he kept them safe somewhere should shit hit the fan.

He didn't throw away a single million 😂😂😂 he kept that in the bank and probably had his mo they and quarterly stocks still chugging away, that's how he could "quit" so fast and resume his regular life lol

So you have a problem because it's "hard" to make a million? No one is entitled to $1 million. He's not out of touch. If a homeless person was determined to change their life and made even $40k in one year then they've moved upwards through hard work. If it takes them two or even five years then so be it. It can still be done.

​@@TheGoldenCapstonereally? Have you got a course you can sell me which proves what you say.

did we watch the same video? he literally said that he loved that he was wrong at the end but he still made money and earlier he said that its okay to fail and he fails all the time but you just need to keep trying

That's not what he said at all.

@rars0n Im paraphrasing, but its what he was insinuating. Tbf though looking at your comments on other videos if someone says grass is green youll tell them its blue, so no point in me even responding.

@@jackb5640 Nah, you feel the need to box this guy into being worse than he is. I mean, to be clear, he isnt great. He clearly has this one hurdle he cannot overcome, where he cannot admit the world isn't fair, not emotionally at least. He is constantly trying to search for upside in his comments - 'at least you can see what I did, warts and all' etc, but that final leap to 'this isn't good enough' is the leap he will never make. That doesn't mean he is saying everyone who fails is weak minded. It is saying he doesn't like the framing of victimhood. He obviously *hates* it, he is practically squirming when he tries to discuss that stuff. None of this makes him insulting people though, its just a bit of toxic optimism.

​​​@@kevinpiala6258Its insulting because he thinks and acts as if its wrong when *its not wrong* Toxic optimism is an insult to people who actually work hard and struggle. It makes people think when they fail, they have a personal moral problem

​@@kevinpiala6258But I think it's because it's very clear that his message is not coming from a genuine place. I would argue he barely tried at all. He had a place to sleep, lots of help, millions to fall back on, and could just leave whenever he wanted to. He says his project got detailed and his dad got sick. Well that happens to lots of people and they don't get the option to just leave like he did. I think that is why it's invoked such intense reactions and I won't lie myself included I think this guy is a piece of shit for this.

Especially since he admitted the stress is what triggered his autoimmune symptoms. Yea, mate. Like the stress real people would have to deal with knowing they DIDN'T have an option to just quit and go back to a rich life. He's so close to getting it, then just shakes his head and doubles down.

Not only can they get sick, most are sick before they become homeless. It’s often a reason they become homeless. Also loads of mental health issues that only get worse as time goes on being homeless, and then they get addicted to drugs and it becomes almost impossible to ever get off the streets at that point.

you let him hit it raw you didn’t have second thoughts now you a single mom now you single mom you said “imma have his kids, don’t care if he’s here or not” now you a single mom now you a single mom

Your comments are really considerate I became disabled because of untreated childhood health problems and trauma. I was born was skeletal abnormalities due to my mother drinking while pregnant. Then I was put into foster care. The physical and mental scars of my childhood weren’t addressed until I sought treatment as an adult. Sadly that was too late. I don’t want a million dollars. I want thoughtfulness and compassion. Thank you. Kind perspectives help me cope on bad days. Peace to you.

Yes, and Coffee tried to give him an alley-oop to empathize with folks who are living in similar circumstances without the ability to immediately access resources, and his only message is "I sacrificed a lot of resources to do this" 🤦‍♂️

Well said. I've been homeless, I've been addicted. I'm anxious when I wake up and when I go to bed and every second between, going to work for less than I'm worth is a challenge every day, hell just leaving my room is a challenge. I'm responsible for my life, for sure, it's not anyone else's responsibility to make me successful, it's just so out of touch for him to ignore the MASSIVE disparagement of incomes in the world we live in. Even if I had perfect mental health I will still never make a million dollars unless I get lucky, and I have been very blessed despite that. There are so many people who are worse off than I am now. I just hate the "work harder to make more money" mentality because it's just a carrot on a stick to entice the working class to throw their lives away making rich people richer.

Not to mention the privilege of being a cishet white dude with the social skills of a wealthy privileged upbringing. The only thin Mike Black proved is that, once again, even an idiot can get lucky in business, and will always assume that being born on third-base meant he hit a triple.

@@OldManJ3nkins Working harder to get richer is just false or a vast over simplification at best. Work harder AND smarter. Dont just work hard at a low skill dead end job. You will never taste wealth. Work hard towards improving your skills and developing yourself in a field which actually earns money. Whether thats taking night classes, learning a trade and slowly becoming a business owner, or learning how to do your job to the point where you're irreplaceable theres always a way. Deep down everybody knows how to actually make money. They just opt to not put the mental and physical work in and choose the comfort of doing the same thing everyday instead.

@@bigoofinthechat5496 did you even watch the same video as everyone else? i think you missed the entire point that rich people are there because they're smarter or harder workers. you'd watch starship troopers and think the humans were the good guys

@@ippanpedrozo1162 What you said didn't make any sense. You just said "rich people are there because they're harder and smarter workers. Which is partially true of course, but not what I think you meant to say. The truth is most homeless people struggle with mental health and addiction which are the true culprits of their situation and not just a lack of effort.

exactly ... he doesnt know the feelign of pure dread when you dont know if youre gonna be homeless or not next month .. he doesnt know the feeling of pure hope- and helplessnes when a bill for 100+€ rolls in and you dont even know how to start paying it .... or the dread of an homeless person that doesnt know if you will survive till next week or not ... He is just full of shit

Even just being healthy enough to live outside and not being subjected to underlying mental health issues is already a big leg up on most homeless people.

as I like to say being rich is a superpower which it's ability is to fail over & over again without consequence something us peasants don't get the luxury of

Exactly.

He definitely knows but he can’t admit it

It's impressive how out of touch he is! Somehow I really expected him to respond differently (considering he had like, what, 2 years, to reflect on the whole thing). Foolish me XD

lmaoo true

Cooked his ass

Y’all folks weird as hell. $32000 is a considerable profit margin for someone who is (real or self imposed) homeless. Sure he quit. That’s his privilege. He had to take care of himself and father. If he would have continued he likely would of been more well off than most other homeless people at that rate so give him some credit

​@@DUCKYhazC00KIE Dude wasn't even homeless he had shelter from night one, he had a working bathroom electricity and a safe place to sleep. This guy was larping on easy mode as a homeless person and failed every single goal he set for himself.

@@benjaminshelton978 I missed that detail I reckon. If that’s the case than dude is a clout clown

Its also not something you can simulate

Exactly, rich people could never understand the mindset of a homeless person as long as they know they have that fallback.

Also another thing is that even if he used no degree/cv he still had any skill that most homeless people just don't have and never had the chance of getting

The desperation actually makes it easier to get out of homelessness because its sink or swim so you actually have incentive to get out of it. The truth is most homeless people are in that position due to addictions and poor mental health. Not the fact that its impossible to get out of homelessness.

@@AceBattleStorm The fallback literally makes getting out of homelessness harder not easier. Its called being enabled. For all the valid criticisms of this experiment that is most certainly not one of them.

He succeeded. Starting a business to make 32k is 100x harder than just making 32k at McDonald’s, which you can do in just 1 day. Your problems show that you lack creativity. “I couldn’t find a place to shower”: find a lake. That’s what I did. You only need to shower for the interview. Then you can shower in the work bathroom. “I didn’t have a phone” government sponsored phones exist “I didn’t have a way to charge my phone” find the back of any big store like Walmart, target, Best Buy. They have power outlets there. That’s what i did. You can also go to any university and find any power outlet there, I also did that a few times.

@xPussySlayerx69420 Really dude? A lake? In the middle of New Orleans??? LOL Yeah, government phones exist, but you need an ID and either Medicaid or EBT to qualify. My ID was stolen my first night at the homeless shelter, and I didn’t have Medicaid or EBT at the time. Duplicate IDs in Louisiana cost almost $30 and duplicate drivers license costs even more. And you need an ID to qualify for Medicaid and EBT. YOU may qualify for a job at a fast food joint, but I was told that I was overqualified with my degrees. They may have just said that because of everything else. You can't find a job these days without direct deposit. You obviously had a bank account when you were homeless. It sounds to me like you didn't hit rock bottom. It sounds like homelessness was a game to you. If people pitted you and helped you, then get out of my comment with your fake BS!!!

Exactly. Exactly this. Start from zero. Try to buy a phone without a credit card or fixed address. If you're lucky you can get a cheap burner to SMS with, which is SO different than a smartphone with a 70/mo data plan This guy is so disingenuous and clueless - it's just pure hubris

How did you become homeless in the first place if you dont mind me asking

@@youngsunan885 It’s a long story, but my wife began dropping everything near the end of 2014. She blamed carpal tunnel. I took her to the hospital. The MRI showed 7 lesions - brain cancer. The prognosis was 4 to 6 months. Lisa made it only 5 months. I was by her bedside every minute of every day trying to make every moment count. When she died, part of me died. I sank into depression. I didn't and couldn't work for the 5 months by her bedside, and for almost 7 months after - I didn't work for almost a whole year. I was an emotional wreck. Although we were seriously considering life insurance, we didn't think we'd die in our mid-40s, and didn't have it at the time. I didn't have enough money to catch up on all of my bills after trying to take care of all of the medical bills, hospice bills, funeral home bills and everything else. I sold our vehicles, furnishings, tools, and pretty much everything I had to try to save at least my home, but couldn't do it. It's a very long story... But that's the basics... Oh... I went to stay with a friend, and I could see my presence putting a strain on his relationship with his wife, so I left. I went to a bachelor friend's house, and I could see my presence putting a financial strain on him. I refuse to cause pain or financial injury to anyone - especially if they are injured while trying to help me. I'd rather be on the streets than to cause problems to those I love. I hope this explains enough. I don't mind being open. All you need to do is ask - just like you did! 😉 I just have such a long story and don't know how to shorten it. Lol Any other questions, please feel free to ask! Thanks! PS - I sent my entire story with photo and documented proof to MrBlackPasta. Hopefully he'll do something... if anything, to help others see their own strengths... Have a great day!

Yeah, it was kinda disappointing. He went on a ramble where he essentially said nothing. Just a bunch of weasel words.

I was a bit disappointed he wasn’t called out for clearly evading the actual question tbh

the ol ramble on for so long about barely related topics till the other side is too bored to keep listening.

Right? I feel so silly, I should've just shifted my mindset & that would have cured my unexpected illness! Duh

If they could they wouldn’t wait 10 months to do it, that’s for sure. Seems like you’re taking the wrong thing away from this, must be a glad half empty type of guy.

@@Jreaddy yikes

The bubble they live in must be so nice.

Yes, But in seriousness, everyday you are exposed to the elements the more seriously your health is affected. And how it affects you mentally.. I shudder.. 😖

For real. This guy is such a clown.

very true

Yes. That is just one video. There are so many examples in our daily lives like this and the underprivileged suffer and suffer in a vicious cycle, there is no getting out of it. The very nature of reality in and of itself is something most would describe as 'evil' or 'disgusting.' From what I understand, where we are born and what family we belong to, as in rich or poor pretty much determines our quality of existence here on this planet. Nature has no emotion. Nature feels no empathy. It has no conscience, right and wrong do not make sense to nature of reality. It prefers the survival of the fittest as always, and it will continue to let the fittest survive.

They should just change there mindset. Like...knowing you can always fallback on your wealth when you get sick and have friends who get help you buy a house.

Would've made more sense to give a homeless person a significant amount of money and document their progress as they try to improve their situation. It's still callous but at least he'd be doing some good.

being rich and successful is correlated with belief that rich people in general "deserved it and got it purely through hard work", because they never had to work hard and lose everything anyway. And psychologically it's easier to believe it's entirely fair that income inequality favors you.

He was trying to leverage his existing knowledge of business that he has from years of experience. If he was being fair, he should also not be able to use that.

@@eznosnopes5276 Well, it would be hard to "forget" things he knew, but I think he basically overestimated his own ability to start from zero and obtain anything. He got a survivor's bias wakeup call.

@@todd.cannonI think people forget how much success is possible due to luck or things outside of their control. Even if we look at things that take high skill and luck (genetics) like sports you need even more luck to be drafted into competitive teams. Tons of talent wasted on bad teams etc.

@@ThePoorKids Yes. That's what I tell people over and over. The genetic lottery is NOT talked about enough. Then ON TOP of that, there's a tremendous of luck in terms of stuff that happens in and around a person's environment, that contributes to a person's success.

He can’t forget what he knows but he should choose a field that is outside of his speciality.

That's a really good point.

"The safety net" actually makes getting out of poverty harder. Its psychological. Thats why many success stories begin with the individual not allowing themselves to have a plan B. Desperation creates success if honed correctly. Not the other way around. If you can live in mom's house without working for the rest of your life and you're content then you're gonna stay stuck in the same place forever. If you're told you're gonna get kicked out in 6 months then suddenly theres incentive to move on in life. For all the criticisms of this project; having a "safety net" certainly shouldn't be one of them.

@bigoofinthechat5496 Jeez. You really like simping for rich people. People who have a safety net are not even in poverty so what on earth are you talking about getting out of poverty? You can't get out of something you aren't even in in the first place. That's like someone with millions of dollars sitting in his bank account calling himself poor because he decided not to touch the money for fun.

@bigoofinthechat5496 The person who told you this was lying.

I was a hobo for 4 years and the first batch of hobos I tend to see at this one park all ended up dead within 3 years, one of them found decaying in a state park on what was suspected to be drug overdose. Even the ones that started out somewhat sane eventually ended up either being insane or extremely deluded.

Another good one is "Born on third base and think they hit a triple."

While he is trying to convince us, and himself, that we were all born 0-0

Lmao classic

Your story had more to learn than this bs experiment. And you ACTUALLY learned gratitude through your experience. I know that was tough. I’m from Chicago myself. The winters suck ass.

@@ceelothatmane9421for real Chicago winters are tough. Not pleasant if you’re homeless 😭

I hope you’re doing much much better now.

@@brooklette87 thank you ya this was roughly 20 years ago but everyday im still greatful for my home bed utilities food literally everything lol bought house have kids just got a rescue cat doing good and appreciate it all knowing too many have nothing and I got lucky to be given the chance to work up from nothing

​@@nmgg6928You took in a homeless cat, so sweet 😢. You gave it a chance in life like someone had given it to you a all those years ago.

Thank you for sharing your experience of what he could bail out of. It is the reality that hustle bros need to hear. You win surviving homeless and loss, etc. He had a whole structure, and safety nets, and a choice to end, and knew it was too hard for him. But hey, he didn't have a victim mentality, so could have achieved his million if life circumstances didn't get in the way! 🙄

Didn't happen brah.

Facts. He pretending to be a brokie for likes on the internet. V sad. V sad indeed.​@lolnowayz

I’m so sorry for your loss! This is exactly what I was thinking as well! I don’t blame him for quitting considering everything he was going through but he had that option! I’d be very curious to see how “successful” would he have been at the end of the year had he continued despite everything he was going through. I’m sure that $65k he made would have all evaporated in a couple of months had he continued.

@@MissBelovedBunny don't be sorry. He was being a liar. Why feed into his non sense

Then he’d have to admit he’s not some amazing business guru that deserves to be rich

​@@chelscarabut that conclusion wouldn't be supported by the fact that he got sick and had to quit. He can be the best businessman in the world and still not able to succeed if you accept the hypothesis that the physical and mental effects of homelessness make it impossible to succeed with anything other than amazing luck.

@@Ellie-rx3jt It's not luck what they need. They need support. Homeless people will not get themselves out of the hell society put them in. We all require our most basic needs fulfilled if we will have any luck at succeeding.

As someone who has been homeless I didn't get to quit when I got sick. When I got kidney stones. When I had an asthma attack.

Perfect summary of this story

@@dezmodiumcool

And then victimizing himself over two influencers “twisting” the story while denying people’s real issue with the experiment and claiming it was all about the headline.

He spent 300k during this experiment too 🤣

So weird, indeed. 2 years has past and the topic is off the table. And why do the bots bring this up anyway. It's not like actual people find this and then share and make it go viral

tiktok in a nutshell. i cant stand it there. the cycle loops damn near every month or so, but everyone has already forgotten. can't even remember the video they just watched.

Sign me the fuck up!

@pinkpink8896: You would definitely be surprised by how many people waste millions of dollars within a handful of weeks or months when winning the lottery, ending up with nothing. It happens all the time. No need for an experiment.

To be fair being a millionaire is actually kind of low ball now. Being a millionaire in Australia basically just means you own a house these days

There was actually a small "documentary" in german tv (not really a serious documentary, more like trash tv but with an interesting setting). A rich family and a poor family swapped their life for like a week or so and both had to live on the usual weekly budget of the other family. Basically, each episode was the rich people struggling to find out how to manage the small amount for the week while the poorer families just lived life for a week. They did not overspend or something, they just ate properly, bought some clothes or went to some entertainment with their children that they never could afford before (if there were some involved).

I would transfer the million dollars from my playacting millionaire bank account to my actual non-millionaire bank account and after that, I'll quit. That's the first thing I'll do and the most millionaire-ish thing I can think of doing.

Hard work can be a factor (unless you born into it), but people overstate its usefulness. So long if you are not a total bum, your connections and luck will be enough

@@BIGTHANKSHEESH if working hard meant success my gardener should be my neighbor because I'm sure he works way harder than me unfortunately hard work means nothing just working is enough and being in the right place and having connections I know plenty of low IQ millionaires that I'm around all the time and if it wasn't for knowing the right people they'd be lucky getting a job at Walmart

@@ISOCZAR preach

To say it has NOTHING to do with hardwork is not true, Im not saying that life has nothing to so with luck but working towards something and not constantly thinking of yourself as a victim is more likely to get u somewhere than self pitying

@@Oga.Impractical correct but most of the homeless are BORN into that situation. They’ve got no help and just using that mindset only works on the few, not the many

You can give sympathy, but that partly enables it when it leads to providing material support. At the end of the day, one can sympathize as much as they want to but that doesn't alter the reality that the only one responsible for not being homeless, is the homeless person. It's not addiction, or drugs, or shady financial people. It's solid individual life choices. Homelessness is a detriment to society as a whole. But it's not like a disease you catch, or a form of cancer that's genetic. It's a series of poor choices and lack of personal responsibility. It's not your responsibility or mine to fix it, either.

​@@TheeGlocktopus Most people (according to a study) couldn't cover a sudden $400 expense which means most people are about $400 from financial collapse (and potentially homelessness), I think society is more interdependent than you make it out to be. You can't expect people to basically be clairvoyant in order to not have bad things happen. If some guy going to his daughter's wedding is hit by a drunk driver and loses everything to medical bills, are you really going to think he should have seen that coming? Accidents happen. We have limited resources, so we can only prepare for so much. I think your argument might be more understandable if we had ubi, and universal healthcare. Then we might wonder where this person was spending their money so as not to be able to afford a roof. And no, it isn't our job individually to fix homelessness, but it is our job to elect officials who will. It is our job to advocate for affordable housing and effective homelessness prevention policies (there are some countries that have virtually 0 homeless people and not due to inhumane activity). It is our job to challenge our leaders and politicians to be more compassionate and to be willing to challenge and change the systems of our society that aren't working. We need to work together to identify and address the most common initial causes of homelessness and stop just trying to criminalize being poor.

@@cymtastique We don't need to work together. I've identified the crisis already. Lack of personal responsibility. All the rhetoric about what might be the cause is a waste of time when it comes to actually solving the issue. All you're doing is circlejerking around the issue to make yourself feel better personally. It's not a series of unfortunate events that is out of ones control that causes homelessness. Could this happen? Maybe. But it isn't the most common scenario. That also only explains how one ends up homeless, not what keeps them homeless. No one is arguing that it's easier to get out of that situation with capital, but the mindset of perpetual innocent victimhood keeps them homeless and I refuse to participate in it. It sure sucks they are homeless and I don't want anyone to be in that position, but I am fresh out of spare responsibility to lend as I am using it all to keep myself from being homeless. If everyone thought this way, we wouldn't have a homeless problem. 20, 30 and 40 years ago, homelessness wasn't a pandemic, but yet all the same problems you wax on about here all existed then. What changed? People. That's what changed. If everyone stopped talking about homelessness like it was something totally out of ones control, that would be a good start. But talking about it like it's someone who caught the flu, that's even worse. 99 out 100 homeless people you give $1000 to will still be homeless, and spend $0 of those dollars to get themselves out of that situation.

⁠​⁠@@cymtastiquepublic transit is needed so everyone save more money and spend less.

@@TheeGlocktopusthat’s a lot of words to say you don’t understand the homeless issue. either that or you just lack empathy

What about "if you're poor just work harder" does that still hold up? Always loved that ole chestnut.

Being homeless is just a state of mind. Anyone can be a millionare with the power of manifestation.

@@Jack_Slate I'm King of the World. It's all about the mind set.

It more reminded me of that girl with rich parents who "went to the street to pretend to be homeless for 3 hours" and it made her think that "its a 100% choice to be a homeless"

“Just get money!” 👍

He didn't deflect. He just admitted the experiment self-destructed due to personal life issues. What more could he say?

@@PHeMoX everyone has personal life issues so using that as the reason for it not working out just means it's not pratical... instead of saying "i would have done it other wise". Yes it's though when a family member gets terribly sick, but us non-millionaires can't just say "okay im having some personal life issues let me just fall back into my old money to give me some stability through this tough time"

The amount of deflection was insane

@@PHeMoXthat those issues were unlucky, there.

​@@PHeMoX He totally deflected, most notably by the end boasting about how much money he made in response to coffee reinforcing the fact that he proved the exact opposite of what he set out to prove. Not sure if that was an attempt to save face or just a display of his complete lack of self-reflection.

Rich people's entire self-image is based on the idea that they earned everything they have in life. If they admit that luck played a role, their entire self-image is destroyed, causing them to fall into a deep depression. The human ego will do all kinds of mental gymnastics to protect itself.

@@ianflanders5096 True.

Spot on.

And yet he preaches that there are no excuses to achieving what you want to achieve 😂

Didn't you listen, he learned to not be a victim. So he just stopped being poor. That's the thing. If you're poor, just stop!😂😂

@williamnicolas122 exactly. I saw a homeless person just now and shouted at them 'Come on dude just stop being poor!'. He replied 'Sorry man, I'll stop messing around now and go get my 401k'. And all was well. Easy.

@@adammills9063 I bet that felt good. Problem solver of the year

But he made $65,000! That's so cool! The end of this video was kind of sickening, coffeezilla just wants him to address the one concern he agrees with directly and the guy completely deflects to try to spin it into a positive thing where "you can make $65,000 coming from nothing, I did it, it's all on camera!" Except that's a lie, his life was not on camera 24/7, so not only is he not addressing the criticism but he's being INFURIATINGLY blase about it.

Yeah, he's delusional.

He keeps talking like he understands and then just can’t cope and does a 180. Like, he talks about how he was grateful that people got to see that setbacks happen and life challenges happen… and then says the nonsense of “people got to see what happens when life gets served.” Sir… going back to being a cushy millionaire is not what happens when “life gets served”. Things get *worse* and *harder*. We didn’t have to see it, we fucking live it. He is truly out of touch.

It just feels pathetic that he can't admit what happened. I think he's one of the people who cannot cope with the idea that anything could possibly be out of his control, so he works so hard to spin EVERYTHING. In the context of his experiment he not only failed to make a million dollars, he failed to "survive". He was headed straight towards what for someone without a safety net would be full disability and inability to work when he quit. For people without the lifeline, that makes irrecoverable debt or death SO likely. He's just absolutely REFUSING to frame it that way. I think this interview from Coffee is great in the way he's trying to get the guy to understand what actually happened... But ohhh my word, it's made me so frustrated to listen to.

His diamond-encrusted boot straps

That whole saying is just hilarious anyway. People who believe that's a valid saying are the problem. You literally can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps. It's literally impossible. It's so damaging when used against people in poverty. People being told to do the impossible.

Homeless people don't have medical expenses. If they do need medical attention they just go to the ER where they're legally forced to be cared for. Don't add in unrealistic factors. Mental health and addiction are truly the biggest hurdles for homeless people and thats the truth.

Tax payer health car for the win.

​@@bigoofinthechat5496 I'm sorry to say it's not that simple. Chronic health conditions are very poorly treated in homeless populations because the ER isn't able to handle things that aren't immediately life threatening. Depending on the state homeless people may qualify for Medicaid, but it doesn't cover everything, doctors who take it are generally less skilled and experienced, and not all homeless people are able to navigate the system to get this benefit. Chronic health conditions make it difficult or impossible to hold down a job, so the cycle of poor medical treatment and inability to work perpetuates the situation. And when a homeless person is trying to get housing, medical debt can get in the way. They don't get a free pass the way you're framing it. Source: personal experience, familial experience, worked at a hospital

@@bigoofinthechat5496I thought he got a home at some point though, like he got someone to cosign. I think they’re saying that the money would have been swallowed by healthcare then.

@@bigoofinthechat5496 ER will throw you out the moment you're stable. They will not diagnose you or treat you properly, just enough where your life isn't in immediate danger. It's bandaid.

Well said.

Not just that but prior experience is worth a lot. Even if he did find a way to completely cut off every single safety net he already has experiences that others more than likely wouldn't have had the opportunity to obtain. With prior success comes very valuable and marketable talents. So his "starting from nothing" truly isn't starting with nothing.

Some people are *actual* victims. Maybe it’s addiction, mental health, or something else. Being a victim doesn’t mean you can’t have a positive mindset, it just means you have more challenges to overcome.

Homeless people have endless barriers that prevent them from getting out of their predicament. Whether its mental health, addiction, or disability. However often times homeless people choose to keep themselves homeless as crazy as that sounds. Not literally by choosing to not have a home, but by not making any attempt to get out of their situation in any meaningful way. Ask any former homeless individual and they will agree.

it's conservative bootstrap rhetoric and capitalist lies, no wonder everyone hates it lmao.

​@@ross4 "it just means" is an understatement

Feeling like you have the power to make your life better is something we should work towards. Judging others because you perceive that their efforts are insufficient is disgusting.

Depends on the sickness tbh. Im all for having empathy for an obviously horrible situation, but lets not pretend like homeless people are sick for their 20+ years of their situation or even that its a big factor. Mental health and addiction are. Those are the two things that make them often times not even want to get out of the predicament and what put them there in the first place.

⁠​⁠@@bigoofinthechat5496 you do understand that living without steady and clean food and water, being exposed to the elements, and living in generally unclean environments absolutely weakens your immune system, right? You’re much more likely to get sick, and without access to adequate medical care, even the most basic of scrapes or scratches can turn into a serious infection. It IS a big factor. Mental health and addiction are also big factors, but not much more so than general bodily health… and to claim that being mentally ill or struggling with addiction makes homeless people not want to get better??? Nah, man.

@@bogscholar691 The homeless epidemic isn't caused by people chronically getting sick. Thats just a flat out lie. I understand you reasonably have empathy for these individuals, but don't let that get in the way of the objective truth. The biggest disease the vast majority of homeless people face is addiction. It affects your decision making process and cognitive health in general. Being sick is definitely a factor in mass homelessness, but it doesn't even crack the top 5 reasons holding them back.

@bigoofinthechat5496 I understand what you are saying. I meant if you're really trying to better your situation, then getting sick is a set back

@@bigoofinthechat5496 I don’t think anyone is saying that getting sick is causing homelessness (although it has in some cases). If we’re talking about the main factors that cause homelessness, then you’re absolutely right that addiction plays a very large part in it. What I, and I believe most of us, are talking about are the factors that make it difficult to *escape* homelessness (like bozo in the video was trying to do). Addiction obviously plays a large role in that, and so does general physical health, as it’s hard to do literally anything when you’re sick with no healthcare, or taking care of someone else who is sick

Mindset definitely has something to do with it. It's a component undoubtably. -Someone who was a homeless drug addict living in the bushes and no longer is.

​@@Bvnewcomerit's easy to tell someone to be positive and think everything will be rosy when you are ready to get off the street. But when demons are hunting you, mindset is clouded. I think you missed the jist even if you were homeless. You think it's easy to be positive when it's freezing cold outside and you are hungry and losing weight thus have no energy for the fight tomorrow. Please if you were homeless the last thing you would be saying is your words

​@Bvnewcomer mindset helps, but I'll tell you from someone who grew up in one of the worst hoods who still ended up being successful(still by pure luck and grit). That was still such a tiny part, just a few of the benefits I had that my neighbors didn't. A mother with a full time job. A semi present father, grandparents who lived close. 2 brothers( went to jail different stints) but they were around during portions of my life. Good friends who did drugs, but no hard ones. Wasn't allowed to hang out atleast during my young years access to mental health. Met a good women etc. Those are just some of the benefits I had over my neighbors. Mindset helped, but having those edges helped me get out the hood and become successful.

Because it was filmed. Drama is great for viewership.

But it showed people “what happens when life is served”, okay? You get to go back to your millions! How cool is it for all the poors to be able to learn that? 🥹🙏

Coffeezilla mentioned infrastructure which is very true, but neither of them touched on mental infrastructure, which is what you brought up and what also came to my mind, and is probably more important than physical infrastructure. If this guy's project wasn't derailed, he probably would've eventually gotten to a point of making a solid $10k a month. He could only do that precisely because of the skills, knowledge, experience, and education he already has, which is the most important thing that people in poverty are missing.

@@edwardmauer7442You’ve made more sense than the entire stream. Thanks for sharing.

I've seen a lot of what is essentially just shaming of poor people, cleverly disguised as "motivational content". I believe the term for this is "concern trolling".

Righteous anger, valid anger, justified anger...

I really get boiling when I see him laugh and bullshit his way around, fuck that guy for real, so clueless so painful to watch

@@EmeraldMara85Just a weak person’s anger. If something that removed from you that doesn’t actually affect you makes you so angry, it means you’re extremely easy to manipulate and a slave to your emotions.

​@@alexman378Being angry at somebody for making light of a very real problem, is not being a weak person, it means you care about other people.

@@lich109 No, it really is. If you actually cared, you’d be doing your part about it instead of crying over a video on KZfaq about a guy you’ll never interact with. And don’t give me the “I can’t” trash, because I’ve seen people with damn near nothing to their name and a family being fully able to help in these instances. Doesn’t leave them much time to whine on YT, but they’re doing their part in helping.

That's just low. Unless the two didn't like one another, that is just low

He grifting for attention, maybe some pity points

What did he say or present as to pull said doctor? Cause what doctor is dating the homeless, please

​@@TheWeeklyWithKiki he wasn't originally homeless. he was making a challenge for himself. he was making 7 figures before his challange.

@@wartygourd So he essentially used his connections from being rich… to help him. So much for “cutting off all contact”.

​@@chrissolace that's what they mean by bootstraps btw

​@@chrissolace yep

"I took control and pressed the eject button on my homelessness. Why can't you?"

"I feel Mike's sincerety..." Pause.🤨 The guy is a disingenuous asshole cloaked in the robe of a "nice-guy" attitude. 🙄 He literally said success has nothing to do with luck or race, but hard work, yet when things got hard for him and the "experiment" was no longer convenient, he decided to "stop" being poor and homeless. Instead of acknowledging that his initial biases towards homeless and poor people were inaccurate, he doubled down due to hubris despite his entire experiment glaringly proving him wrong. 😒

You are spot on

Well put OP, this is the issue of privilege, all of that impacts your money making capacity. Towards the end of the interview saying he sacrificed alot... The sheer lack of self awareness and he thinks making 65k is great lol this dude is a problem

@@nqobilengema2165 Omgg forreal, I thought he missed the point as badly as he could and then he talked about how much he sacrificed. Even more so as if he actually was doing something for someone. He was just trying to prove a point (which he failed to do). He couldn't even make the point that was the entire point of the "class" he was creating out of it. He wasn't doing anything charitable. He literally helped no one with what he did. To talk about sacrifice as if he did anything for anyone at all is truly baffling.

he is arab/asian not white.

@@ChrisWijtmans Please learn the differences between, race, ethnicity, and nationality. He is white.

Him saying he sacrificed made me even more disgusted with him.

and then repeated the revenue number at the end of this video interview rather than the profit 😂

Hey, baby. I got me a six figure revenue, a Folex watch, and a 2013 Prius. Why don't you and me compose a sonata?

Exactly!. Or even suggest to re-do it again in non cvid, non parent, non auto immune conditions. To be honest.. I don't think this is manipulation...I think this is cognitive dissonance, he genuinely BELIEVES what he is saying. He's learnt nothing.

No one wants to admit they failed at something though.

So I finished watching the video and calmed down a bit (heh). Even though it seems like he's had a chance to reflect on things, it really seems like he still believes a lot of this grindset shit, and thinks of criticisms as "hate comments." Also, he says that he doesn't want to be a victim, but all I'm hearing is "my dad had terminal cancer" (which is horrible, but these are the types of excuses that these guru grindset mindset types ignore and ridicule as being "victim mentality") and "I invested a lot of my own money into this project and it was really hard to have it fail" sort of talk, and it's like YES. So why can't you go like the little extra length and actually admit that the real lesson you should have learned and grow and maybe have some more empathy? It's like he's almost there, but doesn't quite get it.

@@gswanson i feel the same way. It seemed he didn't really learn from the experience

The guy was fully out here treating being homeless like it’s an episode of man vs wild lmao

Storage unit is only a concern for working homeless, if you're actually on the streets on of the problems is having the constant stress of "PAY YOUR BILLS OR GET FUCKED" is not something they can handle. Having a storage unit bill just creates that problem.

@@vyvianalcott1681 A little over a decade ago I had to sell or abandon everything I owned. I kept a backpack and a laptop, and was able to send a couple boxes of stuff I wanted to keep to a friends house via the mail. There was no way I could afford a storage unit. People might question why I needed to keep the laptop. I was going to the library and using my laptop to doing graphics jobs on Fiverr so that I had a little spending money. Taking that spending money and investing it wouldn't really be an option. Honestly I did the best I could and it was a miserable time in my life, and I was mostly concerned with survival. I was in the depths of hopelessness and putting my fingers to my temple and thinking about "mindsets" was not going to drag me out of it. Especially with the levels of trauma and mental health issues I was dealing with at the time. The idea that some sort of guru like this guy has the secrets to survive a real situation like that is so insulting, and I don't even want to have to justify myself to someone like him.

That's the worst part, he actually thinks he proved his point. Fucking disgusting.

THIS!

He knows, he's just too stubborn to admit it.

Just somewhere to receive mail is a massive advantage.

The majority of homeless people are not on the streets, they’re on friends couches etc. I see people on the streets with cell phones

​@@Anon.GNot having a permanent home address precludes people from a lot of services, and work. Not to mention the ongoing stress and time consuming effort of constantly having to find safe shelter, and food, adequate clothing, etc. Some people have phones, but not all can afford ongoing data.

@@daniellamcgee4251 nobody said anything about permanent home address

​@@Anon.Gwhere do they charge the phone? You get kicked out of businesses simply for being homeless and trying to charge your phone. How do you pay for the data plan by the way businesses don't give Wi-Fi passwords to non-customers. You can't even use the bathroom. They call cops. You found a place to charge your phone? Great. But your phone and phone charger don't work because they are water damaged because you have to sleep in the rain. Oh and that's only if somebody didn't steal your entire backpack that week, again.

He said he reduced his assets and credit to 0

@@Joren68you cannot simply “reduce your credit”. your credit score is attached to your social security number. it’s out of your control. this dude has a great credit score regardless of what he does with his bank accounts for this little challenge.

How do you deduct your credit score though?

@@forfrockssake he just wouldn’t use his credit score probably

@@Joren68 as an non American, can you open a bank account without ID or credit? Because where I'm from your ID has a direct link to how a bank would treat you, as they can see accounts "tied" together under that ID (AML purposes). And if you are homeless you don't have an account, but as a millionaire your fees would be low and your borrowing capacity high. (I am assuming as well he's selling online through something like Square, which requires bank accounts.)

Coffee this was badly edited, it sure came across like you were softballing this guy and all the cuts are really weird.

​@tellumyort I get that, but I also think nothing can be said that the comments didn't already make a point of. Sometimes I just enjoy hearing what these bozos think they did. I think at this point it's better to just hear this dude out for his perspective (even though we all know he's delusional and a clown for his mindset)