Pure Defect

Building a life on 25$ and a Gym Bag

So this dude thinks because he spent 10 months pretending to be poor that he somehow has a fucking handle on what others go through, that somehow he now 'understands' homeless? What an asshole! And then uses his pseudo-experiment as a way to hawk a book he wrote about the whole thing, thats the real kicker of all this. I'm sorry but this tool has no damn idea what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck, knowing that any sickness will put you out of a place to live and possibly even a job. He probably can't wrap his brain around the fact that homeless people are fighting against every odd, they might be hooked on a drug, afflicted by mental illness, physically disabled, or even just outright depressed and apathetic to their situation because its all they have ever known. Anybody who gives this guy credit is a fool and should be slapped; the fact he carried a credit card around for emergencies completely blows this thing apart. When you really are that far down on your luck and in the shit there is no magical lifeline piece of plastic in your back pocket that will make it all go away.

Fear of Murphy's Law is what motivates you to not fuck up, to push yourself to get things done and get ahead; this guy had none of that fear because he had a whole network of people to fall back on and money in the bank, hell just seeing friends and family probably brightened his mood therefore the story is even further blasted to shit. Now had someone who had no living family nor friends went into this experiment without any sort of lifelines what so ever then I might be inclined to give it some credibility however this guy is just completely full of shit.

Labels: fail, homeless, poor