BTW: for those who don’t want to math, Mike says he made 50% or less profit, for that $64,000 revenue. That means $32k profit, which comes out to ~$15/hr for the experiment.
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"
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.
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
@@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!
going from "i had to quit because the experiment became too real" to "if you quit its because of your weak mindset, you can do anything" in the same video is incredible
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.
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
@@someguy4252lol we don't have mental wards for the homeless in America, only jail, then we let them back out into homelessness to repeat the cycle again.
@@astuteandy america has a habit of trying to shake down people with zero capital and then realizing they have no money and releasing them just so they can grab them again later on the off chance theyve scraped up some change.
@@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
22:57 Something absolutely insane about a guy throwing away millions of dollars willingly to prove a point, proving himself wrong, and then being like "no, you guys don't understand how hard it was" No, sir. You don't. You *still* don't.
He didn't throw away a single million 😂😂😂 he kept that in the bank and probably had his money 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.
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
He never answered your question. The dodging, backpeddling, changing the subject and straight up avoiding the question says a lot. Your circumstances does play a huge factor in your ability to succeed in this world. Poverty and homelessness is not a question of character and morality. Being rich and successful is more a factor of luck than hard work.
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.
I wouldn't say its a 1:1 correlation, but luck sure goes a hell of a long way. Especially the type of luck of being born into a super rich family -- in which case no hard work is required at all
this person just refuses to understand, that homeless people get sick. the single mom of 3 can get sick. people with no income taking care of terminally ill family members can get sick. None of these people can "mindset" themselves out of the poverty they are in. They get sick, they struggle and they remain financially impoverished or often even worse off. They can't quit because they just "couldn't do it anymore" . And yes, the stress of finances affect their health as well. This guy is 100% gaslighting himself so he can continue to think he is rich because he is special. And it is infuriating.
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" 🤦♂️
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.
I was homeless for 5 years. It was the hardest time of my life. No one gave me a place to stay. He said no one is a victim. WRONG!!! I was a victim of circumstance. I couldn't get a job because I couldn't shower/bathe or change my clothes for months at a time. I couldn't afford a phone. What homeless person pays a phone bill??? This 'challenge' was stupid and totally unrealistic. Of course he failed. I was one of the few who was able to beat homelessness. Honestly, if it wasn't for the pandemic stimulus checks and pandemic unemployment, I'd probably still be homeless. My mother became terminal in the nursing home and passed away, and I was robbed and shot point-blank in the chest - and I couldn't just quit being homeless. Ridiculous!!!
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
@@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!
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!
"starting off with nothing" is alot better than starting off with debt, mental and physical health issues, criminal history, addiction, etc. Even then he wasn't able to succeed, what does that tell you about those who didn't have a choice in being homeless
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.
You can quit being homeless though. California will give you a free hotel room. You just have to fill out paperwork. The only people who are homeless choose to be homeless so they can do drugs without having to do paperwork.
@LarsLarsen77 yeah? For how long? And how many of your belongings do you have to sacrifice when you sign that paperwork? Can you bring all of your stuff that you need to survive, or your kids and pets? And does it come with food, water, sanitary napkins, job prospects, drug rehabilitation since you were so keen to call everyone who is unhoused a drug addict? Does it fix issues or put bandaids on them that will cause someone to sign that paperwork again very soon? And that's one state but you didn't specify a city, so which cities are just giving out hotel rooms for free for some unspecified amount of time? You said it ends homelessness so I'm guessing you mean they get these rooms for as long as they need them at no cost, right? For the weeks or months it takes to get a job and afford a place? Is it all of California regardless of funding? And that's one state out of 50, homelessness and poverty is a country wide issue. So which states should all of these homeless people relocate to when they finally decide to choose to be housed again, as you so empathetically put it? And where will they get the money to do that very costly relocating since it's not a country wide feature. You didn't do enough research on this because your opinion is straight out of an 80s very special episode and not based in factual data or lived experience. Some people stay on the streets because it's the only way they can hold onto the few possessions they have. Shelters don't protect their stuff, so if it's stolen it's gone, and they often have cutoff times for when you check in and how long you can stay. If you work a shift that conflicts with curfew for example, what do you do? Do you have to share those rooms with someone you don't know? What if that ends in an assault? The real problem is a government that has the tools to end homelessness but instead puts funding into putting spikes on park benches and outlawing sleeping in encampments, and these are half measures that put the unhoused at greater risk for abuse and exploitation. A hotel room isn't going to fix so many of the systemic issues that cause homelessness. And neither is denying them compassion because it's easier to think they asked for this than to think but for the grace of God, it could be 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 wasn't truly homeless, he always had something to fall back on. The mentality being stripped away by the pinch and desperation of poverty is not something that can easily be overcome. Storms take that man
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.
It’s weird that the millionaire video is going on viral on Twitter when the video on Leon’s channel was made over two years ago. Social media seems to work in cycles and just regurgitates old content every few years.
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.
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.
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.. 😖
He didn't even do it right. He had a safety net and KNEW he had one. Now if he really wanted to do it right, he should have to grapple with the idea that if he doesn't achieve anything, he'll die starving, sick, cold, etc. Physically homeless people have it bad enough, but the mental strain of knowing you're never safe, ever, would destroy any person.
"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.
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.
He was given a lifeline at the end, a single chance to say, "I was Naïve and it was harder than I thought" and instead, doubled down once again. Poor guys was the absolute victim of life, but the lesson couldn't stick because he was a victim for all of a few months. Don't want to paint tragedy as something easy to forget and he will always be a victim of his father's illness, but then again, most of us are, but not all of us have a cushion to land on.
Preaching that "You are not the victim, it is al down to how you react to set backs". Then quitting the challenge because of set back. How much lack of self awareness can you have.
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.
Priceless. Yes, Mr. Millionaire, please tell me as a homeless person how I'm doing homeless wrong. My dad also got cancer (stage 4). I wasn't able to quit. I got a call that he died two hours before my job interview. I needed the job, so I somehow got through it. We don't get Get Out Of Homelessness Free cards like you.
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! 🙄
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.
I have actually gone homeless for a year and was lost for more. He has no fucking idea what it’s like to actually be broke, isolated, and depressed and not have money and assets waiting on me after I got tired of being homeless. I had nothing and had to build up my life from actual nothing. This guy doesn’t have a fucking clue.
Same. I have to tell people I started out my life after highschool being homeless and in a bit of debt. A lot of people just don't understand that not everyone has flowers and roses. At least I made it out a bit better than my brother though as he basically started out homeless waayyyy before I did. Bad circumstances are bad yo!
I was homeless after being kicked out with nothing by abusive family. I struggled and slept rough thru a Chicago winter but was in a suburban area with no assistance for homeless. Someone took pity on me and took me in so i could get back on my feet. I am eternally greatful to that person because i know i was lucky i know that doesn't usually happen and they gave me back my life
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.
@@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
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.
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.
I have no respect for this guy. He exemplified dozens of toxic traits. He doesn't solve issues, he is the issue. Yeah, people need to do what they do but yeah, also many times people ARE VICTIMS. Pretending people don't get victimized only allows bad people to continue to do bad things. People don't operate in a vacuum. It's exactly the wrong, toxic, contemptuous, and sometimes hateful mindset that these hustle grifters have.
I feel like one of the biggest things people miss when they have this kind of attitude, is that having resilience, perseverance and the ability to problem solve just isn't a skill everyone posseses. It's very easy to take internal attributes like that and think that because it exists within your mind, anyone can do it if they have the same mindset - but people literally do not have the same mind state as you. In the same way it is universally good to exercise, but not everyone can become an Olympic athlete by "putting in the work", having resilience is always good to hone, but some people have more than others or have grown up in an environment that helped them hone those skills. Yes, your mindset can be hugely powerful, but if you acknowledge something is difficult then I think you should acknowledge that some people WILL fail that hurdle. Those are likely the people who don't have the ability to positive mindset their way out of a problem, so the advice comes off as gross and naive at best. Just because it works for you, doesn't mean it can work for everyone - that's survivors bias
This definitely aged like milk. Even after listening to the interview, its obvious the whole point of this experiment was to suggest that homeless people victimize themselves, and that it's their own fault for not taking control of their lives. His reluctance to admit being a victim of bad luck and health issues, tells me all I need to know. Because if you admit you were a victim, then you immediately have to admit others can be victims of horrible things too. Can't have it both ways. This is why he dislikes the idea of being a victim, even though he was. I know people in bad places in their lives. Some, yes, do it almost entirely to themselves. Others, simply never get the lucky break they need in life.
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.
Literally. . . If I knew my dad had terminal cancer, I would have stopped immediately and said why. I would then, try again later after everything was said and over with. You wanna know why he didn't try again? Because he's an F'in liar and he KNOWS it's not possible!
Wish there was a social experiment where a normal person can become a millionaire for 12 months to proof that millionaires are rich. I would immediately apply.
@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.
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.
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
Yeah but if you listen the guy, you can learn from his mindset, the mindset that made him rich.. But poor people don't bother learning, they just blame, and laught at the rich.
I hate when rich people think they can pull this off. people are struggling just to get food stamps and keep a roof over their heads and this guy thinks he can just solve his problems in a year from scratch? At the end of the day he has his safety net. he will always have his home and cash and comforts to go back to. he doesn't have the burden of stress of having nothing. actual struggling people do. it's that stress and fear that makes things hard. if he gets hurt during his little test he can go to the hospital and have everything taken care of. actual struggling people don't have that luxury. he's just playing pretend and its more of an insult than any motivation.
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".
If you counted in medical expenses, there's no way a person in that situation wouldn't be in severe debt. Even with 64k of pure profit from the business, that's getting swallowed immediately by healthcare.
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.
@@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.
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 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
"Poverty larper quits after medical emergency, reports making less than minimum wage with a rent free arrangement & data plan, claims experiment was a resounding success"
@@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"
@@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.
When you know in the back of your mind that you have a whole home in a storage shed (that SOMEONE is paying for), a supportive family and money put in someone else's account, you're not really dealing with the trauma of BEING COMPLETELY ALONE, WITH NO HELP. He had a cushion to fall back onto. This is ridiculous.
Isn't it nice that when someone in his family got sick and he got sick, that he was able to opt out of homelessness... actual poor people just have to find a way to keep going in their current conditions. Dude learned nothing.
@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.
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.
He’s proving what poor people go through. It’s not just “mindset” even the stress of life and poor health make it physically harder to get around without pain. It’s harder to get up and “hustle” with that physical and mental pain. I bet when he went back to his millions with healthcare and therapy he was a lot better off and able to “hustle”. He had a whole team behind him when he went back to not being “poor”. I can’t believe he doesn’t see that.
I like the part where you asked Mike Black real hard ball questions and not soft ball or, straight up stopped your line of questioning when you where about to ask something contentious. Thats the journalistic integrity I was looking for...
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"
He is not humble. He has no humility. That’s how you know he didn’t earn what he has or didn’t have any of the challenges most of us have. $1 million from scratch in 12 months? How incredibly hubris. He was seriously out of touch.
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? 🥹🙏
Even if you try to "start from nothing", you can't give up -The education you've received -The life experiences you have had that give you self confidence -The professional experiences of interviewing and negotiating -The social experiences of knowing how to read people and situations -The knowledge that no matter how bad your situation truly gets in this fabricated scenario, you have a parachute that you can pull out at any time
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.
God I hate the "don't be a victim" and "it's all about your mindset" shit. It's so out of touch. Especially coming from someone who has the option to quit being homeless once the situation calls for it.
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.
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.
Wow he overcame homelessness by being a secret millionaire! What a challenge 🙄 pretending to be homeless is not the same as being homeless... I saw something like this before a politician pretend to be homeless for a night or so and thought he had a true insight into it, ridiculous
Man fails challenge. Man then says "anyone who fails challenge is weak minded, so it's good that i didnt fail". The arrogance and ego of these people never ceases to amaze me.
@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.
Insightful video. Really open my eyes more about the reality. Our family, friend and network of people and opportunities we have in our life are great factors. And luck! This deserves more views.
This is so frustrating and insulting. I work with a charity that helps homeless people aged 18-25. These people are victims of abuse, have drug and alcohol issues, have been abandoned, have disabilities, are poorly educated, have no family networks, are in debt, have no credit at all, and so on. YES they can make something of their lives and there are so many charities and organisations designed to help. But homelessness is one of the most complex issues in poverty. If you become homeless then everything else has failed. MINDSET has nothing to do with it. Thanks for covering this, coffee.
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.
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.
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.
“It’s all about mindset” I wonder if having millions of dollars of safety net and being able to back out instead of being forced into debt due to those health issues had anything to do with that mindset
Man what hurts more is that he had a chance to settle his case, he should’ve just said “things happen to everyone, for better or worse and at the time I still wanted to motivate people to keep going, but I admit that I failed and it is a challenge to become a millionaire because of the curveballs life throws at us.” I wrote that without much effort but, it still sounds better than the filibuster answer he gave coffee.
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.
I love both channels. I've learned that there always seems to be a great deal of dillusion that comes with access to large sums of money. Ive never seen a large sum of money and ANYTHING LEGITIMATE in the same room.
The fact that he cosplayed a homeless person to prove a point and just said “nah I don’t want to anymore”, will always piss me off. It’s a different kind of anger
@@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.
@@lich109 No, it really is. If you actually cared, you’d be doing your part about it instead of crying over a video on RUclips 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.
Funnier than the guy not answering a single question was that, when Coffee asked him about the actual profit number, he first made sure to check if Coffee knew what the number was himself before carrying on the BS 😂
Dude. Coffeezilla has been there… down a tough road, you can tell Thank you for this. As someone with an auto-immune disease who just wishes I could end my project and go back to the millions I have… but it’s reality to me. Also what wasn’t discussed is debt and credit / the ability to borrow - some may have an easier time out of the hole with or without either one such as getting a home or vehicle, which in turn can be used to make money.
I applaud him for having a level of self awareness thats uncommon among rich people. However, he seems to have such a fear of being a victim that it keeps him from that final step of empathy-- of understanding how uncommon his progress was. Yes he was able to make progress, but purely because he already knew those skills. Most people barely understand chemistry let alone business management.
One of the things this guy also had going for him was business experience and knowledge something someone whose homeless or just generally poor are going to have to learn the hard way which means even worse odds for them.
If, after quitting, his message was "I had all these advantages on my side and I STILL got sick from all the stress and had to quit. We need to be doing everything we can to help the homeless, because until they have access to housing and utilities and healthcare it's too draining to accomplish anything." then *maybe* I'd have a shred of respect for him. If he'd learned a *single* thing from his "experiment" then it'd maybe have brought something of value to the world... but it's not possible for him to learn from this. His ego can't let him admit he failed... so it's just phony excuses that somehow his experience was different to everyone else, and the same message that he started with. The one he proved was wrong. So... If the point of the experiment isn't to learn and grow, then what is it? - It's to get youtube views. It's just a grift.
@@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.
Bro was like, 'stop having a victim mentality' when he quit the challenge due to being a victim of health circumstances. You don't get to tell off others for their "excuses" when you have one yourself
He had somewhere to receive mail, somewhere to stay, had handouts from friends and family, a phone, a phone with a voice and data plan. All the things a homeless person would have, yeah.
@@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.
@@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.
If this guy really wanted to make the challenge real, he should grow up in an abusive household, get addicted to drugs or alcohol, lose everything, and THEN make a million after months or years of living on the street and being further traumatized on a daily basis. Try that "mindset," dude.
Poverty cosplaying pisses me off so much. When you are ACTUALLY in a situation like this, and you don't have a storage unit to keep all your stuff, you don't have a family as a safety net, and you don't have the option of "quitting being homeless" it's a nightmare. It doesn't matter that you are sick. Homeless people keep having to be sick and homeless at the same time. That's part of it. Also, when you're not dealing with the mental health issues or the absolute pressure and weight of your situation holding you down this is nothing more than an endurance challenge. Like people who do those Naked And Afraid reality show challenges. There's no real danger. Being homeless isn't just something that people chose to be and quit because gets hard. It's just THE REALITY OF YOUR LIFE. This kind of attitude is so toxic and harmful especially when people out there are REALLY hurting and really need help.
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.
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.
Something that really stuck out to me was when he said that his friends were going through a lot of challenges, & if his friends were going through a lot of challenges, then lots of people were probably going through challenges... So to me it sounds like he doesnt really face any challenges ... Must be nice... Boy, does this guy raise a lot of red flags 🚩🚩🚩 I hope one day he finds true humility. Thanks for interviewing him. You have such amazing patience by the way ✨
BTW: for those who don’t want to math, Mike says he made 50% or less profit, for that $64,000 revenue.
That means $32k profit, which comes out to ~$15/hr for the experiment.
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"
Larping as a homeless person and then quitting (like anyone can quit being homeless) is the epitome of this social media landscaped world we live in.
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
Millionaire proves that they couldn’t become a millionaire again in current climate even with their prior knowledge. What a champ.
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!
going from "i had to quit because the experiment became too real" to "if you quit its because of your weak mindset, you can do anything" in the same video is incredible
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.
"Guys, I'm going to take a mental health break from homelessness."
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
ah so hes going into a mental ward? or a jail.
@@someguy4252lol we don't have mental wards for the homeless in America, only jail, then we let them back out into homelessness to repeat the cycle again.
@@astuteandy america has a habit of trying to shake down people with zero capital and then realizing they have no money and releasing them just so they can grab them again later on the off chance theyve scraped up some change.
Guy with 800 credit score
Great health
Unique 21 century skills
No mental issues
No drug addiction
No family to support
Can't become millionaire😂😂😂😂
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.
He went to a doctor a bunch of times. A real homeless person would probably not be able to access health care.
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
22:57 Something absolutely insane about a guy throwing away millions of dollars willingly to prove a point, proving himself wrong, and then being like "no, you guys don't understand how hard it was"
No, sir. You don't. You *still* don't.
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 money 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
He never answered your question. The dodging, backpeddling, changing the subject and straight up avoiding the question says a lot. Your circumstances does play a huge factor in your ability to succeed in this world. Poverty and homelessness is not a question of character and morality. Being rich and successful is more a factor of luck than hard work.
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.
I wouldn't say its a 1:1 correlation, but luck sure goes a hell of a long way. Especially the type of luck of being born into a super rich family -- in which case no hard work is required at all
@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese
Who you know goes a long damn way in getting "lucky." Guess who knows more people? Those who are well off.
this person just refuses to understand, that homeless people get sick. the single mom of 3 can get sick. people with no income taking care of terminally ill family members can get sick. None of these people can "mindset" themselves out of the poverty they are in. They get sick, they struggle and they remain financially impoverished or often even worse off. They can't quit because they just "couldn't do it anymore" . And yes, the stress of finances affect their health as well.
This guy is 100% gaslighting himself so he can continue to think he is rich because he is special.
And it is infuriating.
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" 🤦♂️
Bro says it's all about mentality and how you respond to hardship, but he quits as soon as hardship is brought upon him 😭😭
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
As someone in the UK once said..
*These people are born 3-0 up and think the've scored a hat-trick*
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
Man hits a starting 3 pointer and expects to win off that
I was homeless for 5 years. It was the hardest time of my life. No one gave me a place to stay. He said no one is a victim. WRONG!!! I was a victim of circumstance. I couldn't get a job because I couldn't shower/bathe or change my clothes for months at a time. I couldn't afford a phone. What homeless person pays a phone bill??? This 'challenge' was stupid and totally unrealistic. Of course he failed. I was one of the few who was able to beat homelessness. Honestly, if it wasn't for the pandemic stimulus checks and pandemic unemployment, I'd probably still be homeless. My mother became terminal in the nursing home and passed away, and I was robbed and shot point-blank in the chest - and I couldn't just quit being homeless. Ridiculous!!!
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!
"People are never the victim of their circumstances." - Man who ended up being a victim of his circumstances. How clueless can you get?
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
"starting off with nothing" is alot better than starting off with debt, mental and physical health issues, criminal history, addiction, etc. Even then he wasn't able to succeed, what does that tell you about those who didn't have a choice in being homeless
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.
Maybe he should retry the experiment, but this time he can't quit until he makes $1,000,000
Great idea
New respect for the long term homeless. They are savage AF for sticking with it and and not quitting being homeless.
You can quit being homeless though. California will give you a free hotel room. You just have to fill out paperwork. The only people who are homeless choose to be homeless so they can do drugs without having to do paperwork.
@LarsLarsen77 yeah? For how long? And how many of your belongings do you have to sacrifice when you sign that paperwork? Can you bring all of your stuff that you need to survive, or your kids and pets? And does it come with food, water, sanitary napkins, job prospects, drug rehabilitation since you were so keen to call everyone who is unhoused a drug addict? Does it fix issues or put bandaids on them that will cause someone to sign that paperwork again very soon?
And that's one state but you didn't specify a city, so which cities are just giving out hotel rooms for free for some unspecified amount of time? You said it ends homelessness so I'm guessing you mean they get these rooms for as long as they need them at no cost, right? For the weeks or months it takes to get a job and afford a place? Is it all of California regardless of funding? And that's one state out of 50, homelessness and poverty is a country wide issue. So which states should all of these homeless people relocate to when they finally decide to choose to be housed again, as you so empathetically put it? And where will they get the money to do that very costly relocating since it's not a country wide feature.
You didn't do enough research on this because your opinion is straight out of an 80s very special episode and not based in factual data or lived experience. Some people stay on the streets because it's the only way they can hold onto the few possessions they have. Shelters don't protect their stuff, so if it's stolen it's gone, and they often have cutoff times for when you check in and how long you can stay. If you work a shift that conflicts with curfew for example, what do you do? Do you have to share those rooms with someone you don't know? What if that ends in an assault?
The real problem is a government that has the tools to end homelessness but instead puts funding into putting spikes on park benches and outlawing sleeping in encampments, and these are half measures that put the unhoused at greater risk for abuse and exploitation. A hotel room isn't going to fix so many of the systemic issues that cause homelessness. And neither is denying them compassion because it's easier to think they asked for this than to think but for the grace of God, it could be you.
@@LarsLarsen77 tell us more about how you live at home and don’t work but larp as an adult.
They have a winners mindset, they don't quit😂
@@kayjayhay the absolute breakdown of this *chef's kiss*👌🏾
He boasted that he would generate $1,000,000 in a year starting from nothing and he failed. Now he's trying to spin it. He is completely full of shit.
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.
He wasn't truly homeless, he always had something to fall back on. The mentality being stripped away by the pinch and desperation of poverty is not something that can easily be overcome. Storms take that man
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.
When I started Reynholm Industries, I had just two things in my possession: a dream and 6 million pounds.
Lmao classic
It’s weird that the millionaire video is going on viral on Twitter when the video on Leon’s channel was made over two years ago. Social media seems to work in cycles and just regurgitates old content every few years.
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.
Thank god poor people can quit being poor and homeless when they feel bad
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.. 😖
He didn't even do it right. He had a safety net and KNEW he had one. Now if he really wanted to do it right, he should have to grapple with the idea that if he doesn't achieve anything, he'll die starving, sick, cold, etc. Physically homeless people have it bad enough, but the mental strain of knowing you're never safe, ever, would destroy any person.
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.
He was given a lifeline at the end, a single chance to say, "I was Naïve and it was harder than I thought" and instead, doubled down once again.
Poor guys was the absolute victim of life, but the lesson couldn't stick because he was a victim for all of a few months.
Don't want to paint tragedy as something easy to forget and he will always be a victim of his father's illness, but then again, most of us are, but not all of us have a cushion to land on.
Not even a few months, MOST of that time he was given a fuck ton of free stuff no average person would be given
*"If you're homeless, just buy a house. Duh!"*
Preaching that "You are not the victim, it is al down to how you react to set backs". Then quitting the challenge because of set back. How much lack of self awareness can you have.
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 🤣
Priceless. Yes, Mr. Millionaire, please tell me as a homeless person how I'm doing homeless wrong. My dad also got cancer (stage 4). I wasn't able to quit. I got a call that he died two hours before my job interview. I needed the job, so I somehow got through it. We don't get Get Out Of Homelessness Free cards like you.
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
I have actually gone homeless for a year and was lost for more. He has no fucking idea what it’s like to actually be broke, isolated, and depressed and not have money and assets waiting on me after I got tired of being homeless. I had nothing and had to build up my life from actual nothing. This guy doesn’t have a fucking clue.
Same. I have to tell people I started out my life after highschool being homeless and in a bit of debt. A lot of people just don't understand that not everyone has flowers and roses. At least I made it out a bit better than my brother though as he basically started out homeless waayyyy before I did. Bad circumstances are bad yo!
Did he count in his dad's medical debt and his medical debt into his $64k revenue? I doubt it...
I was homeless after being kicked out with nothing by abusive family. I struggled and slept rough thru a Chicago winter but was in a suburban area with no assistance for homeless. Someone took pity on me and took me in so i could get back on my feet. I am eternally greatful to that person because i know i was lucky i know that doesn't usually happen and they gave me back my life
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.
This type of thing is so insulting to actual people living in poverty.
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.
It's quite easy to go from homeless to millionaire, you just need to remember that you're already a millionaire and voila.
I swear millionaires are on average some of the most unintelligent people you could ever meet.
This guy is a great example.
Especially now, it's all Nepo babies, hardly any self made
larps as homeless, gives up, and then influencers refuse to acknowledge the failure because we can't give ANY sympathy to the homeless!
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
"If you change your mindset and believe in yourself, you can quit being homeless and go back to your million dollar bank account."
I have no respect for this guy. He exemplified dozens of toxic traits. He doesn't solve issues, he is the issue. Yeah, people need to do what they do but yeah, also many times people ARE VICTIMS. Pretending people don't get victimized only allows bad people to continue to do bad things. People don't operate in a vacuum. It's exactly the wrong, toxic, contemptuous, and sometimes hateful mindset that these hustle grifters have.
I feel like one of the biggest things people miss when they have this kind of attitude, is that having resilience, perseverance and the ability to problem solve just isn't a skill everyone posseses. It's very easy to take internal attributes like that and think that because it exists within your mind, anyone can do it if they have the same mindset - but people literally do not have the same mind state as you.
In the same way it is universally good to exercise, but not everyone can become an Olympic athlete by "putting in the work", having resilience is always good to hone, but some people have more than others or have grown up in an environment that helped them hone those skills.
Yes, your mindset can be hugely powerful, but if you acknowledge something is difficult then I think you should acknowledge that some people WILL fail that hurdle. Those are likely the people who don't have the ability to positive mindset their way out of a problem, so the advice comes off as gross and naive at best. Just because it works for you, doesn't mean it can work for everyone - that's survivors bias
"To show you kids, you can succeed at anything. If you just luck out hard enough." ~ Leela from Futurama
This definitely aged like milk. Even after listening to the interview, its obvious the whole point of this experiment was to suggest that homeless people victimize themselves, and that it's their own fault for not taking control of their lives.
His reluctance to admit being a victim of bad luck and health issues, tells me all I need to know. Because if you admit you were a victim, then you immediately have to admit others can be victims of horrible things too. Can't have it both ways. This is why he dislikes the idea of being a victim, even though he was.
I know people in bad places in their lives. Some, yes, do it almost entirely to themselves.
Others, simply never get the lucky break they need in life.
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.
His Dad's death is content and about his distress, instead of being there for his dad.
Literally. . . If I knew my dad had terminal cancer, I would have stopped immediately and said why. I would then, try again later after everything was said and over with. You wanna know why he didn't try again? Because he's an F'in liar and he KNOWS it's not possible!
The problem is that he call it a project... but being homeless is not a project...
What exactly is your point you brick.
Wish there was a social experiment where a normal person can become a millionaire for 12 months to proof that millionaires are rich. I would immediately apply.
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.
What this guy doesn’t get is that it’s his privilege that allows him to fail over and over again without dire consequences. Absolutely clueless.
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
He definitely knows but he can’t admit it
Yeah but if you listen the guy, you can learn from his mindset, the mindset that made him rich.. But poor people don't bother learning, they just blame, and laught at the rich.
“You aren’t a victim, you can do anything if you just make yourself do it”
Says a guy who couldn’t even LARP it because he got a little sick
I hate when rich people think they can pull this off. people are struggling just to get food stamps and keep a roof over their heads and this guy thinks he can just solve his problems in a year from scratch? At the end of the day he has his safety net. he will always have his home and cash and comforts to go back to. he doesn't have the burden of stress of having nothing. actual struggling people do. it's that stress and fear that makes things hard.
if he gets hurt during his little test he can go to the hospital and have everything taken care of. actual struggling people don't have that luxury.
he's just playing pretend and its more of an insult than any motivation.
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".
If you counted in medical expenses, there's no way a person in that situation wouldn't be in severe debt. Even with 64k of pure profit from the business, that's getting swallowed immediately by healthcare.
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.
You get sick when you're homeless and that is an enormous setback
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
When you're homeless and get sick, you CAN'T just decide, "Oh, I'm going to go back to my millionaire life." This pisses me off beyond belief.
At this point I'm convinced that the most valuable skill a millionaire can have is spewing words out of their face without saying anything.
"Poverty larper quits after medical emergency, reports making less than minimum wage with a rent free arrangement & data plan, claims experiment was a resounding success"
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
Coffee: Admit luck had a lot to do with it. Good and bad.
Mike: Sure, so I’m going to deflect.
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.
When you know in the back of your mind that you have a whole home in a storage shed (that SOMEONE is paying for), a supportive family and money put in someone else's account, you're not really dealing with the trauma of BEING COMPLETELY ALONE, WITH NO HELP. He had a cushion to fall back onto. This is ridiculous.
he is not starting from scratch he is staring from experience. Ther is a difference
He did NOT answer the question w that rant lmao, honestly one of the more impressive question ducks I’ve seen
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.
He rambled like chat GPT
I went straight to the comments right after that part 😭
Isn't it nice that when someone in his family got sick and he got sick, that he was able to opt out of homelessness... actual poor people just have to find a way to keep going in their current conditions. Dude learned nothing.
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.
@@Bengal9063 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.
He’s proving what poor people go through. It’s not just “mindset” even the stress of life and poor health make it physically harder to get around without pain. It’s harder to get up and “hustle” with that physical and mental pain. I bet when he went back to his millions with healthcare and therapy he was a lot better off and able to “hustle”. He had a whole team behind him when he went back to not being “poor”. I can’t believe he doesn’t see that.
I like the part where you asked Mike Black real hard ball questions and not soft ball or, straight up stopped your line of questioning when you where about to ask something contentious.
Thats the journalistic integrity I was looking for...
You're telling me "If you're homeless just buy a house" logic doesn't hold up?? Gosh darn it!! >:(
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 is not humble. He has no humility. That’s how you know he didn’t earn what he has or didn’t have any of the challenges most of us have. $1 million from scratch in 12 months? How incredibly hubris. He was seriously out of touch.
I've never in my life saw a rich person and thought "they must never screw up at all". Only rich people think that about themselves.
Id like to see him try again in a state that recently criminilize homelessness. He wouldn't even make it that far.
I can’t believe he said that having a major health event derail your life was “one of the cooler things about the project”
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? 🥹🙏
I like how he's spinning it as "I didn't quit. I took control!"
"I took control and pressed the eject button on my homelessness. Why can't you?"
I like the part where he was crying about how tough it was and being homeless as if he couldn't just go to his bank if he wanted to 🤣🤣🤣
When life gives you lemons just load up your last save file.
Even if you try to "start from nothing", you can't give up
-The education you've received
-The life experiences you have had that give you self confidence
-The professional experiences of interviewing and negotiating
-The social experiences of knowing how to read people and situations
-The knowledge that no matter how bad your situation truly gets in this fabricated scenario, you have a parachute that you can pull out at any time
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.
God I hate the "don't be a victim" and "it's all about your mindset" shit. It's so out of touch. Especially coming from someone who has the option to quit being homeless once the situation calls for it.
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.
This guy doesn’t seem purposely malicious or foolishly arrogant but rather just ignorant and egotistical
If it's all mindset, and he failed at his goal, the logical conclusion is that he doesn't have a millionaire mindset..
Wow he overcame homelessness by being a secret millionaire! What a challenge 🙄 pretending to be homeless is not the same as being homeless... I saw something like this before a politician pretend to be homeless for a night or so and thought he had a true insight into it, ridiculous
Man fails challenge. Man then says "anyone who fails challenge is weak minded, so it's good that i didnt fail". The arrogance and ego of these people never ceases to amaze me.
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.
Insightful video. Really open my eyes more about the reality. Our family, friend and network of people and opportunities we have in our life are great factors. And luck!
This deserves more views.
"millionaire gets bored and wants to blame victims for being victims for no reason" is the most realistic title
This is so frustrating and insulting. I work with a charity that helps homeless people aged 18-25. These people are victims of abuse, have drug and alcohol issues, have been abandoned, have disabilities, are poorly educated, have no family networks, are in debt, have no credit at all, and so on. YES they can make something of their lives and there are so many charities and organisations designed to help. But homelessness is one of the most complex issues in poverty. If you become homeless then everything else has failed. MINDSET has nothing to do with it. Thanks for covering this, coffee.
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.
Bro basically said what he learned was “pull em up by your bootstraps you poor bastards” after having to quit pulling himself up by his bootstraps
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.
Millionaire proves homeless people can make 64k with luck
In homeless and I actually cried laughing and hurting when I first read about this. I still can’t believe how not humble these people are. ❤
“It’s all about mindset”
I wonder if having millions of dollars of safety net and being able to back out instead of being forced into debt due to those health issues had anything to do with that mindset
Millionaire gets to stressed living a life of a normal working class person and gives up. But Bro its all about your mindset 🤓🤓🤓
The way he tries to reframe it is even more insulting imo.
“The People are STATVING because they have no Bread!”
*“Let them Eat CAKE!”*
~Mike Black
Man what hurts more is that he had a chance to settle his case, he should’ve just said “things happen to everyone, for better or worse and at the time I still wanted to motivate people to keep going, but I admit that I failed and it is a challenge to become a millionaire because of the curveballs life throws at us.” I wrote that without much effort but, it still sounds better than the filibuster answer he gave coffee.
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.
“But he’s teaching such an important lesson!!!” Yea, that he was categorically, flat out, wrong. He needs to make that crystal clear.
I love both channels. I've learned that there always seems to be a great deal of dillusion that comes with access to large sums of money. Ive never seen a large sum of money and ANYTHING LEGITIMATE in the same room.
does he think homeless people dont have health problems? they are perfectly mentally/pysically fit.
The problem he doesn't realize he proved he cant do it
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.
The fact that he cosplayed a homeless person to prove a point and just said “nah I don’t want to anymore”, will always piss me off. It’s a different kind of anger
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 RUclips 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.
Funnier than the guy not answering a single question was that, when Coffee asked him about the actual profit number, he first made sure to check if Coffee knew what the number was himself before carrying on the BS 😂
Dude. Coffeezilla has been there… down a tough road, you can tell
Thank you for this. As someone with an auto-immune disease who just wishes I could end my project and go back to the millions I have… but it’s reality to me. Also what wasn’t discussed is debt and credit / the ability to borrow - some may have an easier time out of the hole with or without either one such as getting a home or vehicle, which in turn can be used to make money.
Anyone who says they are "self-made" are forgetting (or more likely omitting) a lot of people and circumstances.
I guess “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” didn’t work so well for him :/
He failed to pull himself up by the bootstraps. He quit.
I applaud him for having a level of self awareness thats uncommon among rich people. However, he seems to have such a fear of being a victim that it keeps him from that final step of empathy-- of understanding how uncommon his progress was. Yes he was able to make progress, but purely because he already knew those skills. Most people barely understand chemistry let alone business management.
One of the things this guy also had going for him was business experience and knowledge something someone whose homeless or just generally poor are going to have to learn the hard way which means even worse odds for them.
If, after quitting, his message was "I had all these advantages on my side and I STILL got sick from all the stress and had to quit. We need to be doing everything we can to help the homeless, because until they have access to housing and utilities and healthcare it's too draining to accomplish anything." then *maybe* I'd have a shred of respect for him.
If he'd learned a *single* thing from his "experiment" then it'd maybe have brought something of value to the world... but it's not possible for him to learn from this. His ego can't let him admit he failed... so it's just phony excuses that somehow his experience was different to everyone else, and the same message that he started with. The one he proved was wrong.
So... If the point of the experiment isn't to learn and grow, then what is it? - It's to get youtube views. It's just a grift.
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.
Bro was like, 'stop having a victim mentality' when he quit the challenge due to being a victim of health circumstances. You don't get to tell off others for their "excuses" when you have one yourself
@@Ellie-rx3jt what are you talking about? Word salad for lunch today.
He had somewhere to receive mail, somewhere to stay, had handouts from friends and family, a phone, a phone with a voice and data plan.
All the things a homeless person would have, yeah.
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.
If this guy really wanted to make the challenge real, he should grow up in an abusive household, get addicted to drugs or alcohol, lose everything, and THEN make a million after months or years of living on the street and being further traumatized on a daily basis. Try that "mindset," dude.
he dated a doctor to have a place to sleep & had existing knowledge from his past. his dad got cancer & he quit
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
Poverty cosplaying pisses me off so much. When you are ACTUALLY in a situation like this, and you don't have a storage unit to keep all your stuff, you don't have a family as a safety net, and you don't have the option of "quitting being homeless" it's a nightmare. It doesn't matter that you are sick. Homeless people keep having to be sick and homeless at the same time. That's part of it. Also, when you're not dealing with the mental health issues or the absolute pressure and weight of your situation holding you down this is nothing more than an endurance challenge. Like people who do those Naked And Afraid reality show challenges. There's no real danger. Being homeless isn't just something that people chose to be and quit because gets hard. It's just THE REALITY OF YOUR LIFE. This kind of attitude is so toxic and harmful especially when people out there are REALLY hurting and really need help.
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.
Something that really stuck out to me was when he said that his friends were going through a lot of challenges, & if his friends were going through a lot of challenges, then lots of people were probably going through challenges...
So to me it sounds like he doesnt really face any challenges ... Must be nice...
Boy, does this guy raise a lot of red flags 🚩🚩🚩
I hope one day he finds true humility.
Thanks for interviewing him. You have such amazing patience by the way ✨
this is clearly a person who never put themselves in someone else shoes