More curious whose account he used. PayPal hates it when you move large amounts of money through a freshly opened account. And good luck selling anything on the Internet when you’ve got no transaction history up front.
Yeah, we need details. I suspect it was smaller items: lamps, chairs, etc. that can be moved by hand. People give those away to not deal with the hassle of selling them.
So this guy thinks it’s a good idea to encourage homeless people to deal with choosing beggars on Facebook marketplace?
This I think is really the biggest part of the problem. The dude is so out of touch that he assumes that the average homeless person has a Facebook account and that it is a viable way to get out of homelessness.
Morgan Spurlock, the guy who did Super Size Me, the documentary where he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days (and turned out to be full of bullshit), had a TV show where he tried various things for 30 days. The first episode, he and his girlfriend had to live on minimum wage for a month… and this was back in the 2000s when even minimum wage could get you a place to live. They broke down over being unable to continue their organic vegan lifestyle and finding out they would have to pay a huge ER bill because one of them had a cold and they wanted to see a doctor about it.
Just astounding the privilege bubble some people live in.
I miss Spurlock. Some of the better reality tv content I’ve seen came out of his studio.
One of the themes of both Super Size Me and some of those harder hitting 30 Days episodes was how he would hit a brick wall and have to mitigate or bow out of the project. Stunning how quickly you can go from a happy healthy guy to a burned out wreck, trying to live in poverty.
Before the study began, the subjects thought they were in for an easy time. In fact, they could hardly believe their luck: “You mean to tell me that if I were to go out tonight, and order beer and peanuts, you’d pay?” said one incredulous student. But eating 6,000 calories a day - roughly double what most of the volunteers ingested normally - is not as easy as it sounds. You can’t do it simply by letting yourself go and having an extra scoop of ice cream. It takes effort. One Big Mac with large fries and a large Coke still nets you just 1,164 calories, according to McDonald’s Swedish website.
Just as in Super Size Me, the idea was that all calories would come from fast food. But breakfast at home was allowed, provided it was bacon-and-eggs based. And the fast food didn’t have to come exclusively from McDonald’s: hamburgers could be exchanged for pizzas, as long as most of the calories still came from saturated fats, those having the most effect on levels of cholesterol. Still, it wasn’t unusual for students to be about to go to bed only to discover that they were some 600 calories short of their daily target, and forced to face a large calorific milk shake rather than a mug of hot milk.
This is a fundamentally different experiment than what was performed as part of the show.
More curious whose account he used. PayPal hates it when you move large amounts of money through a freshly opened account. And good luck selling anything on the Internet when you’ve got no transaction history up front.
What? You don’t buy your furniture from the random vagrants who get things off the Craigslist free list?
Sort of the joke. If I want a piece of furniture from a random vagrant, I’m probably in the Craigslist Free List myself.
Also, how the fuck do you move the furniture if you’re homeless? Is this “Yes, I said I was homeless but I still get to drive my $80k F-350”?
Yeah, we need details. I suspect it was smaller items: lamps, chairs, etc. that can be moved by hand. People give those away to not deal with the hassle of selling them.
So this guy thinks it’s a good idea to encourage homeless people to deal with choosing beggars on Facebook marketplace?
This I think is really the biggest part of the problem. The dude is so out of touch that he assumes that the average homeless person has a Facebook account and that it is a viable way to get out of homelessness.
Morgan Spurlock, the guy who did Super Size Me, the documentary where he ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days (and turned out to be full of bullshit), had a TV show where he tried various things for 30 days. The first episode, he and his girlfriend had to live on minimum wage for a month… and this was back in the 2000s when even minimum wage could get you a place to live. They broke down over being unable to continue their organic vegan lifestyle and finding out they would have to pay a huge ER bill because one of them had a cold and they wanted to see a doctor about it.
Just astounding the privilege bubble some people live in.
I miss Spurlock. Some of the better reality tv content I’ve seen came out of his studio.
One of the themes of both Super Size Me and some of those harder hitting 30 Days episodes was how he would hit a brick wall and have to mitigate or bow out of the project. Stunning how quickly you can go from a happy healthy guy to a burned out wreck, trying to live in poverty.
I do not miss him at all. Super Size Me was a lie and I don’t trust anything else he’s made.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/sep/07/healthandwellbeing.health
This is a fundamentally different experiment than what was performed as part of the show.
He said tables, didn’t he?
I can’t know how to hear any more about tables.
Worst case scenario a tech bro like him could sell it for bitcoin, then trade that for cash at a coffee shop.