“Wait this shit sucks, nevermind.”

-Mike Black, probably

  • kinsnik@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Even if they hadn’t had a loan, the security that the safety net of knowing that of all goes wrong, you can still go to mommy and daddy and have a perfectly fine life, is massively overlooked. Even here, where people are criticizing all sort of valid problems with his “experiment”, no one mentioned the he knew that he could stop whenever he wanted; so there was never any desperation that massively affect the mental wellbeing of poor people.

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      7 months ago

      Have you ever read that quote comparing doing a startup to playing a game of chance at a carnival? Normal people can afford one or two throws at most, wealthy people can throw as many times as they want.