I’m watching this guys youtube video explaining his side and his rebuttal is actually very simple. In his expirement, he did not say anything about being homeless and he never said that you can earn a million dollars in one year. His goal was to have a template showing how to build a business. I still think he didn’t learn anything. He is just a super entrepreneurial guy who thinks that he is helping people by encouraging them to start a business and that grind culture can give you a better life. He seems to not want to look above his own place in our system and encourage any substantive change in the social safety net of the US. I’m glad he realized that being a good son, when his dad is dying of cancer, is more important than being a hustler. But he doesn’t seem to have internalized the idea that being a good human is more important than being a hustler on a normal day.
Since you watched some of his content, and I’m bluntly, not willing to do that, I’d like to ask, what did he do? Just put his wealth into holdings and not touch it? Did he transfer his funds and property to someone for safe keeping while he embarked on this misguided adventure? Or what?
Clearly, he didn’t give his money away or anything, or he couldn’t really quit, since that would leave him quite poor compared to when he started.
I’m wondering if he mentions that, or if it’s just a “trust me bro” kind of deal. Regardless of his answer, I’m rather sad that it doesn’t seem like the dose of reality he got really taught him anything.
Hell, I could probably make it more than half way to being a millionaire if I cut pretty much all of my spending on important things like my mortgage, moved into a small, cheap (and crappy) apartment, spent all my time “hustling” and did nothing that cost money regardless of how much I might enjoy it… At least doing that for a few years might get me fairly close.
I’m also pretty sure that if I did that, everyone I know would start to hate me for abandoning them, my SO would leave me, I’d probably even be excommunicated by my brother and his wife (who share the cost of the mortgage right now), and I’d make a nontrivial number of enemies along the way. But hey, this small pile of money will comfort me, right? RIGHT?
Anyways, it seems like a stupid thing to even consider. I’d rather be broke, and living a very modest and happy life with friends and family who I support, than have money. So I’m doing the thing where I choose happy over money.
I can’t watch much of his content because it is just like any other grind culture, serial entrepreneur angle. He was running a company, I think its a marketing consulting firm or something like that. He stepped away from the business which can be run by other people but he felt he could’ve grown it more if he stayed active. I think he’s basically up the ladder of a entrepreneur pyramid scheme.
And I agree with your quality of life comment. It is a shame that he stays so committed to serial entrepreneurship as an overall positive thing for everybody. He said one person was inspired by his optimism and work that the viewer was inspired to work on a business and it saved his life. So one person was helped by this project and the millionaire was very touched. I would have hoped saw
that quality time with family is more important regardless of your wealth. And he could’ve also realized that people are generous by nature and that we should take care of each other more than trying to accumulate wealth and grow a business with no motivation outside of the accumulation of wealth.
I’m watching this guys youtube video explaining his side and his rebuttal is actually very simple. In his expirement, he did not say anything about being homeless and he never said that you can earn a million dollars in one year. His goal was to have a template showing how to build a business. I still think he didn’t learn anything. He is just a super entrepreneurial guy who thinks that he is helping people by encouraging them to start a business and that grind culture can give you a better life. He seems to not want to look above his own place in our system and encourage any substantive change in the social safety net of the US. I’m glad he realized that being a good son, when his dad is dying of cancer, is more important than being a hustler. But he doesn’t seem to have internalized the idea that being a good human is more important than being a hustler on a normal day.
Since you watched some of his content, and I’m bluntly, not willing to do that, I’d like to ask, what did he do? Just put his wealth into holdings and not touch it? Did he transfer his funds and property to someone for safe keeping while he embarked on this misguided adventure? Or what?
Clearly, he didn’t give his money away or anything, or he couldn’t really quit, since that would leave him quite poor compared to when he started.
I’m wondering if he mentions that, or if it’s just a “trust me bro” kind of deal. Regardless of his answer, I’m rather sad that it doesn’t seem like the dose of reality he got really taught him anything.
Hell, I could probably make it more than half way to being a millionaire if I cut pretty much all of my spending on important things like my mortgage, moved into a small, cheap (and crappy) apartment, spent all my time “hustling” and did nothing that cost money regardless of how much I might enjoy it… At least doing that for a few years might get me fairly close.
I’m also pretty sure that if I did that, everyone I know would start to hate me for abandoning them, my SO would leave me, I’d probably even be excommunicated by my brother and his wife (who share the cost of the mortgage right now), and I’d make a nontrivial number of enemies along the way. But hey, this small pile of money will comfort me, right? RIGHT?
Anyways, it seems like a stupid thing to even consider. I’d rather be broke, and living a very modest and happy life with friends and family who I support, than have money. So I’m doing the thing where I choose happy over money.
I can’t watch much of his content because it is just like any other grind culture, serial entrepreneur angle. He was running a company, I think its a marketing consulting firm or something like that. He stepped away from the business which can be run by other people but he felt he could’ve grown it more if he stayed active. I think he’s basically up the ladder of a entrepreneur pyramid scheme.
And I agree with your quality of life comment. It is a shame that he stays so committed to serial entrepreneurship as an overall positive thing for everybody. He said one person was inspired by his optimism and work that the viewer was inspired to work on a business and it saved his life. So one person was helped by this project and the millionaire was very touched. I would have hoped saw that quality time with family is more important regardless of your wealth. And he could’ve also realized that people are generous by nature and that we should take care of each other more than trying to accumulate wealth and grow a business with no motivation outside of the accumulation of wealth.