• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Bitch, you came from an emerald mine, walkin’ the streets with gems in your pockets. Shut the fuck up.

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    2 months ago

    I too lived on a dollar or less a day before becoming the lower middle class person I am today. It’s easy when your parents buy everything for you and you don’t have expenses.

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      2 months ago

      Exactly. Didn’t he come over for college? So he lived in a dorm (paid for by dad), had a full meal plan (paid for by dad), all his school, clothing, and insurance were taken care of… that just leaves the pack of chewing gum he bought every morning on his way to class. Pretty easy!

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      2 months ago

      Came here to say this. It’s also remarkably easy to mooch off extended family, friends, even strangers. People usually feed their couch-surfer guests as well, who knew?

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    I completely believe that he was making 1$ a day at some point, he’s just neglected to talk about the 20 million he had in the bank from daddy.

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      2 months ago

      Probably also ignoring his college dorm, tuition fees, and probably cafeteria fees.

      There is no way you can “buy in bluk” when you have 1 dollar a day, as described in the article. You can barely get one orange per-day. Not to mention, there will be no way to reach a whole-sale store in the U.S., since you cannot afford any transportation, public or private, with 1 dollar.

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    The headline and article seems to be hugely misleading. According to this article, the $1 was only for food and he did it as a challenge, not out of necessity.

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      For how long though? Because I can survive for a week or so on zero dollars a day, by fasting and foraging for dandion greens and citrus fruit from trees in public places. Longer than 2 weeks and my body would start to fail, but Id survive, technically, for a while longer.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago
    Rent: 22¢ (couch split w/ 44 friends)
    
    Breakfast: 11¢ (2 eggs)
    .......... 1¢ (electricity borrowed from neighbor)
    .......... Free (skillet found in street)
    
    Gym membership: Free (lifting rocks)
    
    Commute: 4¢ (walking in two used Kleenex boxes for shoes)
    
    Lunch: 30¢ (cup filled with ketchup from Wendy's pump)
    
    Commute home: 20¢ (walk on hands, use bandaid for blisters)
    
    Clothes: 16¢ (Scotch tape for holding together discarded pizza boxes)
    

    Yeah, that checks out.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Do you think the staff at the Wendy’s get annoyed at having to see that poor bastard pump a full cup of ketchup every day.

      Like oh jeez, I hope you filled that thing today. I cannot take a half hour of the slurping noise as Johnny makes the most of his 30¢

  • cranakis@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    “I once had to sell an emerald at half it’s market value just so I could afford to pay the maid service at my third home” 🙄

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.world
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    Rent is more than a dollar a day. Without a place to code, he never would have been able to work on PayPal. If he slept in his car and worked in an office, gas is still more expensive than a dollar a day unless he moved his car only on the weekends. In short. No he didn’t. Someone else footed the bill and he only paid a buck a day for maybe food. Not as tough as doing it on your own, which he’s never done.

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    “I saved up all week to buy one banana for $7, and that sustained me the rest of the next week!”

    -Elon Musk, clueless asshole

    Edit: Fun fact: Elon could read this a dozen times and still not get the joke.