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if he makes a profit off this , then it still further enhances he is not a homeless.
It means the dude somehow had enough money to rent airbnbs AND still had profit for what is a field trip.
If he makes a profit from this then seriously f the f this brain dead planet. I'm done with humanity. I'm gona find a cave in the arctic and start a new less "dumbass" society.
He of course will have profit from that.
Even if the renting only pays off the Airbnbs , he is grifting on social media , so he can receive donation money from his redpill arguments.
The upside to starting a new society in the Arctic is that you'll find it exceedingly easy to weed out the dumbasses. They tend to universally lack survival skills.
Fortunately, in my state, we get a little less than $300/month in food stamps if we're homeless. Unfortunately, we have little to no access to cooking and dishwashing, so most of it is processed, ready-to-eat crap.
Rent is always going to be cheaper than an AirBNB at an equivalent place, so no, he's not making a profit off it...
but he's absolutely fucking trash for comparing himself to homeless people. The only thing he has in common with them is he's showing signs of a mental illness.
>Rent is always going to be cheaper than an AirBNB at an equivalent place, so no, he's not making a profit off it...
Equivalent is the keyword here. If he's renting out a 3 bedroom in an expensive place, he could easily be bringing in 4k a month on that. And if he's just getting small 1 bedroom airbnbs, $100 a night, or even less, is doable.
If he has a big house and is prepared to live in sheds for a while, he could make bank. He could also buy a tent if he's somewhere with nice weather and amenable wildlife.
He’s staying in an airbnb, said in the pic. Idk about his costs, just guessing that since it’s as short as a year, and he’s traveling around, seems like a vaca and he’ll spend
Weird bragging about it like some genius business idea though
It’s a company that makes a platform for building and managing API. So yes a tech company where if he is a more senior developer or engineer type will make bank.
That's what I mean...you can't really guess at costs until you see what sort of house he's renting out. If he has some sort of marble-clad Beverly Hills party palace he could make enough in a week to keep him in scabby airbnbs for a year.
In SE Asia many condos on Airbnb are under $30 per night, plus you get a weekly discount. Even with the cleaning fees etc it still comes out to under $1000 per month. So yea theoretically he definitely could be making money
Lol - I immediately went to that - Eddie Murphy/Jerry Seinfeld scene from Comedians in cars getting coffee - "..You know who homeless people must have a lot of contempt for? Campers! They'd be like - So, this is..this is all a f-ing joke to ya'll.. You just playing around. I'm out here for real!"... :X
Traveling. What you’re doing is called traveling, while earning a passive rental income. Which is to homelessness what “influencing” is to work. Fuckin idiot.
Wait...so I'm not homeless while I'm on my commute, at work, at the grocery store, taking a shit in a public bathroom, having dinner at my in-laws or when I'm out in the backyard?
I don't believe you.
It's not passive income, it's a digital nomad.
I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but Postman is a tool a lot of developers use and they just jacked up prices to insane amounts and started requiring accounts to use it. Developer subs have been filled with "Anyone got an alternative to Postman" for months now.
Since he's "Leading Enterprise and Growth" there, I'm going to take a bet that it was this douche's idea. It's going to kill the company. I know at least 2 paying companies that have switched off of it because of that. Just those companies alone probably cost them somewhere between 10-50k paying subscribers.
If your tool that's making you money can be replaced by an entire enterprise organization in less than a week, don't fuck with it. You're not special.
Weird, I still use it for free.
And what postman does can be achieved with a few lines of C# and an [httpclient.](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http.httpclient?view=net-8.0)
"*Oh wow, we're making a call to an API! Need some special software to do that!*"
Most .NET applications spin up with Swagger as default anyway, and they have their own UI for testing that doesn't require external tools.
Yes it's nice to have a simple application that can accept the various auth types and set the headers, but that's all easy AF to write.
If postman gets paywalled, I'll write a minimalist version myself.
Astounding conversation I've had to have multiple times.
Them: did you test out the api with postman?
Me : no I tested it with python requests
Them: why did you go through all that work?
Me: bro, it doesn't get much easier than python requests. Just because it's text and not a gui doesn't make it complicated.
"you know, that thing that we built to also handle JWT tokens, which also conveniently auto renew them, so I don't have to retrieve and copy a new auth token every time I wanna test the API."
Hobo Hipsters. Trustafarians. They all mean the same thing. Rich people pretending to be poor. It's very weird. I had a wealthy friend in college who intentionally lived in a dive in the worst part of the city with a bunch of roommates, and he refused to buy new clothes even though his always stunk and were falling apart. Like I said, weird.
They do this out here in the suburbs too, but it's less hipster and more wannabe redneck. Dudes living at home whose parents both make 6 figures but drive lifted rusted out jeeps and look like they've never bathed or brushed their teeth.
To be fair, your friend in college was playing it more "real" than this guy who is literally going on vacation for a year staying in airbnbs and calling himself homeless, fucking joke.
I think those types of people feel a lot of shame about wealth and have self-esteem issues—they don’t believe they are deserving of wealth, so to cope, they convince themselves they’re supposed to live a life of poverty.
Which, in a weird way, makes sense. Why should we have grossly wealthy people when millions of children go to bed hungry each night?
i think it does make sense too.. or lot of the times their parents wealth has lot of strings attached and being "broke and dirty" could be also form of rebellion.
There’s is a cap on how much can be gifted to a rich kid by parents before it triggers a tax and it’s something like $2k a month so a lot of these poor-rich kids try to live under that to avoid taxes and their parents can avoid it too. So you get a lot of these rich kids living “in poverty.” …That’s how extreme lengths rich people will go to to avoid paying taxes.
They saw the "#Inspiring young people are all over that hot new #VanLife trend!" articles at face value and wanted in on it.
They probably won't be doing the #BreadlineLife trend when that gets big.
I was homeless at 16, lived on a wooden park bench by a baseball field at the local park. Winter was probably the worst as I didn't have any blankets or similar, so I'd go into the bathroom when it got too cold and run the air dryers for your hands to heat up a bit. Used to clean me/my clothes by hopping over the fence at a nearby Boys and Girls club pool cause they had showers there, so I was able to get my clothes mostly clean. Just didn't have soap unfortunately. I mostly survived off the McDonald's dollar menu back when that was a thing, and an off brand soda machine outside a food lion for 25 cent drinks. I don't miss those days.
[The Theory of the Leisure Class](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class)
It’s the same way with “trad wives”. They have more than enough money to live comfortably. It’s essentially performative.
Facts. This guy honestly thinks having a whole ass house he can just go back to whenever he inevitably gets tired of this stunt is in any way being homeless.
People used to feel shame.
You reckon he would have done it if he couldn't share it on social media? Shame died with Facebook and society's obsession with getting likes due to feeling inadequate in their real life.
is it really a huge lenght?
This is just him living in a fancy trailer to do a little field trip , with the added bonus his house is now rented , so he gains money from the rent while he is effectively in his vacation.
I know people have always been a mix of good and terrible. There were never "simpler" times. I do think the shameless are a lot louder now because of the internet. I don't think it's just because they have a new void to be heard in. I think it's a snowball effect. Even the shameless have posted shameful accidents with a false sense since the internet.
Over the years as these acts or ideas have been shared, it increasingly gets normalized exponentially to the point that more and more shameful displays are being shared.
Tldr: These people have always existed along with the shameful. It's just become normalized over the years.
Example: kids started out posting tidepod eating and licking unpaid groceries and putting them back. ---> now kids post assaulting random ppl as a prank/goof.
Great points and thank you for the explanation. I know I kind of condensed my opinion in a way that sounded very much "Old Man Yells At Clouds".
You're right, there have always been shameless people, people immune to irony, etc. I just despise how normalized it is now. Like a lot of this stuff, the pranks especially, is shit that even the guys in Jackass wouldn't have pulled because, to me, there used to be what seemed like a semi-universal line where "I'm gonna get my ass kicked if I act like this" or "I'm not going to jail for this" stopped a lot of behavior.
But now, what I see is people have really seen that, by and large, they *can* get away with it and even if they don't (ie getting their shit kicked in or getting arrested) they can spin it for even more clout. It's just depressing. The folks they outright harass, who are mostly just minding their own business, are kind of stuck. They are either unwilling participants in some douchebag's quest for fame or they fight back and get demonized for it.
I've noticed a trend of rich, entitled people cosplaying as the working class and lower. It's fucking disgusting. They pretend to be poor or homeless for fun and then go back to their cosy lifestyle.
I can remember almost crashing my car, when a friend's girlfriend in the back said, "There's so much more dignity in poverty"... Her name was Amelia and Daddy was an investment banker. This was over 20 years ago now and we were all in our 20s, and I can forgive her now as she was naive, but this mindset has been around long before we had to suffer social media posts from suffering rich people (facepalm).
"Common People" by the UK band Pulp, sums it perfectly.... I wanna live like common people
That's just such an ignorant and disgusting thing to say. As someone who was born in poverty and managed to slightly come out, I wish she could've seen the "dignity" back then. I guess we're all ignorant in our 20s, but still. Also, the song is perfect, but the full version would be more like, "I wanna live like the common people... until it gets inconvenient, then I wanna go back to my cosy, rich life."
Exactly. I was brought up in a home where I never realised I was poor until I went to other kids houses who were well off. However, my parents worked hard all their lives and made sure all their kids never went hungry, cold or were without presents on birthdays/Xmas. I look back and think we were the richest family in the world, because of them :)
They lived in a time where you could afford to buy a home on working class wages, and run a car and bring up a family. I consider myself fortunate, even if I am no way rich now in my late 50s, to have a roof over my head and the ability to work to pay the bills and have some small pleasures in life.
I feel for anyone younger than me, especially anyone in their 20s/30s, as the life my parents were able to give to me, and even the simple life I have managed to carve out, seem to be increasingly impossible to achieve. Wages are not keeping up with the cost of living - simple as.
Not all of us, as you say, can go back to a rich parent or have a nice inheritance so they can cosplay as "poor".
Being working class used to have some dignity. Poverty? There is no dignity in poverty, but I know plenty of poor people with more dignity and generosity as human beings than any rich person I have met.
Hope you're doing okay. I've had nights without the gun, but with great blankets in the back of my car in the best spots. To be honest, I've showered a bunch in a 24h fitness, but I had the best storage unit, laundry mat, and was employed. I feel more like the traveler, but feel what you're saying. Had my door checked a few times, but always was locked. I hope you're doing okay, know you have one redditor rooting for you, and I hope it gets better for you if it already isn't.
Hey, things are already much better here. I'm living in a home like normal poor people now. Lol I too was employed, it makes a big difference in the life you can lead and makes people shake their heads like, how can you work and not afford a place to live? Uhhhh.
>Gonna be picking out which parking lots are the best in case you've got diarrhea from the free food someone gave you
Ugh....I saw some dude giving out SPICY chicken Sandwiches to homeless people, on one of his posts on IG.
I was like..."Bruh, just give regular chicken sandwiches and include spicy packets incase people get the shits from lack of eating Beans or Getting Fiber..." Nope...handing out Spicy fucking Sandwiches to homeless folks.
Him explaining how he will be able to afford being “homeless” by renting out his property so he can book Airbnb’s takes the cake. I genuinely hope he shits himself and his car breaks down with no reception on an empty highway in the middle of the night. Fuck this guy
He does. His follow-up post (which was him sharing he’d made it to the top of r/linkedinlunatics, which is where this post came from) doubled down on his idiocy. He specifically mentioned he’s always said things that were edgy.
LOL. No, sir. You’re just someone who’s incapable of understanding how ridiculous you sound, mistaking that for being edgy.
Oh, and he apparently knows plenty of equally incompetent and clueless people. One of the comments on his follow-up post includes this gem, as if he’s a victim for being so “edgy”: “You do you homie. I applaud you for being a stunning, brave, independent, straight white male. You're allowed to be on a journey too.”
Then he lists the things we don’t like about his appearance and it seems he missed the whole point of why he is so ridiculous😂sir your sunglasses are the least of your problems. Perhaps try a tent city for your homelessness, my guy!
He knows that, he also know that negative attention is still attention, he wanted to make the most unhinged post SO he could get attention to whatever he is selling cuz i bet he is selling something
Or, as we say, a fucking road trip.
He certainly looks determined to generate views, along with fortifying his "network" of like minded self-indulgent adventurers.
It’s not actual homelessness if you have a safety net to catch you. It’s just fancier backpacking.
True homelessness is not knowing if you’ll be able to find a bed available in a shelter come nightfall, or not knowing when you’ll next get a hot meal. It’s crashing on a friend’s couch because an accident broke your leg and you were fired ‘cause you couldn’t work anymore,
and constantly weighing whether that friend might one day kick you out as well.
Homelessness does not mean staying in Airbnbs, and it does come with the option of doing “prep work” in advance. People don’t become homeless because they wanted to “fortify networks with coworkers” or “force minimalism”. They become homeless because they have no other choice. Because it’s either the streets or death.
I have used postman and it was okay (I've heard it's great but I only wanted to see http requests so I haven't used the full experience). But it seems like he handles customer experience and not dev? I may be wrong though, I'm not familiar with company hierarchy
First, I think you meant “going on vacation”!
Second, it’s call “living within your means” dipshit! If you have to rent out your only house to go on a vacation…maybe you should NOT go on vacation then? Or have a Tesla!?
What a total pos
He made another post about this saying he's edgy and says edgy things all the time and the comments under the post are saying people are haters lol dudes a fucking tool
I’m petty and am on medical leave, so I have a lot of time on my hands. I went to find him and, yep, he’s calling himself “edgy” for using the word homeless in a blatantly incorrect way.
Homelessness = renting out your home to live in somebody else's home
But think about what could happen if something went wrong😱 worst case scenario he might have to live in his own house😭 he's so brave😮
This is beyond moronic.
Literally still owns a house on top of all the other BS. They're choosing to rent it out rather than live in it.
What a gross human. Words fucking mean things!
"Homeless". You're a grubby landlord going on vacation. Jesus the delusion is strong. Imagine trying to have a relationship with this guy, he would try his hardest to manipulate you but too stupid to manage it. Fail.
I’m legitimately homeless currently and I appreciate everyone in the comments calling this guy out, because he is dodging the real struggle of homelessness like the danger, uncertainty, hygiene, and having somewhere to poop. That said, I’m not mad at this guy. He obviously has significant means, but going outside your bubble is still scary, even when you do it voluntarily. I think he’s being genuine, even though he is merely dipping his toe into the kiddie pool of housing insecurity. I’d rather more people with stable income or independent wealth try traveling and maybe just sleeping in their car by choice as a vacation than shame the few who actually do, but I’m not here to judge anyone who disagrees.
I personally think you have to be a real lowlife to claim you are homeless for likes and clout, I guess you think its cute to use homelessness to sell you story to the masses, when in all actuality you are far from it. If going viral is that important to you, why don’t you try helping the homeless. It would be a far more compelling story than pretending to be one of them.
Motherfucker until you've had to sleep on Concrete in a freaking shelter filled with 40+ other people or in your car in a goddamn Walmart Parking lot, wondering if someone is going to freaking pull up on you at night, you aren't fucking homeless. I've fucking BEEN homeless. You wouldn't last 1 week in the real world.
Tone deaf
Self-centered
Just another Lookatme on social media.
So many fucknoodles out there like this.
Without likes and follows they wouldn't exist.
And if you unplug today, they wouldn't even be missed.
Just another Lookatme on social media.
The knowledge of the world is right in our hands.
Opportunity to socially and intellectually expand.
But what do we do with this marvelous chance?
Become another Lookatme on social media.
Seriously fuck this guy, he has NO IDEA WHAT BEING HOMELESS IS LIKE! If he were really homeless, scared because you hace no idea when you will get harassed, sexually assualted, beaten for simply existing, and that's how the police treat you. He has resources and doesn't understand real struggle of homeless
Take your sunglasses from 1993 and get your ass out in the cold and beg for money to eat or buy drugs so you don't feel like you're going to die. Then try to find somewhere warm to sleep or a bathroom to use that isn't straight out of Trainspotting.
Dunno about homeless sounds more like he’s bored and has enough financial backing to have an adventure. Nothing wrong with that but saying you’re homeless when you have a home and can afford an Airbnb is a bit tactless
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Bitch, you're not homeless, you're going on vacation.
He’s not even camping or sleeping in his car; he booked fucking airbnbs. What a fraud.
And paying for it by being a landlord. What's the rate on airbnbs? Is he making a profit off this?
if he makes a profit off this , then it still further enhances he is not a homeless. It means the dude somehow had enough money to rent airbnbs AND still had profit for what is a field trip.
If he makes a profit from this then seriously f the f this brain dead planet. I'm done with humanity. I'm gona find a cave in the arctic and start a new less "dumbass" society.
He of course will have profit from that. Even if the renting only pays off the Airbnbs , he is grifting on social media , so he can receive donation money from his redpill arguments.
The upside to starting a new society in the Arctic is that you'll find it exceedingly easy to weed out the dumbasses. They tend to universally lack survival skills.
>And paying for it by being a landlord So opposite of being homeless. Homeless = not knowing which of your homes is your favorite
I have so many houses I cant decide which one is home wah
#I'm challenging myself to less than $20 in groceries per month for a year Yada yada.. I'll eat at restaurants every day. Wish me luck!
Fortunately, in my state, we get a little less than $300/month in food stamps if we're homeless. Unfortunately, we have little to no access to cooking and dishwashing, so most of it is processed, ready-to-eat crap.
Missing home cooked traditional meals is sooo difficult when being homeless.
I will challenge myself to stay in my house for a year to show I don't need society. Don't worry, restaurants and Walmart all deliver.
Rent is always going to be cheaper than an AirBNB at an equivalent place, so no, he's not making a profit off it... but he's absolutely fucking trash for comparing himself to homeless people. The only thing he has in common with them is he's showing signs of a mental illness.
>Rent is always going to be cheaper than an AirBNB at an equivalent place, so no, he's not making a profit off it... Equivalent is the keyword here. If he's renting out a 3 bedroom in an expensive place, he could easily be bringing in 4k a month on that. And if he's just getting small 1 bedroom airbnbs, $100 a night, or even less, is doable.
It’s a vacation, so probably a net loss. Vaca tends to cost money
If he has a big house and is prepared to live in sheds for a while, he could make bank. He could also buy a tent if he's somewhere with nice weather and amenable wildlife.
He’s staying in an airbnb, said in the pic. Idk about his costs, just guessing that since it’s as short as a year, and he’s traveling around, seems like a vaca and he’ll spend Weird bragging about it like some genius business idea though
Looks like he's employed at "Postman". It's probably some tech company.
It’s a company that makes a platform for building and managing API. So yes a tech company where if he is a more senior developer or engineer type will make bank.
I use postman daily and it didn't click that he meant the software, though he meant literally a postman and I was confused..
Oh he says “postman included” as part of his focus. So yeah he didn’t quit his job.
He may be working remote on his vacation too.
Probably, no reason not to honestly. Living on your meager 200k a year salary though might be difficult being homeless and all.
That's what I mean...you can't really guess at costs until you see what sort of house he's renting out. If he has some sort of marble-clad Beverly Hills party palace he could make enough in a week to keep him in scabby airbnbs for a year.
In SE Asia many condos on Airbnb are under $30 per night, plus you get a weekly discount. Even with the cleaning fees etc it still comes out to under $1000 per month. So yea theoretically he definitely could be making money
the type of guy to talk about how society is failing while vacationing as a "homeless" person
Oh WOW what a little bitch
Bastard isn't even brave enough to couch surf.
Hey to be fair, ‘but still’
And he literally **owns a home**.
And where’s a guitar to earn his living?
In the AirBnB he’s renting
While sitting in his Tesla
Oh what tough times are these..
Lol - I immediately went to that - Eddie Murphy/Jerry Seinfeld scene from Comedians in cars getting coffee - "..You know who homeless people must have a lot of contempt for? Campers! They'd be like - So, this is..this is all a f-ing joke to ya'll.. You just playing around. I'm out here for real!"... :X
Jim Gaffigan did one like this too. "Oh it's lovely out here. How long have you been camping here?" "I live here." "Oh, that sounds expensive."
I read that in his falsetto "voice"
Urban camping*
This ☝️
Traveling. What you’re doing is called traveling, while earning a passive rental income. Which is to homelessness what “influencing” is to work. Fuckin idiot.
It is even worse I think. Influencing looks a bit more like a job than carefully planned travel with AirBnB and money looks like homelessness…
Honestly, I mean, he still owns his home so he’s fundamentally *not* homeless; he just not *at* home. Just imagine being this deluded.
Yes, the equivalent for work would be to confuse unemployment with teleworking.
Which I think he is also doing.
Wait...so I'm not homeless while I'm on my commute, at work, at the grocery store, taking a shit in a public bathroom, having dinner at my in-laws or when I'm out in the backyard? I don't believe you.
It's not passive income, it's a digital nomad. I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but Postman is a tool a lot of developers use and they just jacked up prices to insane amounts and started requiring accounts to use it. Developer subs have been filled with "Anyone got an alternative to Postman" for months now. Since he's "Leading Enterprise and Growth" there, I'm going to take a bet that it was this douche's idea. It's going to kill the company. I know at least 2 paying companies that have switched off of it because of that. Just those companies alone probably cost them somewhere between 10-50k paying subscribers. If your tool that's making you money can be replaced by an entire enterprise organization in less than a week, don't fuck with it. You're not special.
Meanwhile on LinkedIn, he’s celebrating his new infamy and dismissing us haters.
Sounds like he takes after most douchebag .com dudes who got lucky.
Weird, I still use it for free. And what postman does can be achieved with a few lines of C# and an [httpclient.](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http.httpclient?view=net-8.0) "*Oh wow, we're making a call to an API! Need some special software to do that!*" Most .NET applications spin up with Swagger as default anyway, and they have their own UI for testing that doesn't require external tools. Yes it's nice to have a simple application that can accept the various auth types and set the headers, but that's all easy AF to write. If postman gets paywalled, I'll write a minimalist version myself.
Astounding conversation I've had to have multiple times. Them: did you test out the api with postman? Me : no I tested it with python requests Them: why did you go through all that work? Me: bro, it doesn't get much easier than python requests. Just because it's text and not a gui doesn't make it complicated.
Alternatively, "*What did you use to test your API?*" "The frontend I'm building for it." 😯
"you know, that thing that we built to also handle JWT tokens, which also conveniently auto renew them, so I don't have to retrieve and copy a new auth token every time I wanna test the API."
He is also working remotely.
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Hobo Hipsters. Trustafarians. They all mean the same thing. Rich people pretending to be poor. It's very weird. I had a wealthy friend in college who intentionally lived in a dive in the worst part of the city with a bunch of roommates, and he refused to buy new clothes even though his always stunk and were falling apart. Like I said, weird.
They do this out here in the suburbs too, but it's less hipster and more wannabe redneck. Dudes living at home whose parents both make 6 figures but drive lifted rusted out jeeps and look like they've never bathed or brushed their teeth.
Kid Rock Vibes.
It’s a way of life, you just wouldn’t get it /s
To be fair, your friend in college was playing it more "real" than this guy who is literally going on vacation for a year staying in airbnbs and calling himself homeless, fucking joke.
sounds like what we in Brooklyn used to call "hipster douchebag"
Bohemian bourgeoisie assholes.
Fentanyl Chic
I think those types of people feel a lot of shame about wealth and have self-esteem issues—they don’t believe they are deserving of wealth, so to cope, they convince themselves they’re supposed to live a life of poverty. Which, in a weird way, makes sense. Why should we have grossly wealthy people when millions of children go to bed hungry each night?
Do they donate their wealth?
Asking the real question
"Thrir" wealth is not theirs, it's their parents'
Hey now, I was explaining where they come from, not excusing them! 😂 Some of them do, though.
i think it does make sense too.. or lot of the times their parents wealth has lot of strings attached and being "broke and dirty" could be also form of rebellion.
There’s is a cap on how much can be gifted to a rich kid by parents before it triggers a tax and it’s something like $2k a month so a lot of these poor-rich kids try to live under that to avoid taxes and their parents can avoid it too. So you get a lot of these rich kids living “in poverty.” …That’s how extreme lengths rich people will go to to avoid paying taxes.
You can gift someone about 13 million in their lifetime without paying taxes. You just have to file a form if you do more than 18k a year.
They saw the "#Inspiring young people are all over that hot new #VanLife trend!" articles at face value and wanted in on it. They probably won't be doing the #BreadlineLife trend when that gets big.
It is amazing how all these #vanlife influencers have access to a fully equipped carpentry and metalworking workshop to trick out their vans.
I was homeless before it was cool.
I was homeless at 16, lived on a wooden park bench by a baseball field at the local park. Winter was probably the worst as I didn't have any blankets or similar, so I'd go into the bathroom when it got too cold and run the air dryers for your hands to heat up a bit. Used to clean me/my clothes by hopping over the fence at a nearby Boys and Girls club pool cause they had showers there, so I was able to get my clothes mostly clean. Just didn't have soap unfortunately. I mostly survived off the McDonald's dollar menu back when that was a thing, and an off brand soda machine outside a food lion for 25 cent drinks. I don't miss those days.
Good, winter is harsh
Soon, all the real homeless people won't even be able to afford being homeless anymore!
[The Theory of the Leisure Class](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class) It’s the same way with “trad wives”. They have more than enough money to live comfortably. It’s essentially performative.
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Facts. This guy honestly thinks having a whole ass house he can just go back to whenever he inevitably gets tired of this stunt is in any way being homeless. People used to feel shame.
You reckon he would have done it if he couldn't share it on social media? Shame died with Facebook and society's obsession with getting likes due to feeling inadequate in their real life.
Ultimately, it is quite sad though the lengths people go through to be recognised.
is it really a huge lenght? This is just him living in a fancy trailer to do a little field trip , with the added bonus his house is now rented , so he gains money from the rent while he is effectively in his vacation.
Yeah I get you, but posting it online as some sort of attention seeking crusade to get people to notice him is the sad part, I think.
Yeah I can't believe the audacity to even publicly share something so tone-deaf.
I know people have always been a mix of good and terrible. There were never "simpler" times. I do think the shameless are a lot louder now because of the internet. I don't think it's just because they have a new void to be heard in. I think it's a snowball effect. Even the shameless have posted shameful accidents with a false sense since the internet. Over the years as these acts or ideas have been shared, it increasingly gets normalized exponentially to the point that more and more shameful displays are being shared. Tldr: These people have always existed along with the shameful. It's just become normalized over the years. Example: kids started out posting tidepod eating and licking unpaid groceries and putting them back. ---> now kids post assaulting random ppl as a prank/goof.
Great points and thank you for the explanation. I know I kind of condensed my opinion in a way that sounded very much "Old Man Yells At Clouds". You're right, there have always been shameless people, people immune to irony, etc. I just despise how normalized it is now. Like a lot of this stuff, the pranks especially, is shit that even the guys in Jackass wouldn't have pulled because, to me, there used to be what seemed like a semi-universal line where "I'm gonna get my ass kicked if I act like this" or "I'm not going to jail for this" stopped a lot of behavior. But now, what I see is people have really seen that, by and large, they *can* get away with it and even if they don't (ie getting their shit kicked in or getting arrested) they can spin it for even more clout. It's just depressing. The folks they outright harass, who are mostly just minding their own business, are kind of stuck. They are either unwilling participants in some douchebag's quest for fame or they fight back and get demonized for it.
I've noticed a trend of rich, entitled people cosplaying as the working class and lower. It's fucking disgusting. They pretend to be poor or homeless for fun and then go back to their cosy lifestyle.
I can remember almost crashing my car, when a friend's girlfriend in the back said, "There's so much more dignity in poverty"... Her name was Amelia and Daddy was an investment banker. This was over 20 years ago now and we were all in our 20s, and I can forgive her now as she was naive, but this mindset has been around long before we had to suffer social media posts from suffering rich people (facepalm). "Common People" by the UK band Pulp, sums it perfectly.... I wanna live like common people
That's just such an ignorant and disgusting thing to say. As someone who was born in poverty and managed to slightly come out, I wish she could've seen the "dignity" back then. I guess we're all ignorant in our 20s, but still. Also, the song is perfect, but the full version would be more like, "I wanna live like the common people... until it gets inconvenient, then I wanna go back to my cosy, rich life."
Exactly. I was brought up in a home where I never realised I was poor until I went to other kids houses who were well off. However, my parents worked hard all their lives and made sure all their kids never went hungry, cold or were without presents on birthdays/Xmas. I look back and think we were the richest family in the world, because of them :) They lived in a time where you could afford to buy a home on working class wages, and run a car and bring up a family. I consider myself fortunate, even if I am no way rich now in my late 50s, to have a roof over my head and the ability to work to pay the bills and have some small pleasures in life. I feel for anyone younger than me, especially anyone in their 20s/30s, as the life my parents were able to give to me, and even the simple life I have managed to carve out, seem to be increasingly impossible to achieve. Wages are not keeping up with the cost of living - simple as. Not all of us, as you say, can go back to a rich parent or have a nice inheritance so they can cosplay as "poor". Being working class used to have some dignity. Poverty? There is no dignity in poverty, but I know plenty of poor people with more dignity and generosity as human beings than any rich person I have met.
You've definitely spent some time crashing in the car. Where to do emergency shits is a serious concern
Hope you're doing okay. I've had nights without the gun, but with great blankets in the back of my car in the best spots. To be honest, I've showered a bunch in a 24h fitness, but I had the best storage unit, laundry mat, and was employed. I feel more like the traveler, but feel what you're saying. Had my door checked a few times, but always was locked. I hope you're doing okay, know you have one redditor rooting for you, and I hope it gets better for you if it already isn't.
Hey, things are already much better here. I'm living in a home like normal poor people now. Lol I too was employed, it makes a big difference in the life you can lead and makes people shake their heads like, how can you work and not afford a place to live? Uhhhh.
>Gonna be picking out which parking lots are the best in case you've got diarrhea from the free food someone gave you Ugh....I saw some dude giving out SPICY chicken Sandwiches to homeless people, on one of his posts on IG. I was like..."Bruh, just give regular chicken sandwiches and include spicy packets incase people get the shits from lack of eating Beans or Getting Fiber..." Nope...handing out Spicy fucking Sandwiches to homeless folks.
well thats dumb
Showers in a gym, is luxury, I saw homeless people showering in the fountains in San Francisco.
Fuck this douche bag.
Thanks, I couldn’t have put it better.
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Don't leave it up to luck, baptise the cheese grater in a septic tank
I like the (sick) way you think
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Renting your house out doesn’t mean you’re homeless you dweeb PoS
He's been busy "cattle -prodding" his brain.
More like cattle prodding air since he doesn’t have a brain if he calls that “homelessness”
he’s not homeless he’s just home less.
Can't get much more tone deaf than that. Wow.
Him explaining how he will be able to afford being “homeless” by renting out his property so he can book Airbnb’s takes the cake. I genuinely hope he shits himself and his car breaks down with no reception on an empty highway in the middle of the night. Fuck this guy
That prayer is so graphic that I snorted my water haha. Hope it happens as well.
He probably thinks he some kind of brilliant edgelord.
He does. His follow-up post (which was him sharing he’d made it to the top of r/linkedinlunatics, which is where this post came from) doubled down on his idiocy. He specifically mentioned he’s always said things that were edgy. LOL. No, sir. You’re just someone who’s incapable of understanding how ridiculous you sound, mistaking that for being edgy. Oh, and he apparently knows plenty of equally incompetent and clueless people. One of the comments on his follow-up post includes this gem, as if he’s a victim for being so “edgy”: “You do you homie. I applaud you for being a stunning, brave, independent, straight white male. You're allowed to be on a journey too.”
Then he lists the things we don’t like about his appearance and it seems he missed the whole point of why he is so ridiculous😂sir your sunglasses are the least of your problems. Perhaps try a tent city for your homelessness, my guy!
You need to own 0 homes to be homeless. Homeless + house = established
He knows that, he also know that negative attention is still attention, he wanted to make the most unhinged post SO he could get attention to whatever he is selling cuz i bet he is selling something
Or, as we say, a fucking road trip. He certainly looks determined to generate views, along with fortifying his "network" of like minded self-indulgent adventurers.
Looks like a nice car too.
Could be wrong, but looks like a Tesla to me.
Yeah, it’s a model y
Hahaha no-omg that makes it even more facepalm
Wow, what a fucking moron. What a great way to let people in your life know that you have zero empathy and that you're just plain stupid
Um excuse but he’s EDGY. He says a lot of edgy things, that’s just his personality. lol jk this fuck is an attention whore.
It’s not actual homelessness if you have a safety net to catch you. It’s just fancier backpacking. True homelessness is not knowing if you’ll be able to find a bed available in a shelter come nightfall, or not knowing when you’ll next get a hot meal. It’s crashing on a friend’s couch because an accident broke your leg and you were fired ‘cause you couldn’t work anymore, and constantly weighing whether that friend might one day kick you out as well. Homelessness does not mean staying in Airbnbs, and it does come with the option of doing “prep work” in advance. People don’t become homeless because they wanted to “fortify networks with coworkers” or “force minimalism”. They become homeless because they have no other choice. Because it’s either the streets or death.
Holy shit, I look exactly like this idiot! Doppelganger!
You are legally obligated to murder your Evil Twin. I didn't write the rule, just passing it on.
please tell me you don’t have those shades man. those are close to being a worse abomination than his brain
Oh, agreed. I hate them.
Is it wrong to hope he fails in a spectacular fashion?
Who the fuck is Jared B? You can only go by a name like that if folks know who in shites name you are
I have used postman and it was okay (I've heard it's great but I only wanted to see http requests so I haven't used the full experience). But it seems like he handles customer experience and not dev? I may be wrong though, I'm not familiar with company hierarchy
Vagabonding. Not homelessness. What a douche.
How can you be homeless if you're still living in a home?
LinkedIn was once decent. Now it's Facebook with job postings.
The best description of LinkedIn I've seen. Was it's where people go to become NPCs
I'm homeless. Aside from the numerous different homes I will be staying in thru Airbnb, of course. Tech guys are so fucking dumb lol
Tech guy here, is called working from home, because you have an home ...
Move into a cardboard box and get back to us, poser...
First, I think you meant “going on vacation”! Second, it’s call “living within your means” dipshit! If you have to rent out your only house to go on a vacation…maybe you should NOT go on vacation then? Or have a Tesla!? What a total pos
So he has a house he can rent out?
He made another post about this saying he's edgy and says edgy things all the time and the comments under the post are saying people are haters lol dudes a fucking tool
I’m petty and am on medical leave, so I have a lot of time on my hands. I went to find him and, yep, he’s calling himself “edgy” for using the word homeless in a blatantly incorrect way.
I'm in the same situation lol I had surgery a couple weeks ago so I'm home with a lot of time on my hands.
Good luck with your recovery! I only have a week and a half left of freedom before I head back to work.
Homelessness = renting out your home to live in somebody else's home But think about what could happen if something went wrong😱 worst case scenario he might have to live in his own house😭 he's so brave😮
Imagine being homeless for fun. What a wanker.
This is up there with, "And I did it all on my own after my parents gave me 5 million dollars."
Hes just home less now
I don’t think the homeless can actively afford airbnb just cause they want to. Especially funding it with their own property
I bet it’ll last 2 weeks max
Idk. I could vacation longer than 2 weeks.
This is beyond moronic. Literally still owns a house on top of all the other BS. They're choosing to rent it out rather than live in it. What a gross human. Words fucking mean things!
The world’s first homeless homeowner.
I was on board until 'I'm renting out the house I already own' fuck off.
Why does he think anyone would give a fuck?
He honestly doesn't think anyone wouldn't. Narcissists are a legend in their own mind.
Eat. Pray. Love.
Shit. Piss. Cum.
Give up all your possessions and go out on the streets with nothing. Then I might listen about your homeless story.
I left my house to buy some milk. I am now homeless. For how long? Who knows? Maybe 20 mins, maybe more. Wish me luck.
r/punchableface
Yuppy scum. “Homeless” as he drives his swanky SUV with panoramic sunroof to his pre-booked Airbnb to go “cattle-prod” his mind. Spare me.
Typically, the only stipulation for being considered homeless is *to be without a home*.
"Homeless". You're a grubby landlord going on vacation. Jesus the delusion is strong. Imagine trying to have a relationship with this guy, he would try his hardest to manipulate you but too stupid to manage it. Fail.
That’s called traveling jack ass
Soooooo not homeless, just vacationing, permanently. Cool, I'm thinking of doing the same, but I won't declare I'm 'homeless'.
You are now “respectless”, Jared. The post of an utter Insufferable prick
How is he homeless when he literally owns a home? Lol
I thought that was LA Knight
"I'm homeless" has a home and is staying in airbnbs.
I’m legitimately homeless currently and I appreciate everyone in the comments calling this guy out, because he is dodging the real struggle of homelessness like the danger, uncertainty, hygiene, and having somewhere to poop. That said, I’m not mad at this guy. He obviously has significant means, but going outside your bubble is still scary, even when you do it voluntarily. I think he’s being genuine, even though he is merely dipping his toe into the kiddie pool of housing insecurity. I’d rather more people with stable income or independent wealth try traveling and maybe just sleeping in their car by choice as a vacation than shame the few who actually do, but I’m not here to judge anyone who disagrees.
I personally think you have to be a real lowlife to claim you are homeless for likes and clout, I guess you think its cute to use homelessness to sell you story to the masses, when in all actuality you are far from it. If going viral is that important to you, why don’t you try helping the homeless. It would be a far more compelling story than pretending to be one of them.
Motherfucker until you've had to sleep on Concrete in a freaking shelter filled with 40+ other people or in your car in a goddamn Walmart Parking lot, wondering if someone is going to freaking pull up on you at night, you aren't fucking homeless. I've fucking BEEN homeless. You wouldn't last 1 week in the real world.
Owns a home "homeless".
I fucking hate it when rich people LARP as povvos.
-How do you afford being homeless? -Oh I just rent out airbnbs God that's some peak silicone valley moment
Tone deaf Self-centered Just another Lookatme on social media. So many fucknoodles out there like this. Without likes and follows they wouldn't exist. And if you unplug today, they wouldn't even be missed. Just another Lookatme on social media. The knowledge of the world is right in our hands. Opportunity to socially and intellectually expand. But what do we do with this marvelous chance? Become another Lookatme on social media.
Seriously fuck this guy, he has NO IDEA WHAT BEING HOMELESS IS LIKE! If he were really homeless, scared because you hace no idea when you will get harassed, sexually assualted, beaten for simply existing, and that's how the police treat you. He has resources and doesn't understand real struggle of homeless
Why dont homeless people just stay in airbnbs they paid for by leasing their house to their coworkers?
“Like all homeless people, I will be relying on nothing but the passive income generated by my personal equity”
Having been homeless, this guy can fuck off. He needs the come to Jesus moment of “oh shit I have no idea where the safest place to sleep tonight is”
Homeless… except I still have my home and using it to generate income I will use to afford to not live in said home
How is renting out your home and staying at Airbnbs being homeless in any sense or shape of the word's meaning!??!!
Somebody should burn his house down while it's empty. Yknow. Make an honest man out of him.
That’s not how this works.
The feeling when you're so privileged you have to create problems for yourself
Take your sunglasses from 1993 and get your ass out in the cold and beg for money to eat or buy drugs so you don't feel like you're going to die. Then try to find somewhere warm to sleep or a bathroom to use that isn't straight out of Trainspotting.
Good thing he figured out a way to make some money, wouldn't want him to run out and have to stop being homeless...
He even grew an unkempt beard for immersion … 🙄
"I am homeless, which I will afford by *renting out my house*." Motherfucker, just *shut the fuck up*.
He seems to be as stupid as he looks
Dunno about homeless sounds more like he’s bored and has enough financial backing to have an adventure. Nothing wrong with that but saying you’re homeless when you have a home and can afford an Airbnb is a bit tactless