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AI Made Me Homeless

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How can you earn 500k/year and not be able to retire and live off of your index fund investment after a few years... Where did all that money go?

money finds a way to get spent when you feel like the influx of money will never stop at same or higher rate

Man fails to build nest egg, reaps the rewards.

If he was really making $500k/year for an extended period of time he must have had the lifestyle inflation to match, in order to be homeless in such a short timespan.

I sympathize with what he is going through, because career in tech has taken such a downturn. My recommendation is that since he has a car, he can do gig work (Doordash / UberEats / Walmart Spark) and easily make $2k/month for his rent and survive in the meantime. Most full-time gig workers make $4000+ per month.

I am open to hearing about a place where this is true, but I feel this is not in most places where the rent is $2k.

I have spent a fair amount of time talking to drivers the past 8 years or so and watched as the money earned with gig driving has gone down while expenses have gone up.

I know it's common to hear drivers purport to make almost $1k / week, working your own schedule, no boss, all the things..

Some are ignorant and easily fooled by the gamified numbers shown in apps, but many are too embarrassed to be honest that they are losing money overall most days when you account for vehicle maintenance and taxes.

Even when not caring about the need for new brakes and tires, tracking expenses like gas and calculating time and taxes, around this city it averages about $8 / hour from my experience, and that's not putting money aside for the new brakes and other expenses for the vehicle that will come up sooner for you than other people who drive to an $8 / hour job and don't use their brakes for 7 hours.

It's hard to pay $2k rent working for $8 / hour.

He is author of 3 books related to software - https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00C8JLXYS

...uses gpt-image-2 for his blog image.

The man is literally homeless and begging for money. I try not to judge people and how they spend their money, but tbh I don't think him spending $500, $50, or even $5 on having a human make a similar picture would be a good use of his meager resources.

He has a fiancee. Any selfie or amateur picture would raise more symphathy.

Guy had approximately one shot at making a desperate call (we can all be there) and he fumbled it with AI imagery and text which will turn off a lot of people.

I must admit that it became extremely difficult to feel sympathy for the guy when, after extensively describing how AI systematically took from him every means he had of creating value, his conclusion was “AI is still great, the problem is that government and charities aren’t doing enough to cover the costs AI is imposing on me”.

Is this satire? Or ragebait?

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