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

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.

The headline should read "Guy routinely talking out of his ass is talking out of his ass".

Grade A delusional thinking.

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.

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.

Then he doesn't need billions of dollars, right?

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.

https://muckrack.com/jeannine-mancini/articles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannine-mancini-9b4348224

If this is a real writer and not AI generated content (with a fake public profile), it's a college student doing intern work writing articles on topics she is given.

It's clickbait, pure and simple

So it only costs $365 a year to survive in America. Neat.

"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" 🙄

Alternative headline suggestion: "Rich liar lies".

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.

"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.

I recall that even being rich his "friends" complain he wants to sleep on their couch and eat their food.

As long as you aren't sleeping in your bed when the police get the wrong address, or sleeping in an encampment when the police decide to steal all your belongings for living while poor, or kicked out of the library for not having access to a bathroom, or finding yourself in a grocer, mall, concert hall, theatre, school, etc on a day a shooter decides to show up.

Also you can't survive on $1 per day without someone caring for you. That will not keep you off the streets and fed, and it will most definitely not cover fees for access to self improvement resources or recovery.

Who is his audience when he tells lies like this? Like, who is agreeing with him? Even beyond how bonkers it is to say out loud, it also doesn’t benefit him to further alienate himself from the world, does it?

No. I did that once (as a middle class person too proud to accept daddy's help) and it was fucking awful. I lasted 8 months before I had to consult Bank of Dad, which I'm pretty impressed by, but everything about it sucked. I would steal loaves of bread from bakeries at 4am, as they'd leave them outside to cool. I'd go to late night chippies and make up stories about being on a great adventure for charity so they'd give me free chips, I'd buy my clothes from a market that sold soiled and ripped clothing donated from fast fashion stores, and I'd hand sew them back to acceptability so I could wear them. We'd dumpster dive, forage, and beg, and it still wasn't enough. Rent started going on credit cards, I discovered new addictions I couldn't afford just to cope with the pain of no heating, shitty food, and a general feeling of desperation. And I had a fucking safety net, I was nowhere near the suffering of most people at this kind of poverty line.

Elon is a rich prick. I got a momentary taste of poverty and it was fucking awful. He would have caved in a day.

“Why don’t you just eat cake?”

I mean, this story is obviously bullshit and has been debunked over the years.

Not to mention even on its face, the headline is just wrong.

Elon states he had an apartment, but also implies he lived in his office, coding 24/7.

So... he had an apartment and is exaggerating about how often he stayed late.

How much did that apartment cost?

???

Did he just walk to work?

Was he working but not earning a wage?

This is a total bullshit article even by its own text.

Maybe his food budget was about a dollar a day for a while. Sure, ok, that's maybe possible.

This is like those stories that were going around a while ago with various corporations just displaying absolutely absurd budgets for how a person could afford to live on their full time minimum low income job...

By assuming rent is 40% lower than it is, that they don't have to pay for car insurance, never have health problems, never need new clothes, barely eat and don't have a phone or internet plan.

What, in 1800?

Do it again. Now.

He's rapidly headed back to that income level.

What a fellating fallacious piece of filth that read was. Could they suck him off any harder without ripping his dick off? I submit that they cannot.

I would be very surprised if someone born into wealth like Elon Musk ever dumpster dived for a burger or chicken nugget.

Wait, I only donated ten cents a day to an african child, what the hell, suzanne summers?

$1 a day ignores all the favors he received. How much did that add up to? Most people don’t have that luxury.

Anyone can survive on $1 per day (for a month) when their expenses are only due once a month.

What a fucking liar