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Comment by cess11

9 hours ago

They thoroughly document their lives, you could just go check whether this skepticism is warranted.

Very often people doing this kind of thing neglect to mention a significant safety net (e.g. parental wealth) that radically changes the kind of things you can do even when you never touch it.

  • It’s fair to question the funding sources of lodgings in a pragmatic way, and doubly so when one lives on a boat.

    In the case of 100R, they seem to have had a lot of help from Patreon folks (per Wikipedia), though I don’t know if this was their sole source of income or funding for their lifestyle. It’s interesting that folks can live like this and share it with the world, and I don’t think that these particular folks have any ulterior motives, and I have not heard anything bad about them. They seem like they’re fairly aboveboard (pun intended).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Rabbits

  • "To buy Pino Devine & I each got a 10,000$ bank loan. We had savings, but didn't want to be left with an empty account after the purchase."

    https://100r.co/site/buying_a_sailboat.html#bankloan

    If you go read their logs you'll find that they come across as people that aren't aware of such a "significant safety net" if there is one so even if it exists it is unlikely to have had a relevant influence on their work.

    They've been excruciatingly open about their experiences and what they've learned along the way, including pecuniary matters.

    • > If you go read their logs you'll find that they come across as people that aren't aware of such a "significant safety net" if there is one so even if it exists it is unlikely to have had a relevant influence on their work.

      On the contrary, they read exactly like people in that situation to me. How many people like that do you have experience with?

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