Rampent Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Seen all these 'secret millionaires' progs for years now. And they only hang around for a week and retire to their normal plush lifes and laugh at poorer folk in the golf club. OK tory mugs, libs and totley socialists. Would you have the gonads to take it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Spyda Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Not unless there was something in it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medusa Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Is there a person in the world who would live in truly abject poverty if they had a choice otherwise? One of my acquaintances is a Jesuit priest, and before you even enter the seminary for training you have to commit to living without income doing a job of the church's choosing for 7 years. Your basic needs are provided for- 3 meals a day, a basic room, clothing when your current clothing wears out, a card for using public transport- but you have no cash, no means to get cash and no personal belongings other than your clothes. It's a form of submission and a very large trust exercise. That's about as close to abject poverty as I'd choose to go, assuming I had a choice of course. True poverty is a scary concept to most people, myself included. If you're referring to genuine destitution then I find it hard to imagine that anybody would choose to go through that for any longer than absolutely necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Not unless there was something in it for me. A contract for say £50,000, from a media company? Would that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megalithic Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I'd deffo live in poverty for 50k per year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Is there a person in the world who would live in truly abject poverty if they had a choice otherwise? One of my acquaintances is a Jesuit priest, and before you even enter the seminary for training you have to commit to living without income doing a job of the church's choosing for 7 years. Your basic needs are provided for- 3 meals a day, a basic room, clothing when your current clothing wears out, a card for using public transport- but you have no cash, no means to get cash and no personal belongings other than your clothes. It's a form of submission and a very large trust exercise. That's about as close to abject poverty as I'd choose to go, assuming I had a choice of course. True poverty is a scary concept to most people, myself included. If you're referring to genuine destitution then I find it hard to imagine that anybody would choose to go through that for any longer than absolutely necessary. My bold. That is the point I'm getting at. Shoving some rich person into a grotty flat in a rough area in the UK for a week, is, just not long enough. A whole year with absolutely nothing - might shake a few people up to the real world, and remove thier heads from there backsides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 My bold. That is the point I'm getting at. Shoving some rich person into a grotty flat in a rough area in the UK for a week, is, just not long enough. A whole year with absolutely nothing - might shake a few people up to the real world, and remove thier heads from there backsides. Wasn't there a movie with Danny DeVito where he played a slumlord who was sentenced by a judge to live in his own building? When you say abject poverty, do you mean not enough to eat, sleeping on the street poverty? Would I be alone, or does my family have to come, too. Something like this is much more palatable when you put a time limit on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 Wasn't there a movie with Danny DeVito where he played a slumlord who was sentenced by a judge to live in his own building? When you say abject poverty, do you mean not enough to eat, sleeping on the street poverty? Would I be alone, or does my family have to come, too. Something like this is much more palatable when you put a time limit on it. Anything with him in, by nature, has to be awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Its what im doing now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampent Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 Its what im doing now In what way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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