No, you missed the part of the original post which says that the author is poorer than a minimum wage worker in McDonald&#x27;s, and is quite unhappy about that state of affairs. Which is a pity, because that was the largest and most conspicuous part of the post.<p>There is nothing inspiring about living in poverty, particularly when it would be quite avoidable if one would only stop listening to inaccurate gut feelings.<p>That having been said, if the author has actually made a considered decision that, when all the tradeoffs are taken into account, poverty is what he wants, that is by all means his decision to make. But it&#x27;s not clear from what he&#x27;s written so far that this really is his considered decision, so the advice is worth giving.