Slummin'

So, after reading this article, I realized the only way to be happy is to be a hobo. In order to feel alive, the homeless characters in the article, give up their old, billionaire lives. They give up their affluent titles and luxuries in order to slum the streets. They want to see what happens when they turn their whole worlds upside down. As mentioned in the article, nobody notices who they truly are, which is something of a thrill for them, because they are able to get away with pretty much anything and nobody turns a head. In a society where money is everything, who would notice dirty homeless people literally reaking havoc. The most interesting aspect of the article is the fact that all the characters had a scewed view of what is trendy in standards for society. For example, 'Poverty is the new nobility'. However, with these scewed views come truths about life. This statement is profound in the respect that it doesn't matter what you have, financially, as long as you are happy. In this case, the homeless in this article are the nobility of their domain. They are happy with the way they live their lives. Another profound statement is 'nothing to lose, is the new wealth'. To them, wealth brings nothing, but unwanted trouble. So, when it came to having nothing to lose, the risk of losing everything wasn't worth it, especially one's life. In the end, they lose everything, even when they didn't have anything, which is a bit ironic. They had everything, wanted nothing, and ended up losing everything.