Scumming

After reading the first couple sentences I was very interested in this story. It was amazing to me that rich people wanted to escape their rich lives and live on the streets in poverty. As I read the story, I began to realize more and more why they had done this. As inky always said “being absent is like being the new present,” this phrase really made me think. As if a person were to always be at social events with friends or attending fundraisers with their rich friends, and then all of the sudden they switched their lifestyle and lived on the streets. Would it make people wonder where you are or what you were doing? Also inky talked about how easy it was to get away or travel to different places by taking a flight. But, inky and her husband were able to get away by merely hiding on the street, being a CEO and a publisher they were able to go unnoticed by acting or portraying the homeless. I found it to be incredible that they would change their roles within society by acting as the homeless or I guess you could say getting away from their old identities by portraying a poor person. I can see how it would be interesting to try this, but me personally; I would not take the risks that I feel would be associated to this lifestyle. In the end inky and her husband ended up getting stabbed to death. That confirms my beliefs of never doing something like this, if anything – when I am older and have money I would like to help the needy and reduce the risk of deaths on the streets. Overall this was a very interesting story.