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There is a game you can play in real life where you withdraw a certain amount of cash (i.e. a minimum wage paycheck after taxes removed) and then try to survive
by xwdv 5y ago
There is a game you can play in real life where you withdraw a certain amount of cash (i.e. a minimum wage paycheck after taxes removed) and then try to survive on that for two weeks, only using cash, and subtracting any expenses for subscriptions and rent you use during the two weeks.
To make things more accurate, you could choose to modify your rent expense to reflect the kind of home you’d actually be living in.
If you want to play hard mode, you could also increase the difficulty by simulating illegal immigrant status and get paid even less, maybe half of minimum wage. Almost certainly you will have to choose a cheaper home to survive.
- DarylZero 5y agoSeems silly, this isn't going to be like poverty at all. Poverty isn't just low levels of routine spending. A better poverty simulator is, maybe, go ahead and keep your high level of consumption, but cancel all your insurance policies for a year. Including car insurance. That'll have a chance at provoking some poverty-like stress levels.