"Private course of applied homelessness": a tourist service from an enterprising homeless person
Are you fed up with tropical beaches, ski resorts and architectural masterpieces? Are you looking for new experiences and are you ready to pay for them? Then a homeless man from Seattle, Mike Momani, so be it, for just $ 2,000, will organize you a three-day tour of the slums and garbage dumps of your hometown.
Former programmer Mike Momani is a person who is homeless not by circumstances, but by vocation. In fact, it's hard to believe that a person with such an entrepreneurial acumen can need something. For his "private course of applied homelessness", lasting three days, a homeless businessman asks for no less than 2 thousand American dollars, and this, you will agree, is quite a lot.
The program offered by Mike exclusively to male clients is very rich. It includes visiting the largest homeless hangouts in Seattle, communicating with homeless people, a begging lesson and relaxing on a bench in a city park. The pearl of the tour, without a doubt, is a rest in a flophouse among the declassified elements, with a full range of smells and a free soup from a charity organization.
Momeni frankly admits to journalists that not a single tour has been sold yet. The man suspects that the reason may lie in the high price of the issue, but is categorically not going to reduce the price for an exclusive service. The homeless man claims that people are interested in his offer and at the moment he is at the stage of discussing details with one serious client.
In order to interest the target audience, Mike announced a 25% discount on tours for members of church communities and social services employees. It is quite possible that this marketing move was not enough for the success of the enterprise and now, finally, the client will be trampled by the crowds.
Momeni has a lot of envious people in Seattle. Instead of investing money and booze in his promising business and developing homeless tourism in his hometown, they criticize Mike and demand that his project be curtailed.
This is how one of Seattle's public figures, who is most outraged by Momeni's business, voiced his position to representatives of the city media. He also added that familiarization with the life of the homeless has the right to life, but it should attract attention to the problem, and not become a source of enrichment. Obviously, the fact that Mike has not earned even whole socks with his business for several years does not bother his opponents at all.
By the way, a service similar to the one offered by a resourceful homeless programmer turns out to be in Washington. There, a homeless enthusiast offers to spend two days in his company, sharing all the joys and hardships of a homeless person's life. True, such an extreme costs only $ 50 in the capital and those, as a result, are transferred to the city flophouse to improve the life of their guests.