Damn kids! Turn that crap down!

I agree completely with the general response of the above posts. What this kid claims is terribly shortsighted to the point of being offensive. And what's really infuriating is you'd probably never be able to convince him that his experiment is not meaningful. Not really novel, either. Bourgeois youths have been "walking away" from their birthrights for decades, and many of them actually succeed in building themselves (all the way) up from nothing, again. Heck, it's a cliche, really.