Sweden is generally quite liberal with state support, and she is really young (graduated highschool in 2023) and has a good relationship with her parents. It’s possible she gets some kind of money through her activism, but she certainly doesn’t depend on it to feed herself.

Some people actually have principles and are willing to suffer rather than harm others. Don’t make excuses for grifters.

As someone who was more an activist before my health declined, I’ll answer.

You don’t.

You don’t eat, and when you can eat, you do. Food luckily doesn’t cost much if you’re eating only for survival. Shelter is cheaper if you’re always on the move and work together as a community.

Sometimes I’d do a labor pay job to make a bit more to cover essentials, but ultimately the community is how you survive. You don’t live in luxury, but you survive.

And not once, not at my poorest of lowest, would I ever fucking take a grifting position. I’d rather starve than do that, and have.

Of course, years of shit showed me people like Greta is only half the solution. You need the saints out there to help the ones being killed, ostracized, and tortured.

But that alone won’t ever be enough, and will just be co-opted by those in power to create an illusion that something is being done.

Violence, specifically very targeted violence, will also be needed. But I don’t think most humans have it in them. We’ve become too pacified by bread and circuses - made so comfortable in poverty and oppression that it doesn’t matter what the atrocities are or what is being done to your fellow person, they’ll just continue as is long term for the most part.

So much so people like you think it’s fucking acceptable to grift to “eat”. Thievery would be more honerable at this point than that, considering how many of the rich control the food supply anyway. There’s so much we don’t actually need, that we spend on too, because it pacifies the despair, anger, frustration, depression and so on from the state of affairs on earth. I for one say let it flow, because then you might actually do something about it, whether taking the peaceful route or the one of actual justice.

IDK what’s up with the downvotes, I think that’s a good question.

Most people her age probably can’t afford to dedicate even just the time required to pull off something like this. And yeah, it doesn’t look like she’s exactly living in luxury out there but you still gotta eat from time to time.

My best guess is personal donations from people invested in the cause. Apart from the boat, it probably doesn’t even take a huge amount of cash to survive out there. About a grand a month seems fairly realistic.

It’s that need to eat that drives people who have the opportunity into being grifter-celebs because they often don’t see a way to keep doing what they’re doing without finding something that pays the bills.

What is it that they’re doing then, though?