Most of us, if not all of us, have to work jobs that we by and large hate, at the cost of 40+ hours per week of our precious free time just to keep ourselves housed and fed. Chris made more off of his eBay shit in a week than a lot of people do in a month. Hell, 2 months when you figure in taxes... Do you not see why a lot of people would resent the fuck out of that?
3 points:
1. In response to the question. No. If you resent everyone who gets more than they deserve, you resent about 50% of the population. Chris is nowhere near the top of the list. You can debate what Chris deserves, but he has lived his whole adult life alone in a pig sty with senile and often batshit crazy parents. He has been made a fool publicly many times. He has had his house burn down. He has never had much money. I don't want to get into how much he "deserved" any of this, but if you are presenting Chris as being having outrageous luck because one time he came across $2000, it is a little absurd.
2. I didn't buy any of his shit, but I think most people bought it because they wanted it. Not because they were weens trying to raise his hopes. Not because they were white-knights trying to save him with a few extra dollars. They just saw something that was worth the price tag to them, so they bought it. I think moral judgment of that is really silly.
3. As some of you might have observed, I am much more on the "white-knight" end of the scale than average. However, I have come to believe even more strongly than before that helping Chris in any sort of financial way is not useless, but actually harmful to him. His expenses are greater than his income right now. This is unsustainable. We can't help him. The two ways to help him would be to give money or give him time/advice to help find a job/support services/place to live etc. However, his money shortfall far exceeds what we could/would pay, and he will not accept any other help from us.
At some point he needs to do some combination of cutting down expenditures, finding more income, or finding more concrete ongoing help from charities/government services. Chris is dumb, lazy and greedy, so he doesn't want to do these things. But he is not infinitely so. As much as we make the joke that he will shit himself and do nothing as his would crumbles, he will not let himself starve do death on the streets. He needs to come to the conclusion "if I don't change some things, I will end up starving and homeless". Then he might do something about it. But to come to that conclusion, he has to come a lot closer to it than he is. I don't know if he will. Maybe he will keep skating through, in which case he is fine and doesn't need our help. Maybe he will come a lot closer to the edge at some point, in which case temporarily keeping him off the edge is doing him a disservice.
