When you grow up in poverty you don't have a lot to lose. A jail bed and food might even be better than your own. Throw in any kind of abuse or trauma in your past, and you'll also tend to have little regard for your own life. Throw in the overconfidence of youth and I'd imagine it begins to seem like a huge upside with a small risk of an inconsequential downside.
Money, fame, reputation, a fast life that isn’t minimum wage and hopelessness. We worship a certain story in the USA and it isn’t 30 years of remedial work so we can retire and garden :)
