Keep in mind this definition of reckless financial decision - It entails when a person makes choices that involve significant financial risk or lack of consideration for the potential consequences.
What other reckless financial decision do you know or have heard of?
In my opinion, it's not a reckless decision at all and I just see the person prioritizing his self-respect or freedom over money in this case. Do you let someone decide what you want to do or do you want the freedom of deciding on your own?
I consider someone who decide without deep research like investing on crypto without even learning about it's basic things because they see someone who made tons of money in that is the reckless decision or someone who starts a restaurant without having any experience in that particular field and invest tons of money and in just over months went bankrupt.