sorry for the nested links

That's fine, like I said, I find this fascinating as a spectator, but I'm a little too risk averse to get involved myself

okay, maybe use language you're more familiar with, lol.

I'm talking about shorting them.

thanks fren!

maybe, but as the old saying goes, "never put all your eggs in one basket"

alright, thanks, I'll look into that

any thoughts on keeping crypto in multiple wallets so if something happens to one(lose the wallet...hard drive crash, etc), you don't lose everything?

maybe.

Honestly, I'm just spitballing, dunno if i'll do it or not, lol

cool, cool

Well if it's that easy, maybe I'll buy a small amount, lol

Dunno, I was just spitballing...

Yeah, but a lot of poor people gamble anyway, might as well learn how to count cards is all I'm saying, lol.

a fair point, lol.

can confirm, lol.

good points all around, lol.

Thanks for not looking at the question like I was a moron, even if I approached it somewhat naively. = )

as long as you know what you're doing, lol

Not really looking at it for myself, just throwing an idea out there and seeing what sticks. =) Good points, though.

CDL

Might have to go HVAC, fiance's afraid I'll run someone over, lmao.

rental properties

Fair warning: rental laws very much favor the renter, not the landlord, and you gotta be prepared to fix anything that breaks at a moment's notice.

The Capital gains tax is too high and "labor-based" income tax is too high. In fact there should be no income tax at all.

agreed.

The welfare system does not encourage savings. It encourages you to spend everything you get as soon as you get it.

The welfare system is not interested in getting people off of welfare. It is interested in keeping the system going.

Absolutely. To clarify, I'm not looking at this from a "use the system the way it was intended" perspective. I'm looking at it from a "How can we help people trapped in this system game their way out of it?" kind of way. Sort of like how people here worked together using the stock exchange to hold hedge funds to account.

On a lighter note, when you get rich on stonks, do me a favor and keep me in mind for a job? I made a mean cup of coffee, lmao

Marxism usually is...

Fuck if I know, I'm just thinking out loud, lol.

nah, I'm with you. I've just long thought about, for lack of a better word, stock market activism to bring unethical companies to heel(for instance, imagine if reddit were a publicly traded company, dunno if it is or not, just yeah, and every user on communities.win bought enough stock between us to gain a controlling interest in the company, imagine the good that could be done just by that action) , and this seemed like, if nothing else, a good thought experiment.

I'd like to add my own question to this conversation if I may;

Any reason you couldn't split crypto between multiple wallets as a failsafe?

Ie: you somehow lose a wallet or it's destroyed, but it only has a small portion of your total crypto in it, so the majority of your money is safe, distributed across multiple wallets?

kinda like teh? lol

I say next time, we greet him on the ground before takeoff with signs that say "don't come back."

I'd still check your cookies just to be safe... had some issues with brave and undeletable whitelisting of cookies...