49thDipper
49thDipper t1_j23518v wrote
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I recently watched the WeWork movie. It’s fucking crazy how after awhile these folks are fine with doing very wasteful and extravagant things with OPM. They lose all sense of what’s real. It’s worth a watch.
49thDipper t1_j234rga wrote
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We are burning it all down. Any future civilization will be fighting over the last two sticks to rub together.
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Finland is the fucking BOSS
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Twitter swings elections. Studying that is very worthwhile.
49thDipper t1_j2374oc wrote
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I’ve thought about this too. Like the stories about fairly normal people that hit it big in the lottery and then are destitute and living on the streets in less than two years. It’s tragic but it’s their money that they made horrible decisions with. But to do this with other peoples’ money just blows my mind. Bernie Madoff did it in the most coldly calculating way. But this guy and the WeWork couple spent other peoples’ money like it was normal to buy jets and mansions instead of paying the electric bill.
My girlfriend and I take turns buying each lottery tickets. It’s our inside joke that we want to see how the other would handle a big windfall.