I dunno there, @Johnny_L.A, my BIL has insider knowledge that St Jude is a shit show and your donation won’t be quite the Johnny-send you might hope.
AFAS “billionaires don’t like regulations:” they only dislike the regulations that hamper themselves. Otherwise, they actively lobby and take a hand in writing the often pointless regulations that prevent smaller competitors from encroaching on their sinecure
And the reason you’ll never be seriously rich is that those folks don’t understand the concept of “plenty”. More accurately, they don’t comprehend the idea that “plenty” could even exist. There is only more; never plenty.
I’m not saying they are right or you are wrong. Just that your POV makes no sense in their world, just as theirs makes no sense in yours.
I’ve heard that. Nevertheless.
I want a vintage Porsche 911SC, and I want my Yamaha XJ600 restored. I want a couple of airplanes and a helicopter (nothing outrageous). That’s much less than a megabuck. What’s left? A vacation home? A bigger primary residence? What else do I need?
Never mind.
Agreed
More Imagination. 
Once people have a certain amount of money, they become obsessed by their rank on lists of who has the most money.
Impressing other rich people costs a lot. So if a politician promises to leave them with a few extra million at tax time, they are all in.
It’s not really about the fun things you can do with money or the good feeling of giving money or the pleasant life you can buy with money. It’s about the raw numbers. And you’ll do anything, just about, to boost those numbers.
Yanno, half an hour ago I was planning a trip to the supermarket and making my shopping list (because there was a single item I keep forgetting to pick up). But when it came time to add that missing item, I simply could not think what it is.*
My brain is having the same problem with what the fuck PE stands for in the last few posts.
A little help? TIA
That seems…broken to me. Sociopathic, even.
Private equity?
You know, how if you’re an individual, or a business, or even a small nation… and above a certain percentage point, where your income goes straight to serving your debt, beyond which you’re basically screwed? No banker other than the mafia would lend you money at that rate?
That’s PE. But they don’t borrow or lend at that rate. They buy a vulnerable business and siphon off its profits and then its assets, at and above the recovery rate.
One of my college professors told us about a study showing broke-ass young workers (so should be in the Democratic wheelhouse) vote Republican because they imagine they will soon be affluent.
… don’t forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor
1776
They are hungry ghosts, doomed to be ever thirsty, ever hungry, never finding satiety. If you cannot pay off your karmic debt the next stop is one of several hells then after that dissolution; the universe has no further use of you.
LM - and I cannpot stress this enough - FAO
I hope he does go to war over this issue. And, as an immigration attorney with so many far more vulnerable clients than relatively privileged H1B visa applicants, I hope he wins. But I also hope for him personally the blowback is catastrophic and Trump decides to pull this thread:
Because fuck him.
I doubt that’ll happen, but I am enjoying the show of watching him realize in real time that white nationalism is incompatible with laissez-faire capitalism, and the magas who accepted him with open arms figuring out that billionaires are not and never were on their side.
Musk is a living breathing example of the parable of Chesterson’s Fence.
That would be one of the best things to ever happen.
I doubt it will work out that way.
Lunar Module and Food and Agriculture Organisation?
Laughing My - and I cannot stress this enough - Fucking Ass Off.
It took me a while to see it.
Tesla “made America strong?” All I’ve seen is that it supplanted BMW as “biggest assholes in traffic.”