Voyager

Similarly, I got it just to transfer money.

I transferred too much or something recently so they banned me tho. Need freedom of money.

Yeah, the live event is on commercial break. Your Netflix sub doesn’t alter time itself.

Can’t believe how much blind hate in this thread when the screenshot doesn’t match the claim.

Wrestlemania is cool, but nothing beat that 1998 King of the Ring when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hеll in a Cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.

Wrestlemania is cool, but nothing beat that 1998 King of the Ring when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hеll in a Cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.

Eh, that’s the kinda thing you don’t know what you’re missing. Contentment and Hope are a powerful life force.

Indeed! Good for you ignoring the doomers!

Kids are an absolute blessing. Like a bunch of best friend mini-me’s to enjoy life with.

They will respond to you when they’re done putting fries in the bag.

Yes.

The world is full of people who don’t see things the same as you. Instead of posting to get reassurance that you are right and others are wrong, get used to existing alongside people you don’t like or agree with.

Find a new business model

They did, running everything on their machines and charging us monthly to use it.

If true, this extends out of the bathroom. Poop doesn’t magically disappear at that barrier

I self host gitea and have a script that mirrors any GitHub repo that I star. Super useful.

I fork from my own mirror in gitea if I want to tinker. Keeps me from having a GitHub presence at all unless I’m contributing upstream.

my picks

I have retirement money strictly in retirement funds. Other money in index funds and non-US currency baskets, and I play with call options when I know more than the market.

My suggestion was more a thought exercise for the reader, yet genuine advice at the same time. We love to complain about capitalism, but we are often complaining about it in its current form, a post 1971 era filled with ever increasing corruption, which is the greater problem.

felt deliberately misleading

It wasn’t intended as such, I still think it’s a valid point.

Why would you advocate to be fucked like that lmao?!

We are being fucked either way. We take it up the ass from big tech constantly - so why not buy stock in knee pads and condoms if we have no option but to take it? It’s all just a waiting game for the music to stop anyhow.

current administration / crime family

It’s all been crooks for 50 years. They get more and more brazen over time. At this point it’s the entirety of DC in on it. The current admin is certainly more brazen than the prior - but I don’t think he’s any more crooked than the rest. He’s just dumber than the rest.

Your simplistic take just functions as bait to have others financially raped and abused yet further

I think you’re simplifying in the other direction. I’m not wrong that investing in good growth companies rewards you. I’m not wrong that identifying good companies can often be as simple as “what company’s products do you use”.

You’re taking the issue of corruption in the markets and making that the basis for refusing to invest in markets

Perhaps in volatile industries, invest in a mutual fund that covers that particular industry. In this case, digital streaming.

that his is not how most see investments

Sure they see the retail investor side of it, business do good, number go up.

not what you were describing either;
Netflix does not need more help getting started

Netflix isn’t raising money anymore. They are in publicly traded growth mode. If you want to own a slice of Netflix, you can buy it. No different than buying an interest in the ice cream shop up the road from you (if the current owner wants to part with a portion of the company in exchange for cash). You buy an interest in a company because you think the people that work for it do well and the opportunity for growth exists.

When a publicly traded company is finished growing and instead changes its strategy to simply making income - it starts paying dividends. For instance, General Mills, Pfizer, and Verizon are some examples. All of them are paying dividends equal to about 5-6% of their value. So if you think they’re good companies, you can make more interest on your money by purchasing shares of those companies whom pay nearly double what a high interest bank account does (with added risk!)

People who invest in that type of business do I purely with speculative intentions.

I mean, in my income based stock example - sure they’re speculating that the company won’t die, but they aren’t speculating on massive growth. Just steady income.

I would argue that many speculate buy simply holding USD vs Gold - you assume the United States won’t default on debt or make money printer go crazy, devaluing your investment in the “good faith” of the us govt.

Sure am happy to listen. Fundamentals always bubble and burst but in the long run, products consumers like do well. That’s my experience.

Investing is simply loaning capital to someone so they can build and pay for things which generate production.

It’s like if your town wanted a park, but you didn’t have the money, you’d borrow it from someone and pay interest. You’re borrowing from investors, who lend to you with expectation of yielding extra for them assuming the financial risk. That scenario is more like a municipal bond, but similar scenario for the stock market.

If you want to start a farm, or buy a house, or build an apartment building for your town, you’d need investors to pull together capital to pay for it. In most small business scenarios, the investor is a bank. But for some small businesses starting up, who need large amounts of capital and are high risk, they raise money through others in exchange for a piece (shares) of the business. Over time, the business if successful would go public - which means opening up those shares for the general public to trade.

I understand the “people shouldn’t make money” argument, but it’s a proven effective way to grow. Its flaws seem centered around when politicians are in bed with the investors. Then crooked shit happens. We have systems in place to protect and prevent, but they simply aren’t working in the United States anymore due to widespread corruption of our government.

I disagree. I think my original comment was spot on. If you find a product that you like, investing in the company that makes it is an informed strategy.

By investing some extra money with them, you’re owning a piece of the company.

If/when the company goes up in value, your shares in the company are worth more. The inverse is true as well.

If you’re in the US, check out brokers like Charles Schwab or robinhood. You don’t have to have thousands of dollars to get started.