Right, but tiresome
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8 Nov 2025
If you would consult the graph...
8 Nov 2025
I’ve completely switched my default mode of operation this past year from saving as much as possible to just simply make more.
It happened naturally for various reasons; the most prominent being running the HFT startup.
Quite the difference on how I operate now. I’d say it’s a much better mental model for like generally speaking.
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One of us. One of us.
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Jun 12
Imagine if Elon Musk did something to benefit others with his trillion.
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The man did at least two things that were considered ~impossible when he started working on them.
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Every company pays the lower employees more in cash and less in stock for a number of good reasons. To name the top 2:
1) it's considered unfair to make less well off people bear as much risk
2) lower level employees have less direct control of results
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A strong argument could and should be made that every employer should be required to offer all employees stock in the same manner the CEO receives annual stock awards or options, warrants ,etc
Whatever percentage of salary/earnings the CEO gets in shares, so should every employee
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Many companies have a maximum base salary for employees, pay after that is a levered bet on results. If the top employees could get more certain pay with less risk most would jump at the chance.
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Palestine, master's degree, socialism, failson
It's like they churn these guys out in a factory
Jun 12
I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
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Finally getting the rich middle-aged guy junk mail I deserve.
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I particularly like the idea of taking a bentley suv mudding
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Sick ideology. Galatians 6:
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
For every man shall bear his own burden.
Trillionaires shouldn't exist and neither should billioniares. Tax every penny in net worth over $999 million at 100%. We can have extreme wealth concentration or a democracy but we can't have both at the same time. Pick one.
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Overeducated Gibbon retweeted
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Hi! Overeducated, underemployed millennial here. Let me tell you about why Elon Musk is actually extremely stupid and bad at business.
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You don't understand because you have the foresight of a goldfish. Breaking up tesla and spacex to fuel the consumption of the American underclass for a few months is precisely the type of shortsighted horseshit that keeps you and your ilk from building anything.
Jun 12
I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible.
Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness.
I just don’t get it.
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That's why elon (and other centibillionaires) aren't trying to. They have their money invested in ventures that are helping all of us. Stealing it to give to others would simply cut those enormously productive ventures off at the knees and fuel consumption.
Jun 12
There is no way a single person can spend a billion dollars, let alone a trillion.
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Probably gonna buy like $100k of spacex tomorrow as long as I can get it past my compliance department
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Have we gotten this guy a green card yet?
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An extremely narrow definition of success found that gifted students were 10-100X overrepresented vs genpop
Jun 11
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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The study defines eminence as accomplishing "something rare" like becoming full professors at research universities or Fortune 500 executives; 12.3% of gifted participants achieved it, far exceeding general population rates. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…
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Funnily enough, a definition that was less striver-coded - including founders of successful startups, real estate barons etc might well have found less overrepresentation of the try-hard gifted & talented class, but the authors' own blinders prevent them from measuring it
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This is so pathetic. Not only is turning 300k into a multitrillion dollar company almost impossible, but Bezos started amazon after working at DEShaw for a number of years, and raised a million outside dollars that same year (8 million the next year)
Pure rage at others' success
Jun 10
No billionaire actually built a billion dollar company through hard work. Apple’s cofounder said the garage story is a myth. Bezos got a $300k investment from his parents. Google’s founders were Stanford grads with access to venture capital. Stop promoting the bootstrap ideology.
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Google's founders went to the smart nerd school and started a smart nerd company. How dare you say they built it from scratch.
Loser ideology.
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Hidden in all this is the unspoken: if I'd had the same advantages, I could have done that
No, you couldn't. You'd have lost all your money gambling on crypto and getting high, then come back on the internet to whine.
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