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Finally, cross-posting from the crypto thread: Went to the Dallas Mavericks game tonight where they announced Voyager as a crypto partner. Mark Cuban is matching $100 free with a $100 deposit and crypto purchase if you use the code Mavs100. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/mark-cuban-dallas-mavericks-free-bitcoin-100-voyager-digital-app-2021-10 Anyways, before the start of the 4th quarter they had a fan come out with a timer and make some shots to qualify for the chance to shoot a half court shot and if he makes it, Mark Cuban gives this guy $100k in crypto. The loudest the game got was when this guy nailed it. We all went nuts for him, what a cool moment. Boban and all the Mavs players were legitimately floored too and celebrating and looked pretty astonished:

Went to the Dallas Mavericks game tonight where they announced Voyager as a crypto partner. Mark Cuban is matching $100 free with a $100 deposit and crypto purchase if you use the code Mavs100. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/mark-cuban-dallas-mavericks-free-bitcoin-100-voyager-digital-app-2021-10 Anyways, before the start of the 4th quarter they had a fan come out with a timer and make some shots to qualify for the chance to shoot a half court shot and if he makes it, Mark Cuban gives this guy $100k in crypto. The loudest the game got was when this guy nailed it. We all went nuts for him, what a cool moment. Boban and all the Mavs players were legitimately floored too and celebrating and looked pretty astonished:

Also...this might be an unpopular opinion, but Luka looks chubbier than usual. I wonder if that's contributing to a slower start than usual. And also, his Free Throws remain an achilles heel. I don't think he hit one at all tonight, did he? But he's the best player on the floor 9 times out of 10, so hey, nobody is perfect.

I've been to Calgary many times and I don't buy for one second Alberta has zero rats.

Brunson or Maxi were the MVP's; love watching Brunson play. Probably my 2nd player favor after Luka. He plays with such heart and would be a starting 5 on many, many other teams. Maxi was playing hard tonight too and making some big shots (1-800-Maxi) THJ had an atrocious game and Luka was ice cold the first half before having an ugly 27 points or whatever it was. But even if he's 0-20, you never know when he will go 10-10 and he's magic. Dwight Powell is not an NBA player. He needs 6 minutes a game, max. He's just bad and it's frustrating. I'm done with him and his 3 missed dunks and bad offensive fouls and lack of ability. Oh, and Bullock's hair is atrocious.

That and the "American way" and the "American Dream" 1 in a billion story. Like an astute gentleman on twitter once said, "those who say follow your passion are already billionaires. There is 1 in a billion Jay-Z's and assume you aren't a Jay-Z." But then you read something like I did today about a wallet who invested $8000 in Shiba Inu coin that is now worth $5bn, 400 days later. And with all the crypto and meme stonk millionaires, it's easy to see where people get the idea that in the land of chaos and amorality, you are a day away from rags to riches. Literally, at times.

The Judge is drunk. It's the only explanation for page 141

This is known as the @Longhorn_Fan68 mode of posting.

If your SUV is too big to park in your garage you did a poor job of purchasing a house, a vehicle or both. Most people I know are building homes and specifying the garage be large enough for the biggest SUVs/trucks, but I did have a friend who had a contractor come out to extend his garage. The problem was his water heater was there and he couldn't do it. I hope his chainsaw is okay in the summer months.

And if wealth grows by 5%, you net 2.5%. It’s almost like a hedge fund model where you pay 2.5% of AUM and reap the profit delta. Not a horrible idea and with the law of big numbers, it could make a material difference. Your and my 2.5% is not even worth tracking comparatively.

Just like how Muslims have creative ways to get around financing loans and interest with home loans, etc., I’m sure there are some “best practices” that help a bunch of Arabic-American wealth to turn that 2.5% to .025%

It is what it is.

I do 10% of income. I have it broken out into a separate account that I manage like a non-profit meant only for charity and help to problems that I pass along my way as a sojourner through this wicked world.

Are we doing csb billionaire stories now? I once had a few meetings 1x1 with a billionaire. I didn't go full 'Ben Affleck in the job interview' cavalier casual, but I definitely challenged him on some things and owned the narrative and pushed my agency as an equal, or at least someone who could one day be an equal with the right lottery ticket. Like ole Charlie Robison said, my friends still love to hear me talk about that year.

Imagine saying "I'm not going to play your games and answer stupid what if's" when asked to answer a question about a direct comment and quote made. You said it was obviously wrong and mocked the idea that a trillion dollar company will necessarily mean there are billionaires due to how organizations are both created and owned. I said "wow, that's completely wrong but in off chance I'm wrong, can you walk me through your thinking?". What law could be changed tomorrow that would co-exist in a world where a trillion dollar company could exist and no billionaires? Just answer the question. You can't, because you are wrong and your understanding of business is horrendous. These are the kinds of people who want to tell businesses and economies what is best-- people who have no experience or understanding of how things actually work. Woefully ignorant, but emotional and romantic. Any wholesale change to American capitalism and the way America does business will be revolutionary. Literally.

I'm not your enemy here; I'm good with taxing billionaires to fund things like health. I just think taxing people at $2m or $5m net worth (your first posts) is a huge overreaction and overcorrection and woefully ignorant, but I can see the good-heartedness and intentions (thus why I said you are a romantic).

Lol can’t answer the question and won’t admit you are wrong. Real big man you are.

Yes judge Roy beans and longhorn. It’s probably pretty dumb of me to even have addressed it because the premises are really ignorant if not romantic.

Tell me again how we could pass a law tomorrow to have trillion dollar companies that don’t result in billionaires (or govt confiscating businesses). Remember that was such an easy and obvious answer that you scoffed at it, but then forgot to address and answer it, so I thought I’d remind you.

He’s advocating for a “this is how much it costs to live” number that should inform a cap on how much one can have. That’s oranges to the poverty baseline apples. Unless he saying take the poverty level and triple it and that should be good enough for most people, or something equally stupid.

1) I’m not a troll and especially not being paid. 2) You are admitting that a wealth tax is divisive. Okay. 3) I guess it’s the company you keep, but most people I know don’t want to be told there is a cap on earnings and potential. You will get a cap on effort and outcomes. Again, as stated before, if you are okay with not trying to continually improve and be cutting edge with innovation and advancement but are okay with maybe 80% of optimal performance, a cap on billionaire might make sense. But what costs will be born from losing ground to other countries who will leapfrog America then? Are they existential threats and costs? To your point is continuing as is business as usual, an existential threat? I don’t believe so, but I respect others who say maybe. I’ve never seen a more toxic culture of America than today (but then again I’m not old enough to have ever owned a loyal donkey)

And who determines how much is needed to live? Who is benchmarking these things and enforcing it? The government? That sounds awfully close to something that is not capitalism cum democracy, but something more, shall we say, centrally planned by a commune?

Let’s say I agree with you, which I don’t, you are simply espousing an opinion. If you wanted to cap people at $1bn, you would have to drastically redefine how America does business. Full stop. It’s not just a financial change for 700 people, it’s a change that cascades throughout the entire DNA of America and America business and economics. It’s a heavy, heavy redesign and reorganization that will take massive amounts of energy and intelligence from people only rivaled by the founding fathers IMO and let me tell you; James Madison ain’t walking through that door and all the genius-level thinkers and leaders are probably more interested in protecting their assets. Any wholesale change will need to be after blood is shed, IMO. These are revolutionary type changes we are talking about here (you and Longhorn), which is why it’s just yahoos online with an emotional opinion and not realistic conversations (lol at capping people at $5m or taking everything after a cliff of $1bn)

Wait so you said my claim was laughable and absurd, while it was actually rooted in logic and facts as they stand currently, and are admitting you are wrong? That’s good of you to admit you don’t know what you are talking about and have zero business intelligence.

I disagree with your opinion that it's perpetuated bs. But besides that: How does a Trillion dollar company not create billionaires? Unless you are implying that the government gets most of the proceeds and ownership or that everyone is entitled to welfare equity in organizations, who owns the trillion dollar companies if not shareholders? And co-founders/early stage financiers that own the shares of a company worth many billions and/or trillions, and an outsized portion of the shares/percentage of the trillion dollar company? How does your math work and how am I missing such an obvious point that what I said was so absurd and misinformed to the tops? Serious question and I expect a serious answer.