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Fuelman » Today, 12:43 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 12:43 pm

People get richer than other countries mainly because of  property limitations and ownership within that country. Must suck to live there!

Yes, Walmart is definitely an outlier but a perfect example of the use of volume to create immense wealth. My guess is that AOC has no idea or she wouldn't have made the statement. Whatever endeavor an entrepreneur goes after must understand this key to success. IMHO.

Not one restaurant, 50 restaurants.

Buffet?
Supposedly, Buffet will give away 99% of his wealth. That deserves a statue somewhere.

Turner?
Don't know much about him but did find this interesting.

Billboard Advertising: Turner took over Turner Outdoor Advertising in 1963 after his father's death, turning the company around and expanding it.

That was my grandfather's job in Kansas. Plastering new Media on those roadside billboards. Went out with him in the late 60's, collect the scrapped off media and have a bonfire with fresh mators and bologna sandwiches for lunch. Life was much simpler back then. I wasn't having a fit due to no Internet connection.

I scratched up as much as I could along the way, it is what it is. The size of some rich guys bank account really wouldn't change that outcome even if government took all his money. What would I get? A few pennies?

I think you are still talking about something else. I am discussing the relative merits of our financial (economic) system - specifically with regard to the minting of bilionaires. 

It seems to me there is something wrong with a system where the money comes in through labyrinthine mechanisms that favor billionaires over the common person. When billionaires decided that the common herd must beta test mRNI "vaccines" (they had to change the definition to call it that), their servants in government started bullying and threatening. Millions lined up like dumb cows and did what they were told. The all cause mortality rate among working people has skyrocketed in the aftermath.

If I had tried to disconnect from the grid in Las Vegas, men with guns would have come to my home and warned me. If I had persisted, they would have used to the state's power - up to homicide, if I had remained defiant - to force compliance. I was BUffett's customer, by God and by law, whether I liked it or not, no matter how much solar power I could produce and no matter my desire to be free of him. I had to pay at LEAST the connection charge.

The billionaire class can order the overthrow of government, and people will DEFEND that. @Deezer Shoove  on this very board this very merry month of may 
has insisted that venezuela HAD to be brought to heel as it had transgressed against our billionaires. And how did deezer know this? Why, the offended parties saw to it that he knew it. They control the media that haccesses. They buy and pay for the dissemination of the narratives he consumes. 

The billionaire class decided a decade back that it would be a nice way to fart in God's face if they could get morons in America to agree with men going into their daughters' showers and competing with them in sports. The uncounted millions of insults to decency and womanhood that have flowed from this will be impossible to redress. 

The question remains - can a person truly "earn" a billion dollars? What about a trillion? Should there be a line beyond which we stop playing dumb and admit that there is something rotten in the State of Denmark? Can we agree to draw the line at half a trillion?