http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/12/15/high_school_investor_didn_t_make_72_million_picking_stocks_after_all.html
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
my goodness
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
well i never
― gr8080, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
the true mystery is why ny magazine thought a kid making millions in the stock market was a thing worthy of love
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I'll get encyclopedia brown on that one
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
In hindsight, it is a bit suspicious that he claimed to have made $72 million on Jukt Micronics stock.
― My Name Is You (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
It's a bit suspicious that he claimed to have made $72 million on virtually anything starting with the kind of seed money a regular kid from queens would probably have to play with. Like that sounds like it would have to be by far the most successful trading in history.
― man alive, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
yes the whole thing was absurd
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
you'd have to be like seth rogen in undeclared good
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
I do like how his parents just let him embarrass himself as they quietly disowned him in the background, though
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if you could get that kind of return if you traveled back in time.
― man alive, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
You could
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
time travel wld do it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
kid shdve claimed to be a time traveler that really wldve been something to love about ny
best bagels. best space-time fabric manipulators. best pastrami sandwiches. what's not to love? i <3 NY.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
― man alive, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:11 PM (2 hours ago)
notttt really. i mean obv the reporters should have done a better job but as a reader it's not outside the realm of possibility. kid goes to stuyvesant, has super-rich parents, been playing with stocks since he was 9, it's believable
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
I thought they reported that the parents weren't super-rich, though.
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
This reminded me of an old joke about robbing banks because that’s where the money is. Damir grinned. “My father has a quote,” he said. “It’s really dope: ‘You can rob a bank with a gun, but you can rob the whole world with a bank.’ ”
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
oh maybe they did
not that it's not far fetched, it's just the kind of thing where you're like "ok, if this were to happen it would be some asshole stuy kid with really rich parents". my girlfriend went to stuy and she rolled her eyes when she heard about this and was like "of course"
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
http://underdesign.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bankrobworld.jpg?w=700&h=345
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NF0XA7Tewdc/Ue0iW0jvbYI/AAAAAAAAIbM/GWtcMkKmeQE/s640/86.jpg
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtklYHiCYAAxHX6.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/20759987/disp/deaf16c3d2acd923ecd1937d4ba80eec.jpg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.13971911.7556/fig,forest,mens,ffffff.u1.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
http://thewoodchips.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Give-A-Man-A-Gun-r12-450.jpg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
https://hateandanger.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/give-a-man-a-gun-and-he-can-rob-a-bank-give-a-man-a-bank-and-he-can-rob-the-world-white-house-this-way-homeless-people.jpg
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
~some lying ass kids dad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
note to self don't give a man a bank
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
helen hunt was doing so well
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
now she prbly makes about $66k as a credit officer I hope she has good bennies
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
give a gun a bank who knows how much robbing it'll do
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
and paul reiser is the loan officer of that bank
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
my dad said, "i gave a bank to rob. he meant the world to me"
― $80 is absurd and very ridiculous! (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
you don't understand, bank is the name of my dog
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
a bankrupt bank robber robs a bank with a gun; a gunner banks rob and runs
-- robin banks
― (曇り) (clouds), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 07:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.robinbanks.co.za/
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
His provocative suggestion is that the authorities would find a self-consciously simulated (i.e. not real) bank robbery more dangerous than the "real" thing. The latter merely transgresses the law of property, which in turn reaffirms the ediface of the criminal justice system. The simulated robbery, however, makes visible the law of simulation; it exposes the absence of a basic reality and the constructed nature of the hyperreal.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 08:27 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Cwm9nWj.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
I'm glad I've been to Cuba multiple times before the Starbucks and whatnot. I wish there was a middle ground between people having basic freedoms and not being rampaged by lots of Wal Marts.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A bit simply put, perhaps, but on point
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
just spitballin here but maybe cuba could be turned into a museum for americans disgusted at their economic system to tour multiple times
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
btw idk how starbucks became the symbol for the excesses of american capitalism but its inadequate to the point that it makes you think maybe people are just complaining about their consumer options
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
I've seen one Walmart in my life. Until you get to about $15k GDP per capita most multi-nationals dgaf.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
walmart is fwiw a much better symbol of the problems w 21st century capitalism, anyway i heard a similar sentiment as van horns expressed multiple times on twitter today and it comes off mostly as a complaint about a big store ruining the view
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
is starbucks a bad corporation? i've never heard a lot shitty about them
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
would they sell Cuban rum at this Walmart in Pinar del Rio?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Starbucks brownies are good
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
they pay shit (but who doesn't). can't remember if they offer any kind of insurance or benefits. ime the worst aspect of working there was dealing w/ the preening fussiness of the customers.
― (曇り) (clouds), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
iirc they are known for offering pretty good insurance/benefits
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
the left-wing critique is usually on fair trade stuff / killing small businesses
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link