EPTAs with a lot of words, the technical definitions of "rape" / "pedophilia" and the common usage aren't the same, and that's alright.
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Geiko
France1949 Posts
As with a lot of words, the technical definitions of "rape" / "pedophilia" and the common usage aren't the same, and that's alright. | ||
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baal
10545 Posts
On February 24 2026 14:56 KwarK wrote: Phrasing it as “beating the 500 most successful companies” is extremely dishonest. The more accurate way of phrasing it would be “beating the returns given passively to afk investors who loan capital to a group of companies chosen arbitrarily without active research by the investor”. We’re not talking about a genius CEO here. And we’re not talking about a genius stock picker. We’re talking about the performance a 401k plan invested in the default large cap index fund plan gives someone working at mcdonald’s. That’s the bar Trump failed to clear. Give any one of us his inheritance and 50 years to compound and we’ll do better. If you really think that you couldn’t then that says more about you than Trump. If you gave me 100M to fund my entrepreneurship I'm not certain I would be able to turn it into a few billion, I might, I might fall short or I might even lose it, but if I were to pull it off, and on the side manage to be a 2 term president, and someone were to tell me I haven't achieved anything in my life I would laugh in their face. But I'm sure you personally would become a billionaire and the first three term president, compounding SP500 has nothing on you, shine on you crazy diamond. What is extremely dishonest is that you compare compounding interest to regular living, Trump didnt get his 100M and didnt spend a dime till he was 70, he spent hundreds and hundreds of millions along the way. | ||
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maybenexttime
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1198 Posts
On February 24 2026 16:35 maybenexttime wrote: Claiming that making things actively worse is a sign of business acumen is certainly an interesting take. ;-) I know this is not exactly relevant to the topic at hand. But "making things actively worse", then holding some measure of the old things hostage is the business model of the modern AAA gaming company, real estate companies, and any other business that is making things you used to buy now for rent/subscription. Sadly, it IS business acumen these days. The modern rediscovery that rent seeking behaviour is really really profitable. | ||
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Hat Trick of Today
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With regards to Trump and his investing history, it’s kinda like Epstein in that I don’t think there was any evidence that they were actually good at their legitimate day jobs. But there sure are a whole load of evidence that both peoples got incredibly wealthy by through malignant financial activity. I guess we could consider that to be a symbol of financial success but I’m not sure if it’s something anyone should consider to be admirable. I can’t say that I can beat Trump if I were given his fortune because I wouldn’t have the connections and knowledge to engage in the sort of financial shenanigans, exploitation and fraud these sort of rich guys engage in day in and day out. The best I can do is earn enough from pandemic era investments to pay for my house deposit. | ||
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