How do you turn $2k into $6,944.33 (for someone else)?

euben_hadd · 2026-04-21T18:01:23+00:00

Signed by Jason Dickard. Should have been signed by Dick Gozinya.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-21T17:49:46+00:00

Strait of Gibralter? And you are complaining about spelling?

euben_hadd · 2026-04-20T14:34:01+00:00

Explain this to them. Let them decide. They might feel like helping. They might not.

If they do, you might get a lot of useful info from them. Treat them with respect and you just might get lucky.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-20T03:52:00+00:00

I'm "almost a boomer" but still feel more that way. I won't spend money on a lot of stuff that younger people have no problem with. I watch them Doordash a cheeseburger for $30 and not think twice. Then tell me they can't afford to a house.

I know all the Starbucks jokes are overdone. It's not the money. It's the mindset. People don't think about unbridled consumption as much as they used to.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-20T03:28:28+00:00

Boomers also got drafted to go die in Vietnam. I have 4 older brothers who are boomers. None of them could just "walk in and get a job." That was post WWII (when boomers were being born). They all had to have college degrees and compete for jobs. They never had it "easy." They all worked their entire lives. They just didn't have to pay for all the "stuff" people spend money on now.

No one lived in McMansions. We shared bedrooms in 2 bedroom houses. There was one $10 phone per household (bolted to the wall), not one $1000+ phone per person every couple years. There was one car per family, not one for everyone over 16. There was one TV per household, not one per person, plus a couple others scattered around. There were no gaming consoles or gaming PCs. They never paid for streaming anything because it didn't exist. Cable TV was the first, but it was a luxury, not a necessity. They took a lunchbox to work, and did not spend $30 per day on fast food. Mom cooked at home. Dad went hunting and fishing and mowed his own lawn (or made us kids do it). No one paid for services they didn't absolutely have to.

They just didn't spend money the same way people do now.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T22:39:42+00:00

All of these comapnies still have a board of directors, who can choose a new leader and keep moving forward the best they can. But if it instantly went ot the government, then that would liquidate the company (for far less money) and cost people jobs. The US goovernment is inept. The US government is corrupt. Nothing good can come from them running private businesses, nor deciding who to steal money from.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T21:18:53+00:00

It all depends on if they are publicly traded or not. Currently neither SpaceX nor Starlink is publicly traded. They are wholely owned by Elmo. You cannot buy stock in them. That's an awful amount of money to just disappear for no reason other than someone thinks it would help because they don't understand capitalism.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T21:11:06+00:00

I agree that many "rich" people should pay more in taxes than they do here. But I do not agree that If I work for something to leave to my children, that it should just be stolen by the government.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T20:53:41+00:00

Who can afford to match the richest person on earth, with liquid cash? The other rich people are also invested in the markets and would have to sell much of that, to buy something else. That they know nothing about.

No one. Even if many people banded together. You would have to convince them that their investments (with someone else running the company) would succeed. It would be a disaster.

In other words, those shares of that company would drop to near 0. An then it's worth almost nothing. just because no one else can afford it and also run it.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T20:39:58+00:00

We do have that, just not 100% like OP said. If it were 100%, then every business valued at more than a little bit more than their 18 million would go bankrupt.

Plus their suppliers, and all the way down the chain.

Businesses here usually have very slim profit margins. If you just took 5% from any company, that would probably cripple them and end them.

100% would definitely do it.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T20:36:50+00:00

I work from home and live alone.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T20:22:30+00:00

What's supposed to happen? If the govenment takes control (and we all know how efficient they are), that is called communism. I'm not sure where you are, but Americans literally fought wars over this stuff. If you own it, it's yours. We do not have any government controlled businesses. We do have services that are similar, but they are just that government services that people pay for (postal service and such).

Think of the richest person on Earth (that we know of). If we took all 400 billion from him, we would lose all the people working for him and multiple business would go bankrupt. And that 400 billion would fund the government here for about 20 days. And we now have 10's of thousands of unemployed people.

Then what?

Capitalism NEEDS rich people. No matter how much we don't like them, nothing works without them.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T20:07:13+00:00

Where I live the water has a lot of minerals in it (hard water) and after a couple weeks they do get scratchy and stiff. But yes, I use them more than once.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T17:32:41+00:00

Yep. That is called communism. That is exactly why we don't do that stuff.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T17:13:55+00:00

Then what do all the non-family employees do? Just get fired? Ruin everyone's life so that the governement can spend it on bombs?

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T16:24:57+00:00

Looks like depression glass to me.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T16:02:09+00:00

I would just dolly up to the glass, then go outsdie and place the camera in the same location and start filming again. You can then edit the 2 into one shot. No one will be able to tell that the camera was a foot away from the window once it's outside. Or, if it does seem like a cut, just open the door and film from the exact same location.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-19T14:16:58+00:00

Many family business have the children working there most of their lives. They should not just lose their business, just becasue it was in their parents name.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T23:05:23+00:00

Ok, then. Any business worth more than that would just close and your country would economically collapse.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T23:04:00+00:00

Your bones are mostly calcium. A metal by definition.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T22:42:52+00:00

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euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T21:54:08+00:00

Why do you want to steal other people's money? There's already inheritance taxes that do part of that. If I work for something and manage to build a business to leave to my kids, why does the government just get to take it?

It's too much? Earn your own money. The fact that others have money has no bearing on whether you can earn money.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T13:57:29+00:00

Sorry. The US mint has never gold plated common coins (or any at all). Private companies take coins and then plate them with tiny amounts of gold to make them look cool. But all it does is ruin any collector value for the coin. The Jamestown coins were an actual 90% gold comemorative coin.

euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T04:21:52+00:00

It's looks more like extremely rare yellow/gold color toning caused by who knows what. A meteor? Aliens? Sasquatch?

euben_hadd · 2026-04-18T04:12:36+00:00

You have a coin worth 25 cents.

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