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  • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
    So, they're pulling up stakes? Does that mean Alaska will join Puerto Rico on Trump's **** list?
    No, selling off all their assets (oil field leases, equipment, buildings etc.) for $5.6 billion to Hilcorp.
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    • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

      Per Darren Rovell:
      August 29, 1997: Netflix launches DVD service.

      2000: Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO) approaches John Antico (former Blockbuster CEO), offers to sell for $50M Antico declines.

      August 29, 2019: Netflix has 155 million subscribers and is worth $131 billion. There is 1 Blockbuster.
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      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

        My first financial mistake was not being born into a wealthy family. It's been all downhill since.
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        • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

          Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
          My first financial mistake was not being born into a wealthy family. It's been all downhill since.
          The Plan is to fix that by marrying into one. Unfortunately, most rich people, and virtually all children of rich people, are so morally and intellectually bankrupt that no amount of money is worth being near them. This is why they pair off.
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          • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            The Plan is to fix that by marrying into one. Unfortunately, most rich people, and virtually all children of rich people, are so morally and intellectually bankrupt that no amount of money is worth being near them. This is why they pair off.
            True story. When I was a child, I went to a church in the Muskegon suburbs. If you weren't Norton Shores wealthy, you were overlooked at best.
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            • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

              Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
              True story. When I was a child, I went to a church in the Muskegon suburbs. If you weren't Norton Shores wealthy, you were overlooked at best.
              Just like Jesus wanted.
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              • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Just like Jesus wanted.
                Wasn't until I started going to churches in the city that my (lack of) income didn't matter.

                If I wanted to be rich, I should have gone for an MBA. Instead, I'm chasing an MSW.
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                • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                  Can someone explain to me WHY after the Tax Cuts and 84 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump that the economy isn't screaming right now?

                  The concept that this is true has been drilled into every American's skull since 1980. Why isn't the President on the TV right now explaining WHY his trickle down economics are not working? Enquiring minds want to know.

                  Also, since Climate Change isn't real why is Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic Circle melting? I don't get it. Are they lying? President's don't lie, (I just posted a video to that affect this morning).

                  By the way. Every moron who sold this ****ing economic bull**** can all DIE. Just DIE. You're a stain on humanity.
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                  • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                    Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                    Can someone explain to me WHY after the Tax Cuts and 84 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump that the economy isn't screaming right now?
                    Probably for the same reason that supply side and deregulation have failed in every real life situation in which they have been applied in history.

                    Because they were an obvious con for the rich to rip off the rest of us.

                    As liberals have said since 1978.
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                    • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                      Can someone explain to me WHY after the Tax Cuts and 84 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump that the economy isn't screaming right now?

                      The concept that this is true has been drilled into every American's skull since 1980. Why isn't the President on the TV right now explaining WHY his trickle down economics are not working? Enquiring minds want to know.

                      Also, since Climate Change isn't real why is Greenland, Antarctica, and the Arctic Circle melting? I don't get it. Are they lying? President's don't lie, (I just posted a video to that affect this morning).

                      By the way. Every moron who sold this ****ing economic bull**** can all DIE. Just DIE. You're a stain on humanity.
                      More appropriately, why isn't every Democrat on tv screaming about how with all those tax cuts, and business being no longer strangled by "burdensome" regulations that promote worker safety and environmental protections, the economy isn't steaming along at Trump's promised 5% growth rate?


                      I mean, 5% growth was supposed to be easy.
                      What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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                      • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                        Originally posted by joecct View Post
                        Per Darren Rovell:
                        August 29, 1997: Netflix launches DVD service.

                        2000: Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO) approaches John Antico (former Blockbuster CEO), offers to sell for $50M Antico declines.

                        August 29, 2019: Netflix has 155 million subscribers and is worth $131 billion. There is 1 Blockbuster.
                        Already a B school case study classic.

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                        • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                          Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                          Already a B school case study classic.
                          My favorite business case study is the entire North American video game market imploding in 1983.

                          All kinds of crazy shiat going on there. Everyone and their brother tried to hop on the gravy train and the result was a tsunami of questionable product until consumers threw their hands up and the market collapsed under its own weight. Quaker Oats had a farking video game division. It was mayhem.

                          Something like a 97% market devaluation in 1 year.
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                          • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                            Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                            My favorite business case study is the entire North American video game market imploding in 1983.

                            All kinds of crazy shiat going on there. Everyone and their brother tried to hop on the gravy train and the result was a tsunami of questionable product until consumers threw their hands up and the market collapsed under its own weight. Quaker Oats had a farking video game division. It was mayhem.

                            Something like a 97% market devaluation in 1 year.
                            Basically, the original Dot Com Boom.

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                            • Re: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

                              Originally posted by rufus View Post
                              More appropriately, why isn't every Democrat on tv screaming about how with all those tax cuts, and business being no longer strangled by "burdensome" regulations that promote worker safety and environmental protections, the economy isn't steaming along at Trump's promised 5% growth rate?


                              I mean, 5% growth was supposed to be easy.
                              I think the simplest answer is because the dems with the most power (Pelosi and Schumer) are typical dems who suck at messaging and pretty much always adopt the right wing's framing of most issues (whereas AOC is far better at pointing out the flaws in their logic and breaking down how silly those talking points are). The longer answer would be that they have to thread a needle because ultimately I think their donors want to just maintain the status quo and the trajectory of the Obama economy which they perceive as good enough (which is where it's at now essentially) while also decrying the tax cuts that didn't help the average person in any way.

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                              • Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                                My favorite business case study is the entire North American video game market imploding in 1983.

                                All kinds of crazy shiat going on there. Everyone and their brother tried to hop on the gravy train and the result was a tsunami of questionable product until consumers threw their hands up and the market collapsed under its own weight. Quaker Oats had a farking video game division. It was mayhem.

                                Something like a 97% market devaluation in 1 year.
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