Posted on 12/10/2021 4:14:17 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You probably don’t know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries—from itsy-bitsy ones like the night club I started in my 20s to giant ones like Amazon.com, for which I was the first nonfamily investor. Then I founded aQuantive, an Internet advertising company that was sold to Microsoft in 2007 for $6.4 billion. In cash. My friends and I own a bank. I tell you all this to demonstrate that in many ways I’m no different from you. Like you, I have a broad perspective on business and capitalism. And also like you, I have been rewarded obscenely for my success, with a life that the other 99.99 percent of Americans can’t even imagine. Multiple homes, my own plane, etc., etc. You know what I’m talking about. In 1992, I was selling pillows made by my family’s business, Pacific Coast Feather Co., to retail stores across the country, and the Internet was a clunky novelty to which one hooked up with a loud squawk at 300 baud. But I saw pretty quickly, even back then, that many of my customers, the big department store chains, were already doomed. I knew that as soon as the Internet became fast and trustworthy enough—and that time wasn’t far off—people were going to shop online like crazy. Goodbye, Caldor. And Filene’s. And Borders. And on and on.
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"Even the best of us, in the worst of circumstances, are barefoot, standing by a dirt road, selling fruit. We should never forget that, or forget that the United States of America and its middle class made us, rather than the other way around. "
How to stop illegal immigration —Simple. Turn America into a place no one wants to go. Like Cuba and Venezuela! Only one group has power the rest must labor and starve. This will solve everything. We will put up walls to keep American’s from escaping into Freedom in Mexico. All natural resources to be sent to the real world power—China. Collective farms to feed the people of China while Americans starve. Citizenship will be a liability in this new world—all the rich will be “Citizens of the World” and Chinese taught in all schools. To be called an American will be an insult as we go into the New Collective World Culture. Welcome Comrades! Biden is leading us to a new world Order.
Exactly! Get government out of the mix. The founders would be sickened at what people put with government-intrusion-wise.
I too would like an M1
They each have now had their way and have done all they have wanted to do and spent all they wanted to spend, more or less, and just look at those same places today. Yikes.
I guess it’s true, if you stay on a road long enough you’ll get to where it goes and now those are some of the last places I would want to go to live or to work today.
And all because of wicked self-deception, politics and consequences.
Because, once you get to where those roads go, there is no escape, only consequences.
We puny humans can’t change or break the rules the world runs by.
All we can do is demonstrate how they work as they either correct us or break us if and when we try it our way, instead.
Do you really believe we’ll have to wait another 7 years to find or figure this out?
I doubt we’ll even have another 7 years unless we turn around and head back soon, so why not now?
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