LIFE

csanyk

> Furthermore, you're making wild assumptions and gesticulations towards slavery even though it is an entirely different concept (forced labor is not the same as market-defined labor, this is quite clear to any rational person), and overall it is just exhausting watching you weave these tales. No, I put the slavery issue squarely in front of you to see what you'd say about it, because the arguments you're using to justify exploitative endgame capitalism are pretty much in line with the economic argument for slavery before the war, that it was economically necessary, that slavery couldn't end because the economic consequences would be so dire that continuing the institution of slavery is better. I'm glad you apparently draw the line at slavery. Now you can learn to look at current day business practices with open eyes and see that a better world is possible. And no, I'm not even talking about communism or socialism. Capitalism could remain capitalism and still treat the people at the bottom better than it does, and it wouldn't impose a great hardship on those at the top. Do you still deny it? > If there is de-flation, should wages go down then? Why is that a question? Is deflation happening, or likely? And if deflation did happen, isn't it inevitable that wages would go down? You seem to assume that a dollar has a definite, fixed value. It doesn't. It has a negotiable value. A dollar is a unit of value. The exact value is undefined, and is constantly being re-defined every time a dollar is spent. A dollar in 1963 had a different value from a dollar in 2025. A dollar spent at a concert venue has a different value from a dollar spent at Costco. A dollar in downtown NYC has a different value from a dollar in Bangladesh, or on a lifeboat at sea. If every piece of currency ever printed suddenly had two extra zeroes appended to the end of their denomination, absolutely nothing would change. If the money supply shrinks, wages go down, if supply and demand for goods and services remain constant, the spending power of a dollar increases. We lose the ability to break units smaller, so at the bottom end there's some adjustment to be made -- either minimum quantities of cheaper-than-penny items goes up, or maybe there's some things that you pay relatively more for, or maybe some products aren't viable because they're not worth a penny and people don't want to buy more than one at a time; etc. So it's not just about paying workers more money, it's about the proportions and about increasing the supply or quality of things people buy with money. Ultra-wealthy people distort the economy to the detriment of everyone else. Their companies constantly look for ways to make their products inferior, so they can increase profit margins and sales: things that break or become obsolete or need replacement faster. Look at the way the quality of common retail goods has decreased over time, to where things are no longer worth fixing, or aren't even repairable at all. Refrigerators used to last 30 years, now you are lucky to get 10 out of one. Etc. > The fact of the matter is that saying you defined living wage by pegging it to the "buying power a person needs to have a LIFE that is worth living" is completely nonsensical. What you call "driving down the price of labor" is just price discovery, again you should be very familiar with this since we're on a stocks subreddit. Saying "it's just price discovery" is one way to put it. "Race to the bottom" is another. It's not just price discovery. It's price fixing: The ultra wealthy class have undermined the political power of the working class, and have been doing it for decades. Unions that were once strong, are now weak. Collective bargaining made it possible for the lower rungs of the economic ladder to negotiate better pay, better working conditions. That's been steadily eroded for as long as you've been alive. > You keep referring to this "hoarding" concept like he's sitting on a pile of cash. Once again, we are in a stock subreddit, I hope you would understand that this his net worth is simply representative of his stake in the company and not just piles of cash Wealth is wealth. Buying power is buying power. Bezos can buy virtually unlimited mansions with his buying power. That's wealth. Whether he's sitting on a pile of cash or a pile of stock isn't particularly relevant. He takes joyrides in a spaceship. He has a $500 million dollar yacht. He obtained those somehow. People didn't just give it to him because he holds stock in Amazon worth $270 billion and no cash. He bought the things. A big reason why Bezos isn't sitting on a big pile of cash is due to the way taxes work. It's a tax shelter for him to sit on unrealized capital gains, and use stock holdings as collateral to secure loans that he can then spend in exactly the same way he would spend it if he had sold the stock for cash. Except he gets to keep the cash, and he only pays the interest on the loan, and the taxes on the amount of money he has to convert stock holdings to to pay that interest is a tiny fraction of what he'd have to pay if he had to realize capital gains for the full amount of the money. That's legal, currently, but it's not good. You'd argue that it is good, but you'd be wrong. The moment stock is put up as collateral, that should be understood as a realization of capital gains, and should be a taxable event. But since it isn't, Bezos wins. If he had to pay taxes on all that, the money would circulate back through the economy, generating value each time it exchanges hands. Bezos might have to settle for a less expensive yacht. But the economic activity generated by the flow of money would bring benefit to many more people, enabling them to live better lives. Meanwhile people work in countries like Bangladesh and China produce products sold through his website and make pennies a day. It's obscene. You really can't believe that it's impossible to improve their standard of living or that they cannot be paid more. Of course it's possible. > he can hand out to employees or whoever you think Bezos has wronged on any particular day. I don't "think it" it's not an opinion, it's a fact. Look at labor practices at Amazon. Look at labor practices in the cheap labor nations that produce much of what is sold through Amazon. Tell me what a great benefactor Bezos is to their lives, or if there wasn't a Bezos there'd just be a different rich person doing the same thing to them. That's bull, and you know it. > Furthermore, if you bothered to even look into Amazon's retail financials, the margin is razor thin. So, the idea they can just raise wages without raising prices is fanciful. Amazon's net profit margin for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ending June 30, 2026, is 17.44%, heavily driven by high-margin segments like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and digital advertising. https://www.investing.com/analysis/amazons-3-trillion-breakout-vanished--but-the-fundamentals-didnt-200685877 Annual Profit Margin Trend Amazon’s profitability metrics have significantly expanded over the last three fiscal years due to infrastructure efficiencies and revenue mix adjustments: * 2025 Annual Net Margin: 10.83% (Net Income: $77.67B on $716.92B Revenue) * 2024 Annual Net Margin: 9.29% (Net Income: $59.25B on $637.96B Revenue) * 2023 Annual Net Margin: 5.29% (Net Income: $30.43B on $574.79B Revenue) Margin Breakdown (TTM 2026) Profitability varies widely depending on which layer of the income statement is measured: * Gross Profit Margin: 50.77% — Reflects core retail sales minus direct cost of goods sold (COGS). * Operating Margin: 13.69% — Reflects corporate profit after accounting for distribution, fulfillment, and technology development costs. * Net Profit Margin: 17.44% — The final bottom-line margin available to common shareholders, which recently benefited from non-operating valuation adjustments.Amazon (AMZN) Annual Net Profit Margin Trend20232024202505105.299.2910.83 Key Margin Drivers * Cloud Computing (AWS): Serves as the primary operational margin engine, boasting specialized operating margins near 39.4% due to rapid AI workload expansion. * Advertising Services: High-margin sponsored listings and media placements outpace legacy physical retail fulfillment margins. * Seller Ecosystem Note: While Amazon as a corporation clears roughly 10%–17% net, independent merchants using the platform typically operate on average net profit margins of 15% to 25% after factoring in marketplace referral and FBA fulfillment fees. They have plenty of room in their margins to pay everyone on the bottom a bit more and enable them to enjoy a better standard of living. > That is why I keep saying if you think it's so easy, go start the business! I've already addressed that. It's not that it's easy for someone else to start an Amazon-but-with-human-centered-ethics. It's that it would be easy for Bezos to be a better human being and treat the people he employees more like humans, and he chooses not to, because that's better for his net worth. That's the argument. That's why your point is asinine. > There are millions of trade-offs and you can't force Bezos or other Amazon leadership to make certain decisions, so if you are so confident they went in the wrong direction you are free to run the "experiment" yourself and re-distribute whatever wealth you end up with in the process. Yeah, the reason Bezos can't be forced by someone like me is because the system concentrates power as well as wealth into his hands. In a system where people with the wealth of Bezos have the money to influence politicians, they make themselves untouchable. And that makes possible all kinds of evil. We could have laws that protect the rights of the lower classes, like we're supposed to. That's what we're promised.

Bossdude234

I'm not gonna respond to everything here because it seems you've taken the incredulous stance of actually leaning into the fairy tale rather than trying to make up for it, which is funny in and of itself. Furthermore, you're making wild assumptions and gesticulations towards slavery even though it is an entirely different concept (forced labor is not the same as market-defined labor, this is quite clear to any rational person), and overall it is just exhausting watching you weave these tales. > I didn't need to provide that definition, because people already know what they mean when they use the term. You want me to put a number on that, why? Because I already refuted, if I pick a number, that number becomes further and further out of date the more inflation devalues it. If there is de-flation, should wages go down then? The fact of the matter is that saying you defined living wage by pegging it to the "buying power a person needs to have a LIFE that is worth living" is completely nonsensical. What you call "driving down the price of labor" is just price discovery, again you should be very familiar with this since we're on a stocks subreddit. > But you identify with him. You think you live in "the real world". Drive a forklift for $8/hr, that's real world. Burn toxic e-waste so you can sift through the ashes for bits of gold plate. It's funny you mention this because even though my day job is a SWE, my business is all manual labor and thus I have spanned the spectrum of types of work. I neither entirely identify with Bezos nor do I entirely identify with "blue collar" laborers, I take both views and distill what is correct and incorrect from both. I would suggest you try and expand your worldview instead of armchair CEO-ing as you put it. > Plenty of people own businesses without being hoarders of hundred billion fortunes. It would actually be very easy for Bezos to choose not to, if he wanted. It would be far easier for him to choose to pay his employees closer to the value they generate for the business, or at least enough for them to live a comfortable, modestly affluent standard of living, than it would be for any other person on the planet to create a Bizzrro-Amazon that does that for him, to show that he could have done it all along. You keep referring to this "hoarding" concept like he's sitting on a pile of cash. Once again, we are in a stock subreddit, I hope you would understand that this his net worth is simply representative of his stake in the company and not just piles of cash he can hand out to employees or whoever you think Bezos has wronged on any particular day. Furthermore, if you bothered to even look into Amazon's retail financials, the margin is razor thin. So, the idea they can just raise wages without raising prices is fanciful. That is why I keep saying if you think it's so easy, go start the business! There are millions of trade-offs and you can't force Bezos or other Amazon leadership to make certain decisions, so if you are so confident they went in the wrong direction you are free to run the "experiment" yourself and re-distribute whatever wealth you end up with in the process.

csanyk

Nah, you're clueless. You should be embarrassed. If we were arguing in 1850, you'd claim that slavery was necessary, and that if abolitionists were so sure that it was wrong, why then they could "easily" set up paid labor plantations and outcompete slave plantations on business performance. It's a bogus argument, and you know it is. There are economic incentives for a business owner to pay their labor zero if they can, and if they can, they will. "That's just good business!" you say. Well, if you're not embarrassed to take the position that Jeff Bezos owes the world nothing because he's already given the world wonderful glorious Amazon and he deserves to cruise planet earth in spaceships and two mega yachts, while his employees can hope for no better than to pee in a bottle because the warehouse is so big that it would take almost all of their 15 minute break to make it to a proper bathroom, and they shouldn't have air conditioning in the warehouse because it's not economical to keep it below 90F, and it's fine because anyway we won't need human labor for warehouse work much longer at the pace robotics and AI are replacing humans... well you probably don't do any work, and just own stocks. > Actually when you pay someone, you do need to define what their wage is gonna be lmao. People do not just know what you mean by "living wage". We have a federal minimum wage so clearly some sort of wage standard tied to the dollar is enshrined in law. Let's see if you actually explain what it means... You completely ignored the part where I **DID** define what living wage is, *in terms of what buying power a person needs to have a LIFE that is worth living.* **I** didn't need to provide that definition, because people **already** know what they mean when they use the term. You want me to put a number on that, why? Because I already refuted, if I pick a number, that number becomes further and further out of date the more inflation devalues it. > "A life worth living" is very vague, does that include various pieces of technology? A boat? A condo, or a house, or a very large house?? Should the wage provide enough to eat at a restaurant for every meal, or once a week, or not at all? 100% strawman BS. People define for themselves what makes life worth living. It's purposefully vague, because, in aggregate, people (you know, "the free market") define it. You know there was a US Supreme Court Justice who once said that he couldn't define what obscenity is precisely, but he knows it when he sees it? Well, it's the same thing with standards of living. You know poverty and hardship when you see it. A person who is fully employed shouldn't be living near poverty, *when the person who owns their company zips around earth in a personal spaceship and two megayachts.* > I'm simply someone who lives in the real world who, as a owner of a small business, has to decide what my employees wages are and not based on some fairy tale "livable wage" that can't even be defined. Yeah, OK Mr. Real World. First of all, you don't decide what your employees wages are. That's decided by a variety of factors: legal minimum wage, the job market, your business revenue. The truth is you pay your employees the least you can, and if you could pay them less, you could. You think it would be immoral not to. Whatever that amount is, isn't all that important. You're also not Jeff Bezos, a man who clearly has the means to pay his low-level employees a good deal more than he does, and chooses not to. You've chosen to blind yourself to the stories of Amazon employees and how they are treated and how they're compensated. You think you're more like Bezos than you are like the guy in the warehouse or the lady driving the delivery van. Your net worth as a small business owner is way closer to zero, and way closer to the net worth of the warehouse worker, than it will ever be to Bezos'. But you identify with him. You think you live in "the real world". Drive a forklift for $8/hr, that's real world. Burn toxic e-waste so you can sift through the ashes for bits of gold plate. > Now imagine on top of that, you have millions of people who complain on how to run your business who have no desire to actually attempt it themselves. Why would it be necessary for anyone to try it themself? Can we criticize murderers, or can we only do so once we've murdered a few people, so we can truly understand how hard it is to murder people more ethically, the way we wish murderers would murder? Can we not say that no one should be murdering anyone? Plenty of people own businesses without being hoarders of hundred billion fortunes. It would actually be very easy for Bezos to choose not to, if he wanted. It would be far easier for him to choose to pay his employees closer to the value they generate for the business, or at least enough for them to live a comfortable, modestly affluent standard of living, than it would be for any other person on the planet to create a Bizzrro-Amazon that does that for him, to show that he could have done it all along. > And I'm saying if it's so easily possible for Amazon to be highly successful and make good profits while providing a "livable wage" (again whatever tf that means in reality), then go do it! "If you think it's so easily possible to run a plantation without slaves, then go do it!" The argument isn't that it's easy to start a business and out-compete Amazon while paying the workers more. It's that the person who owns Amazon could easily pay his bottom tier workers better, and abuse them less, and provide better working conditions, and all it would cost him would maybe be a couple of billion, when he's worth $270 billion. I'm not talking about stripping Bezos of all his wealth, he's entitled to his success... Just not while he's exploiting and abusing his workers. You want to present a hardship case explaining why it's impossible for Bezos to pay his employees more, or work them a little less hard, but still necessary for him to own a space ship and two mega yachts and many mega mansions? You sure you're living in the real world?

Outside_Ad4446

Naaaa pleading guilty for LIFE...

Apple2o

Tempted to slam some monsters and just stay all the way up until 9:30am tomorrow since I GAMBLED MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE TODAY

uber_pro

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA) I CAN FEEL THE ATH COMING IN TONIGHT, OH LORD IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT ALL MY LIFE, OH LORD CAN YOU FEEL THE ATH COMING IN TONIGHT, OH LORD OH LORD WELL IF YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE SHORTING I WOULD NOT LEND A MARGIN IVE SEEN YOUR PORT BEFORE MY FRIEND BUT I DONT KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHO I AM WELL I WAS THERE AND I SAW WHAT YOU BOUGHT I SAW IT WITH MY OWN TWO EYES WIPE OFF THAT GRIN, NO WAY YOU WIN ITS ALL BEEN A PACK OF LIES I CAN FEEL THE ATH COMING IN TONIGHT, OH LORD IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT ALL MY LIFE, OH LORD CAN YOU FEEL THE ATH COMING IN TONIGHT, OH LORD OH LORD

WillingnessMental731

Entire market red but MU is green PRIME LIFE

_Doomer_Wojack_

Uh oh JAPAN’S FOUR LARGEST LIFE INSURERS REPORTED $96 BILLION IN BOND PAPER LOSSES

Moist-Guava-732

THERE ARE 3 THINGS YOU CAN COUNT ON IN LIFE 1. DEATH 2. TAXES https://preview.redd.it/g3pg88rrolhh1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f9c546c94c7ed46894c1b3814dbbee4ad7d9b27

abroadbroadband

How do I get myself back to the place where 🫵 you said: **I WANT SOMETHING ELSE** **TO GET ME THROUGH THIS** # SEMI CHARMED KINDA LIFE baby! baby!

slumdungo

LIFE is slanging insurance based on people being too lazy to call their brokers. Robinhood-esque model. Calls.

botswanahump

SNDK up 6% while MU is literally STRUGGLING FOR LIFE to be just green LMAO love it

Motorbarge

I bought junior gold miners starting before the price of gold jumped. My targets were companies that had a production date, financing and permits. For them, the higher price of gold is a bonus because they were expected to be profitable at the lower price. Once they start producing, they turn profitable fairly quickly. I still look for this type of investment but am careful about waiting for a good price. The major gold miners move based on the price of gold. Production tends to be fairly steady because they usually have more than one mine so one mine producing more is a small change. They also tend to trade at a high price so there can be a lot of downward movement. Gold explorers are a disaster that can take a decade to check all the boxes and they might dilute a lot. I use AI like this: "Assess Soma Gold Corp and include production date and the state of financing" I'm not recommending Soma Gold. It's just an example. The result is this: >**Soma Gold Corp**. (TSXV: SOMA; OTC: SMAGF) is a mining and exploration company focused on gold production, property expansion, and regional exploration in Antioquia, Colombia. **1. Production Date & Operational Status** **Initial Commercial Production / Facilities:** Soma Gold is an established, active producer. Its core operations are anchored by the El Bagre Gold Complex, which includes the El Bagre mill (operating at around 450 tpd) and the adjacent Cordero mine. The company has been in steady commercial production for several years, routing material through its fully permitted milling infrastructure (which has a combined total capacity of 675 tpd and permitted expansion capacity up to 1,400 tpd). **Recent Milestones & Adjustments**: Following a temporary operational disruption and labor strike in late 2025 that impacted output, Soma successfully restarted the El Bagre mill and brought its secondary assets—including the Aurora and El Limon mines—back into active delivery pipelines. Furthermore, the company received formal approval from Colombia's Agencia Nacional de Minería (ANM) to significantly increase production limits at the Aurora property from 25 tons per day (TPD) to 75 TPD, supporting an anticipated volume rebound. **2. State of FinancingRecent Equity Financing:** Soma strengthened its treasury by closing a C$7.5 million non-brokered private placement under the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption (LIFE). **Use of Proceeds**: The capital injection was specifically earmarked to accelerate production growth at the Escondida and Aurora mines, finalize the installation of ore-sorting infrastructure to boost operational margins, fund regional exploration, and supply working capital to pre-pay for ore purchases from localized small-scale legal miners. **Debt and Capital Management:** Soma has actively managed its balance sheet obligations, previously executing major debt-to-equity conversions and cash paydowns to reduce long-term liabilities. While it has faced short-term cash flow contractions tied to the post-strike operational ramp-up and grade variability, the company relies on its ongoing gold sales revenue combined with targeted equity financing to fund its capital expenditure and regional expansion plans.

WoolooOfWallStreet

https://preview.redd.it/e4och3kt0wgh1.jpeg?width=2068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9283f96edbcdb976a855cf7966a7b760980557ed # GET BACK HERE! THIS IS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO THROW YOUR LIFE AWAY!

PooPooPointBoiz

Fuck my life dude. I sold my fuck ass META position at a loss. Only to get into AAPL for earnings, and GOT MY ASS HANDED TO ME THERE TOO. FUCK MY LIFE DUDE. I'm going to fucking KMS if AAPL doesn't go back to 333 by the end of next week.

PooPooPointBoiz

Man, this week has fucked me over so hard. I can't believe earnings fucked me. Regular market trading has fucked me. Jesus christ dude. What I hold, goes down. What I don't buy into or that I sell, goes up. Like clockwork dude, like fucking clockwork. And the worst part? MSFT fucking rocketed. I've had my ass beaten by MSFT for months now for fucking months. And every time I turn my back, it fucking spikes. FUCK MY LIFE DUDE.

PooPooPointBoiz

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK MSFT???? Why the fuck can't it ever do that when I was holding it???? I"m sitting here with my thumb in my ass with goddamn fucking META. FUCKED UP. FUCK MY LIFE

L2F_mens_glutes

I PUT ALL MY LIFE SAVINGS AND MY 401k and MY MOMS 401k and dads all in FOOKEN Nvidia I NEED Nvidia to go to 230 Before 2027 or I am fooked I am 100% all in mayne It’s NYC or the slums of mumbye Alexa plays “ outside “ by staind

deepFnButthole

THUG 4 LIFE ... lets ride on them hos

OptimalEnthusiasm

For DeAR LIFE

Individual-Sea-7777

What is death but full porting into LIFE calls and having them expire worthless?

ValhallaStreetBets

NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.  https://www.crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/ Apparently no one reads their terms and conditions. This shit should not be installed in a hospital

ValhallaStreetBets

https://www.crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/ NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. So why the fuck was it installed in hospitals and airports?

trainwreck001

EVERYTHING 🥭 TOUCHES TURNS TO 💩. THATS THE STORY OF HIS LIFE. WHY WOULD NOW BE ANY DIFFERENT? 

trainwreck001

THE FUTURE OF THE TOP 100 COMPANIES IN THE WORLD RELY ON NVDA AND JENSEN... IF YALL BISHES AINT LOADING THE TRUCK UP WITH NVDA STOCK YOU AINT SERIOUS ABOUT LIFE. THIS IS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY YOU WILL HAVE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR TO CREATE GENERATIONAL WEALTH. SOME OF YOUR ARE THE LAST GENERATION AND THATS OK. LIVE IT UP BISHES. IM KNEE DEEP IN THE 6 MONTH NVDA CHALLENGE AND I HAVE A YACHT TO BUY NEXT SUMMER. IM GONNA LET JENSEN NAME IT WITH A SELFIE. DON'T FORGET THESE WORDS. NVDA $1K 

youarenut

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU APPLES, SQUEEZE THEN LIKE LEMONS $AAPL primed to SQUEEZE 🚀🙏 also meta because why the fuck not AAPL ABOUT TO BREAK OUT MY TRENDLINE CRAYONS

youarenut

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU APPLES, SQUEEZE THEN LIKE LEMONS $AAPL primed to SQUEEZE 🚀🙏 also meta because why the fuck not

ilovethewayyousmile

only up +2% on IWM and I’m already ready to GIVE MY LIFE FOR MISTER RUSSELL 

Powerful-Call5148

PUT MY LIFE SAVINGs IN THE RUSSELL 2000 ETF IWM I AM RICH, I AM RICH, I AM RICH!

ilovethewayyousmile

JENSEN, I NEED A PROOF OF LIFE PICTURE WITH TODAY’S PAPER ASAP 

facforlife

He didn't hit the ear he hit the glass which shattered and hit the ear.  >Very impressive for a kid who wears glasses in a situation where he would have struggled to control his heart rate and breathing. That aiming was decent from that distance.   Yeah you know if Blackrock, the fucking megacorp with limitless resources, actually did hire someone to assassinate Trump I don't think they're looking at a failure thinking of all the handicaps the kid had and saying "wow yeah he did a pretty good job all things considered!" I think they'd prioritize results.  Which a FUCKING 20 YEAR OLD WHO'S NEVER KILLED ANYONE IN HIS LIFE WOULDN'T HAVE.  You are a fucking moron. 

fomoandyoloandnogrow

Lmao the guy who shot at Trump was named “Crooks”? LMAO FOX NEWS GONNA HAVE THE BEST DAYS OF THEIR LIFE THIS WEEK EXPLOITING THAT NAME

hitandruntrader

FUCK LIFE - ALL-IN iwm calls

Pleasant_Gold_3634

💥LIFE HACK 💥 If you’re down 10k just deposit 10k and you’re back to even 

ilovethewayyousmile

Now that only REAL BOUT THAT LIFE NVDA GANG MEMBERS remain SEND IT TO $140 

ilovethewayyousmile

BERS GET A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY ASAP, AT LEAST THEY’LL PAY UR FAMILY WHEN WE HUNT U AT OPEN 

OneiceT

So buy call at open, exit after some profit and buy put on Friday. I WILL DO IT WITH MY LIFE SAVING, YOU BETTER DO NOT BE WRONG OR YOU WILL HAVE BLOOD IN YOUR HAND

DetroitSportsKillMe

These 569s showing LIFE

adeel06

Fuckin been holding AMD for weeks and sold literally a day before the pop I knew was coming. Fuck my life. FUCK MY LIFE

avwitcher

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

L2F_mens_thickcheeks

#DONT LIVE THE SAME YEAR 65 TIMES AND CALL IT LIFE… Dame INVEST IN TESLA NOW AND GET RICH OR DIE TRYING !! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🛥🛥🛥

Dismal_While579

Their PRO LIFE choices, u got it wrong, correct for next 

HomerGymson

You’re not alone, but I’d say you shouldn’t “worry” That is, you should DO things like putting money into your Roth, 401k, HYSA, etc. set it and forget it with auto contributions and then focus on LIFE with the money you have left. You’re doing great things to set up your future success, and because you have your bases covered, you don’t need to worry as much as your 22 self maybe should have - you’re doing the right stuff now and should be PROUD.

Hour-Shelter-3914

Holy sht a stock not at zero dollars can drop? IVE BEEN LIED TO MY ENTIRE LIFE

IAMInevitable108

NVDA is going to solve the mystery of the Flower of Life. If you know what means then you’ll understand why it will the most valuable company in the world until anyone else can solve anything bigger than the freaking FLOWER OF LIFE itself.

VengefulMage

At minimum the flatness and drilling kills the all caps "BUY CALLS! LIFE IS EASY! JOBS ARE FOR SUCKAS!" Posts for the day

IntroductionWeak244

Jesus I have way more comments than anyone else I have NO LIFE

jaypowwow

There’s 24 hours in a day, for those people that sleep 10 hours a day. They’re almost giving up 50% of their LIFE in a bed. Let that be your motivation!

Formal_Yoghurt_

Not surprised the meeting was a nothingburger. Basically “ we are closing stores to improve profit “ this in theory improves profit but it also drives down the value of the company asset wise and shows no strategy of growth. There is no pivot of business or planned investment announced so as a company it’s only value is still being a meme stock. IMO this drop will put the new average range at $24 - $27, If you still want to buy in now is probably the time…….WITH DISPOSABLE INCOME NOT YOUR LIFE SAVINGS!!!!! I have money I can afford to lose in this but I’m sceptical of it ever getting above $50, I’ll be selling 50% if it hits $45.

herefordapumpum

NVDAAAAAAAA, PUMP TO 150 BY FRIDAY, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS 

trainwreck001

If these DFV cultists just bought OTM NVDA Calls pre ER they would have more than 10x their money by now.  NVDA is LIFE CHANGING. NVDA $1K 

Bosko_310

I am making money on my calls. GME. GET A LIFE.

GobGlizzy

HPE YOU SAVED MY LIFE 

myironlung6

GenAI can tell you the weather. LIFE CHANGING

Mister_Lonely_

NVIDIA -90% WHAT HAS HAPPENED OMG. I HAD MY WHOLE LIFE SAVINGS IN NVIDIA $5 

zxc123zxc123

Stonks mostly go up, but regards on WSB will still blow out their accounts doing stupid shit like 0DTE SPY, FD on stocks like NVDA ***AFTER*** they go up 5000%, and/or buy absolute trash based on memes or whatever. Underlying concept of stock market going up applies only to INVESTORS not degenerate traders or addict gamblers. -------------------- I'll just put my answer to OP here too: >How many of you actually know what a real bear market looks like? There's no non-real bear market. 2022 was a real bear market and so was 2020. The "REAL" you are trying to get at isn't the "market" but **REAL LIFE** real. That's what defines the GFC. Folks lost their jobs, folks lost their homes, every company fell, 100year+ companies in the S&P500 when to 0, and there were no fucking jobs so you had no fucking pay. Crime goes up be it "urban demographic" robbing jewelry store, house wives pulling credit card fraud to make end meet, or just petty shoplifting theft. It's not that your neighbor is unemployed but YOU are unemployed. There ain't no fucking pay rises but pay cuts IF YOU ARE LUCKY. If you run a business then you struggle to make sales, fire folks to make ends meet, pickup and stack more of the work upon yourself to make bills, and most likely still see the business you put your time/money/life into die. Foreclosures/evictions, folks hitting the street, instability as main street revolts against wall street (remember [folks actually did it in person and not for the money back in the day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street)), and you see the general rot around you. Forget about getting paid or rises let alone this whole "LOL I QUIT AND I'LL HAVE ANOTHER JOB WITH +20% WAGE INCREASE IN BY 1PM AFTERNOON!" shit that happened in 2020-2024. Shit wasn't so bad that top 100 Uni grads where doing unpaid internships they were ***PAYING FOR THE """PRIVILAGE""" TO WORK UNPAID INTERNSHIPS FOR THE """EXPERIENCE""" IN HOPES OF LANDING AN UNPAID INTERNSHIPT THAT WOULD LEAD TO A JOB***. [The ones that "made it" would be hated by everyone along with their own mom for being a filthy fucking banker, work 80hrs a week, and then fucking die making like 50K or some shit](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/22/moritz-erhardt-merrill-lynch-intern-dead-inquest) This was in 2013 btw. Already WAY better than in 2008-2012 imo. Oh and like 10-15 years later you have to listen to fucking zoomies with [their 50K jobs without a high school degree](https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/fast-food-chain-offers-teen-managers-living-wage-to-offset-worker-shortage) acting like you lucked the fuck out because you "could have bought the dip" without realizing you wouldn't even have a fucking job.

SoyjakvsChadRedditor

MY LIFE IS LIKE A VIDEO GAME  TRYING HARD TO BEAT THE STAGE  ALL WHILE STILL COLLECTING COINS

momsexhaver

CONGRATS  THIS IS WHERE YOUR LIFE SAVINGS WENT 

RandomUserOfTheYear

My dear regards, I hereby declare my bankruptcy  today I have simply lost everything and all I have left is my harmonica, I'll go out on the street with it and make music for small change: [look here if you want to witness it. A REGARDED LIFE - Traders Daily Motivation Song](https://youtu.be/5XnlczHUiPI) Maybe I'll celebrate my comeback... to the moon... 

OkMorning5268

I need this in my LIFE~

rathic

WARREN BUFFET. HAVE MY 200 DOLLAR ORDER GET ACCEPTED AND MY LIFE IS YOUR https://preview.redd.it/c73rf09bbd4d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5bde2948a7d2d4a669156fff687b8094d325c0f

I_Sell_Death

Now that's LIVIN A LIFE. ❤️

RandomUserOfTheYear

Since I'm totally bankrupt because of my 0DTE escapades, I'll continue to make some blues on the street for my Ballstreetwetboys in the hope that I'll earn some small change to gamble with, here I come: [A REGARDED LIFE - Traders Daily Motivation Song](https://youtu.be/5XnlczHUiPI)

DannyGyear2525

there's more to it than just "your tax bracket in retirement will be lower". Who knows - we may find ourselves in much higher tax brackets in a few years - and as I noted there are impacts to Provisional Income. And as I said - if you have a compelling case for current tax deferral - fine. But, don't dismiss TAX FREE FOR LIFE income on your Roth returns.

Ultrabananna

     We get chickens on steroids and cows on steroids. Corn on steroids. Fruits that taste like nothing. Milk that taste like water. Bread that has 100 ingredients too many to be called bread. Suger and stuff that's close enough to be called legal cocaine in our drinks. Food colored fish. I can go on....          You know the size of our chicken breast is about the size of a whole chicken in almost every other country? When I traveled I never knew blueberries and strawberry's can be so good. That our bananas are shit our oranges omg out oranges..... I forgot how good oranges tasted until I traveled.        Oh but we got the avocados though... Clean water that we are polluting and take for granted. Clean air that we take for granted. What else? We are trying to feed our people lab made "meat" and turn it into a thing for maximum profit.       DEEP BREATH. Now that your all messed up from the stuff we feed you. Healthcare is almost unaffordable they call it a luxury but we can't afford to eat or live a healthy life style. We either don't have the time or the means to buy good heathy food. OHHH but they care about our health and bodies when it comes to other things? Childbirth it's a LIFE you die giving birth if you have to and you go to jail if you don't! Screw you christians. They pretty much control what we consume cause finding what want on the market is hard. We are criminals if we smoke weed but here take this painkiller or antidepressant instead or maybe some other drug that'll make you feel ok but can overdose on or have some crazy side effects with very addictive properties. We sell you liquor but no liquors for anyone on a Sunday because buddy you gotta be at work on Monday. I'm done almost dont. Merica I love you but get your shit together. We are suppose to be the superpower that oversees other countries? A world leader? Act like one. Stop taking away our freedoms using the biggest gang. The cops. Teach the bad onee there are consequences. Teach rookies basic law and our freedoms. Stop making police stations compete for funding. Stop nickel and dimeing your citizens in every possible way. Then maybe just maybe people will trust the police again. Put the humanity back in law. Innocent people get arrested once by a dumb cop guess what that does? You know what's one thing that Trump did that I agreed with? He had the nation join together and agree. That we can't stand for what he stood for be it who he truly is or just how he acted to get everyone to talk about the issue. The racism and hate for one another that so many people in America hold against each other. I have nothing but love for another human remember we are stuck on this damn rock together like it or not. When Elon gets to mars you're free to go there.

Otherwise-Tale9671

We have been brainwashed into thinking that owning a home makes a person "complete," on in other words, "successful." That said, the majority of folks in the U.S. have always been priced out of the majority of desirable markets in the country. Over the last few years, this reality has spread to a greater part of the population, meaning that an increasing number of folks feel like they are not complete and/or successful. Yes, the housing market is out of control right now in the U.S.; however, LIFE in the U.S. is not nearly as bad as we make it out to be, mainly because we have created these false parameters around what is success and what is not...

wmtthrowawaytrash

JPow, I need you to CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES.

PM_me_your_dreams___

GET A LIFE

Pussy_Prince

🎼Someone saved my life tonight SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT 🎶

Mpcars

I feel like that rkelly meme right now lmao “IM FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE “

mattmre

Quite honestly. I lost more than double this, 10 years of savings in a short time. Stop trading or gambling. Get into something slower and more methodical, something that allows you to think and put capital to work with your own hands until you can understand the workings. Get a mentor in the space, get involved in a small business that makes you think, hire 1-2 people for weekend events or a trade-show, see if you can develop your management skills, and finally start to then scale and invest time if you are seeing sales of profits steadily increase. Do the opposite of everything your brain is trying to do now, nothing is quick, there is no grind-less win-streak that will give you a payoff better than falling in love with something small and making it grow. GROW SOMETHING AND GROW YOURSELF INTO THIS LONG TRAIN RIDE OF LIFE!

Fair_Philosopher575

Do you know what does “make your life better” mean? Let me put it simple this way: You work a 9-5 like 99% of people. What do you get at the end of the day? A salary, a wage. Getting a salary and pay your bills don’t make your life better. You put it all on NVDA call 1000$ yesterday. What do you get? LIFE CHANGING MONEY.

johnloc97

ALL MY PUTS GAINS ARE COMING BACK TO LIFE 

toughdecisionss

yes I fucking did FUCK MY LIFE

johnloc97

MY PUTS ARE ON LIFE SUPPORT 

johnloc97

MY PUTS ARE ON LIFE SUPPORT 

sonofalando

# YOU KNOW WE WILL ALL BE SIPPING CHAMPAGNE AND TAKING BETS WHEN REAL LIFE HUNGER GAMES HIT 

IcEMaNBeckeR

OP MADE ONE OF THE WORST MISTAKES OF HIS LIFE!!! I know because i’ve been there i had over $150,000 in my account two years ago and never sold and now my account is under $10,000! If you’re up that big on a stock take the winnings and reinvest in other companies or dividend stocks and live off dividends! Good luck to you but looks like this will be one of your life regrets down the road best of luck..

outoftownMD

Don’t short $AIR & $LIFE

KidTooLame

wallstreet account on X is a sham! guys you gotta make sure you exit before you fuck it up. PLEASE DONT PUT YOUR LIFE SAVINGS ON THIS MEME RUN, The hype is not there

AllTooWell31

This is not “play money” anymore. GME is my LIFE now, I will die protecting her

No_Pineapple_4609

AMC GO UP!! I PUT MY LIFE SAVINGS AND MAXED OUT MY CREDIT CARDS ON 5/17 $40 calls!!!

OkayThenBet

…I bought in at $63 pre-market. FUCK MY FUCKING LIFE!!!

SnooMarzipans902

There hasn’t been a prolonged market downturn, or “lost decade” if you will, in FAR too long and it shows. My advice: Throw your ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS, take on debt at any and all interest rates (it will not get cheaper to borrow!!!!), and become completely, and I mean completely illiquid. You don’t need savings, savings are for losers and poors. And you will be rich. All you have to do is have zero financial knowledge. Just buy stocks regardless of the price, do not worry about underlying fundamentals. Stocks only go up (look at history)

jonneh

ALCC/OKLO down 41% CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES 

Internal-Ruin6222

Cause Boston dynamics use lidar tech FCK MATE, GET A GIRL AND GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR LIFE. Done

DistinguishedIdiot

#BEARISH LIFE HACK ENCLOSED >!If you squint at your phone in low light you literally can’t see how fucking poor you are…. Scum bag!<

PristineFall51

JPOW! DESTROY MY ENEMIES(bears) AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!! 

Strange-Ad420

LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT GAMBA 

TraderMikes

I bought the stock because I figured out playing options is the quickest way to die young and poor. I still got fucked didnt sell the pop now its at $175. avg price $179 FUCK THIS LIFE

PristineFall51

JPOW! DESTROY MY ENEMIES (bears), AND MY LIFE IS YOURS 

Xtianus21

FUCJKk MY LIFE why god why this is bullshittttt lol. Fuck it I'm a tesla bull now. let's go

TheModeratorWrangler

Look for the… #BEAR NECESSITIES, THE SIMPLE LIFE EXPECTANCIES, FORGET ABOUT YOUR WORRIES AND YOUR STRIFE!

floridamanconcealmnt

3 days ago I had 7k in my brokerage account. It was all the money I had in the world. I sold off almost all personal possessions for it. Today I have over 27 k. American Express was suing me. I was beginning to worry they were going to get a default judgement against me and seize my vehicle I use for work. Their lawyers have been refusing to even contact me in the past few weeks , as I did not have enough to settle with them. Aftermarket on Friday I called them and settled. I will be calling Wells Fargo on Monday and settling a similar debt amount with them. RILY has made me LIFE CHANGING money …. And the stock is not done running. Next week is going to be WILD

m00z9

LIFE _is_ possible... outside the country.

redditsuxdeez

No Sir, I'm not one of those guys. I'm fuckin DONE! For LIFE!

Kuchinawa_san

Alexa , Play "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift SPY 520 I LOVE YOU AND ITS RUINING MY LIFE 

callmeladygrey

TSLA at 150: I’M FIGHTING FOR MY FUCKING LIFE! 

JakeTappersCat

V-tards assemble! V FOR LIFE V FOREVER

Rebelcr7

[LMFAO FUCK MY LIFE](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/JCKi1f9SF3)