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Fantastic-Goat-1124

Well by now most have understod that they "elected" a con man who is destroying USA reputation and position in the world. NOW HE WANTS TO ALLY WITH A WAR CRIMINAL WHO IS WANTED FOR WAR CRIMES. HIS GOOD WING MAN IN CRIME CALLED PUTIN A HUMANITARIAN! I THINK THAT IS THE MOST DISCUSTING THING I HAVE HEARD IN MY LIFE.

Cool-Climate-484

I gambled with $125,000 in gold futures and NVDA SNDK MU options. Lost all of it. Then a hope of recovery comes, Took a sofi loan of $90,000, played options with that same money. Lost all of them in 4 months. Now sitting at $0.01 portfolio value. Going to permanently close all options accounts. I have also signed self trade exclude(meaning it will put lifetime ban on that broker app for option trading) Life is to live. I don’t want fucking depression anymore. Thankfully I have stable job so will slowly pay all loan and keep quiet 🤫 YES IM FAILURE IN OPTION TRADE BUT IM NOT FAILURE IN REAL LIFE. I WILL MAKE MONEY BY DIFFERENT IDEAS DIFFERENT INNOVATION

Jerikolol

oil is in my ass its all over WAARGHH sell SPY sell QQQ sell my LIFE

No-Inevitable1270

pirating is justice shows these coporations that are charging ridiculous costs for watching shit especially nba u can't even watch all nba games with their stupid game pass. Point is it puts power in the consumer and these stupid companies like netflix hate that. FUCK THEM NETFLIX CRAVE HULU ETC FUCK THEM PIRATING FOR LIFE ARGHHHHH IM A PIRATE TILL THE DAY I DIE. SHIT i'll pirate in the after life if there is one

Additional-Season207

I'd bet your LIFE my cost basis is $14. What a rocket ride

Meatpodz

nobody here has traded a mid cap stock in their LIFE

Pitiful_Bedroom_6619

MY $AMD CALLS ARE ON LIFE SUPPORT :sorrow:

Few_Adhesiveness2963

I PUT MY LIFE SAVINGS ON PUTs !! THE STOCKS WILL CRASH TOMORROW

Federal-Watch

**YOU GAVE UP ON LIFE DIDN’T YA?!!** :screech:

Expert_Turn4697

Cause I held my puts FUCK MY LIFE... every fucking time im 1 trade from being at my goal i get fucking raped

TemporaryCapital3871

I was widowed with a 9 yr old at 39, had to start from scratch, worked 4 months for $12/hr for a complete douchebag that was 4 years younger than me and started with $2500 and built a business with over $1.4 million/yr in revenue within 2 years. Saved and still lived like I was making $12/hr. Learn from it. I also lived through 2008, the year my daughter was born at 26 weeks and lost everything due to being in steel distribution on the construction side. Point is, youre 33. You have A LOT OF LIFE AND TIME. You clear 10k/month. You want to know what you should do, and its just my opinion, live off of 5k if you can. Spread it out, actually keep more cash on hand ATM and be ready to buy the dip thats about to hit, its just my opinion, but its tracking like we're overdue. I hope im wrong there. I took a 8% loss this week over my modest investment portfolio, so I feel you. STOP GAMBLING, I think the statistics on someone who can successfully trade options is under 1%, but what do I know. Good luck and keep your chin up.

SkanteWarrrior

the most fake and gay shit ive ever seen in my fucking LIFE

Aggravating-Good4879

WHO WOULDVE THOUGHT THESE USELESS PFE 30/35c WOULD COME TO LIFE WHAT A CONSOLATION PRIZE FOR THE AGES

Boheed

only YOU can stop ORCL from dying. Invest your LIFE SAVINGS now.

Silent_Win116

Pls CPI PRINT MY PUTS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

JohanLiebert92

I swear on my mothers LIFE man. I only have the general emotes, look https://preview.redd.it/scu3wcah9avh1.png?width=1864&format=png&auto=webp&s=8fbea2b72bfcc836150a6f2fe120146f26be437a

ZARG420

For fucks sake SELL YOUR LIFE SAVINGS BACK and let the rest ride

tropicalia84

# LIFE AND PORT IN SHAMBLES # CASE IN POINT :kek: :kek: :kek:

_____rs

Puts on $LIFE

random-birdy

I lost almost 50k and I am not winning about it… because it was NOT MY WHOLE LIFE SAVINGS. You don’t do that kind of shit, at most 10-20% of your assets should be thrown in gambling

TheDMac123

It Doesn’t matter anymore what oil is coming through the straight….. it’s the refined product production that has been damaged that’s going to keep the prices up… THE STOCK MARKET IS NOT REAL LIFE PRICES.

WillTheDreadWolf

Sell half. You can live with that NVDA is an amazing investment it will grow. That is LIFE CHANGING money. Sell my friend

PooPooPointBoiz

FUCK MY GODDAMN LIFE. I was in SNDK overnight, at like 3am I was up 8k. I kept holding and went to bed. I woke up, I was just 1k up. Holy shit. I kept holding, I was 3k in the red at open, even more holy shit. I kept holding, and eventually sold on a pop for like 1k profit. Then I got into MU, I was down, then up, then up a bit more, sold that for like 1k profit. Then I got into GOOGL/GGLL, and of course that shit shits the bed the moment I buy in. 340 average cost right before it fell off a fucking cliff. I was down like 6k on that stupid shit. It recovered a bit, but I closed out the day still 3k down. I'm still holding but at this point I don't fucking know what to do. MU/SNDK DROPPED on an INSANE MU earnings beat. GOOGL rocketed 5% yesterday on news about the new gemini release, only to give it all back, I buy in, and it shits again. Like what in the actual fuck dude. How the fuck is my luck so fucking shit. I'm like 2k down right now on stupid ass GOOGL/GGLL.

Longjumping-Swan39

wdym? it went down. I AHTE MY LIFE. I WAS SO STRESSED. I HATE THIS GAME

Unique_Ad_6241

Daddy trump! GIVE ME A MARKET CRASH! AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!!!!!!

Napster-mp3

People are going insane. I think we are actually getting close to a revolution, or a bubble popping like you have never seen IN YOUR LIFE

Smartandass

HEAR THIS EVERYONE! DDO NOT USE ROBINHOOD PERIOD!!! THEY HAVE BROKEN MY SCREEN. I HAVE IRREFUTABLE EVIIDENCE THEY ARE MANIPULATING MY ACCOUNT. ONCE I HIT MY FIRST MAJOR OPTIONS DE A L MY SCREEN WENT NUTS. MY 152K EXECUTED TRADE DISAPPEARED AND MY ACCOUNT HAS BERN RUINED ECER SINCE. I HAD SEVERAL HUGE OPTIONS CONTRACTS EXECUTED THST WERE CANCELED. 41 IN FACT Blank limit orders. CANCELED l I trade odte and all my canceled orders were physically charged to limit. They tried to blame me gas light me told me to continue trading on a h Home screen that would never go past strike. Ihave iver 100 pics of frozen screens opposite trades ot will be a green put red call opposite. A continuing negative balance that should reflect positive then a tier 3 offer b worh a million dollar margin. They refuse to fix so I have filed with sec finra rh corporate and sent to major news teams. Im in the process of prosecuting. The name isn't a fluke AT ALL. IT DESCRIBES THE ACTION OF THE COMPANY! THEY HAVE BEEN FOUND LIABLE FOR DECEIVING CUSTOMERS COLLARING SALES AND NOT GAURDDING YOUR BEST. INTEREST! Please reach out iif u have questions or want more info. I have also written a book that will become a live community blog every week. Im doing this to prevent u from suffering my fate because I love the people and want to help with life stress and trading in the mix. Its not just my story its all of ours. Im here in the trenches with u. Im not a fucking bullshit guru trying to lie manipulate and take your money. Please take care of yourselves. My book is called from GRIT TO GRITZ... when I ran out of OPTIONS I TRADED THEM!!! HOPE U ALL ENJOY IT AND ATTEND THE BLOG. IT'S ABOUT EVERYONE AND THEIR STORY IT COUNTS ... IT MATTERS...WE ARE ISOLATED WITH OUR TRADING AND OUR LIFE PAIN AND STRUGGLES.

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Levels of Wealth According to Reddit: - 1k: secure safety net - 10k: substantial family savings - 50k: upper middle class - 100k: rich - 250k: very rich - 500k: ultra rich - 1m: extreme wealth and the very wealthiest people - 1b+: the billionaires like Jeff Bezos REAL LIFE: add many many zeroes

PooPooPointBoiz

Bro, fuck SNDK. Stupid fuck opend slightly green but my stupid ass didn't sell, and then that shit fucking plunged and I was 10k in the hole. It recovered but I'm still 3k down. And MU earnings is coming up to fuck SNDK in the ass. FUCK MY LIFE DUDE.

M00NFAC3_69

Not only did I lose 20k today and my entire port, but my dog just found a giant animal shit in the grass, put in his mouth, I didn't know what it was, I scoop it out of his throat and my fucking hand is covered in shit for an entire walk and still smells like shit. fuck my life bro, FUCK MY LIFE

spendology

I mean...mixing is how we really get to the FUN in LIFE

korben2600

https://preview.redd.it/hi3z1gr1nxrh1.jpeg?width=899&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f6c43fc596a0f8b7483fc1effeaf6236aa93613 MY LIFE FOR ISRAEL 🫡

Maleficent-Couple-76

LIFE

PooPooPointBoiz

Fuck my goddamn life. GOOGL drops massively, I buy in, it pops a bit, but I'm stuck at work and can't look at my phone. When I do look I've lost 4k. Finished the day 5k down. FUCK MY LIFE DUDE.

VulcanSpark

Mark Davis spent $1 million proposing to Abella Danger, renting the entire LED screen of The Sphere building to display the message: "Will you be my 'Quarterback'?". What's even more special is that if she says yes, the entire lighting system of the Allegiant Stadium will turn pink instead of the traditional silver for 24 hours.----- Tell ME YOUR LIFE SUCKS WITHOUT TELLING ME YOUR LIFE SUCKS

music_is_gud

Not just the markets, LIFE as a whole was peaceful for some reason

RemarkablePut971

i sold dell at 160 after bagholding it for like 2 years, after the 2024 premarket AI bait. now its hitting 580, in months. FUCK MY PUSSY ASS LIFE

Dull-Sprinkles-2874

Sources: Trust me bro DONT BE A WOKE LIBTARD PANICAN RINO WANNA BE PATRIOT THIS IS THE TRUTHEST OF TRUTHS BIGGER THAN ANYTING THAT HAS BEEN CONSIDERED BIGGER THAN LIFE AND EVER SAID THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER PDJT

Daisy687

Yo you have such a high rate of luck, invest 10k into me and the returns will be insane <3 rather than flushing it out into the market. 10k would be LIFE CHANGING ... let alone 1M. You should never get over it. Someone call a WAAAAAMBULANCE!

Conscious-Net-637

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Slightlybadpicks

TRUE STORY, PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE, ITS LIFE CHANGING: While out playing in Shenzhen, I wanted to experience a foreign girl, so I found a pimp. The pimp asked me if I wanted Russian or Ukrainian, and asked if I supported Putin or Zelenskyy. I said, "Is there some trick to this?" He said, "Every choice you make affects the global landscape. If you choose a Russian girl, the Russian girl will send the money back home, turning it into bullets fired at Ukraine. If you choose a Ukrainian girl, she'll send it back to Ukraine too, to buy weapons and fight back." I hesitated for a long time—this impact was huge. My one choice could actually be the spark for World War III. Later, I figured I couldn't mess up the world balance. so I chose both.

PooPooPointBoiz

Fuck my stupid fucking ass dude. "September is typically a bearish month" my fucking ass. I was balls deep in SPY puts and that shit fucking rallied yesterday and today and fucked me over badly. If I had just stayed in fucking META/METU I would have been fucking rich. FUCK MY STUPID FUCKING LIFE. I JUST CAN'T FUCKING WIN.

PooPooPointBoiz

Why the fuck am I so retarded? Monday into Tuesday I was holding META/METU, got my ass fucked badly with the big drop before open. I sold after it recovered almost to break even. Still took a loss on it. I held nothing overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. And of course META fucking rockets at open. Same with NVDA. My stupid fucking ass saw SPY at like .1% and I figured hey it's September, oil is going up, yields are going up, by all means it's bear time. So I got fucking Sept 2027 puts. And I GOT FUCKED TODAY. FUCK MY FUCKING LIFE DUDE.

PooPooPointBoiz

WHAT THE FUCK. FUCK MY LIFE DUDE I GET PUTS AND THE MARKET FUCKING POPS. I thought Sept was supposed to be a dog shit ass month dude. Oil going up, yields going up, what the fuck is there to be bullish about?????

Pitiful_Bedroom_6619

PORTFOLIO DOWN, CALLS ARE TOAST BUT IM LISTENING TO Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E, EATING AN ANCHOVY CROSTINI. LIFE IS GOOD REGARDS!

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REDDIT’s definition of rich: Net Worth:  - $0 poor  - $1-100 doing okay  - $100-1k privileged  - $1k-10k upper middle class  - $10k-100k rich  - $100k-999,999 filthy rich  - $1m+ filthy disgustingly horribly rich and everything above this is the same In REAL LIFE, anything below $5m is poor and $10m is fu money and you need $50m to be rich and ultra rich you need billions.

OpenSource_Horse

\>closest to the edge *You think you know me* **DUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUH DUUUUH DUHHH DUUUH DUUUH DUUUUH DUUUH DUUUH DUUUUH DUH.** **ON THIS DAY I SEE CLEARLY. EVERYTHING HAS COME TO LIFE.**

jonneh

Some of y'all are saying some crazy stuff and def going to get banned for at least 7 days. Having served my time last week for pretending to be in a memory gang, let me tell you, it's no joke. Now I feel like that Nicholas Cage meme where his hair is blowing in the wind, so free. I'm never saying anything crazy again except.. FUK U G HEY ASS BERS! SNDK MU 4 LIFE 🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿

SteakEater137

Honestly its true people get way too defensive about weed, to the point if feels kind of absurd. "Hey so some people have had bad experiences with weed, kind of dangerous if used irresponsibly" "WHAT DUDE. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE DIE FROM ALCOHOL AND THATS LEGAL? YOU THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE LOCKED UP JUST BECAUSE THEY SMOKE?! IVE SMOKED ALL MY LIFE AND IM 500% MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN EVERYONE THAT SAYS WEED IS BAD" ...woah.

whodowhodo

380%->>>> 0% fuck my LIFE

Many_Appeal1184

LET ME IN THE CASINO I WANNA SOME SWEET LEVERAGED LIFE :screech:

Thebaxxxx

#TATE GOT ARRESTED BOYS THEYRE FUCKED Tate likes to act rich but i looked a lil deeper into the man. And hes rich. But all his money and time is being flushed into attorneys and basically trying to build up enough money that he can buy the right people. Cuz him and his brother could litterally be fucked FOR LIFE

xsystxsyst

FUCKING HATE MY LIFE LOST EVERYTHING YESTERDAY BOUGHT 2x TSLA 352 1DTES FOR 0.8 EACH WITH MY LAST 160$ CURRENCY EXCHANGE BUGGED AND MY CASH BALANCE WENT -0.05 Cent I HAD ANOTHER CONTRACT WORTH 10$ 15MINS BEFORE CLOSE FUXKING XURSED IBKR LIQUIDATED MY TSLA 352 CALL LMAO ALWAYYS CURSED F M L

fenton7

One slight up day after years of continuous pain and crypto investors are like "WE ARE GENIUSES! I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN. THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE"

Potential_Flan_334

Gdi, I'm getting back into swing trading biotech and LITERALLY PUT $1,000 IN PAPER TRADING INTO MRNA BEFORE THEIR MRNA FLU VACCINE PDUFA DATE AND IVE KEPT HOLDING AND NOW I'M RICH IN PAPER MONEY BUT NOT IN REAL LIFE *unintelligible screaming*

Jobless-Dev

SPACEXXXXX, DRILL 5% MORE AND MY LIFE IS YOURSSS (insert God of war 3 ost)

OneJellyfish5980

SPY -2.5% overnight WOULD CHANGE MY 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.