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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26525509 - 03/09/20 01:28 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Those are all great, great, vague statements.
Now can you name some things you learned from Jeff Bezos?
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I said I've learned a lot. The lessons are gained through observation, trial, and error. They're not so easily conveyed in a post to be honest. You observe someone doing better than you. You take note of how you behave differently. You try adopting practices from people doing better than you.
Seriously? You have trouble explaining what you learned using words? So instead you (for some unexplainable reason) re-state that you learn by looking at what Jeff does? WHAT is it you learned?
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
#26525522 - 03/09/20 01:35 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've learned that it is possible for children to grow up to be astronauts, even if they have to build the rockets themselves.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26525528 - 03/09/20 01:40 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Mad Mike died before he got to space.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
#26525539 - 03/09/20 01:51 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Holy shit. I hadn't seen that.
https://www.space.com/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-dies-in-homemade-rocket-launch.html
I was thinking more along the lines of orchestrating the armies of people it takes to assemble what NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origins have done... but Mad Mike gets credit for trying that's for damn sure. As a flat-earther, I'm wondering how much solid engineering went into his projects, but most certainly credit for trying.
Edit- the man needed financing
https://www.space.com/craigslist-water-heater-mad-rocket-launch.html
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador] 1
#26525545 - 03/09/20 01:55 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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The man needed a brain.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera] 1
#26525553 - 03/09/20 02:03 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Financing for school.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador] 1
#26525554 - 03/09/20 02:04 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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And likely a few tutors.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera] 2
#26525579 - 03/09/20 02:19 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Indeed! And also a few tooters.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26525632 - 03/09/20 02:55 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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susurrador said: Of course. No one needs anything besides food, water, air, shelter.
If we all only had what we needed, we'd be wild animals again.
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feldman114 said: ok so you haven’t learned anything. Settles that.
Why do you think you know more about starting a business than people you’ve never met?
I said I've learned a lot. The lessons are gained through observation, trial, and error. They're not so easily conveyed in a post to be honest. You observe someone doing better than you. You take note of how you behave differently. You try adopting practices from people doing better than you. Chances are it doesn't work perfectly and needs adjustment, more observation etc. But eventually you get to something solid that guides you in the right directions.
There is more I don't know about business than what I do know. But I do know if you throw around ideas like arbitrarily, artificially, and unjustly modifying aspects of people's lives and businesses to change how you or others live without changing what you do... you don't know jack about how business works. There was a time I didn't know jack about it either so I don't blame or hate on that account.
Also, I'm trying to express the idea of people deciding what other people do or don't need is an endless, fruitless pursuit. Because every individual has different tastes and perceived needs. Some vary drastically and some vary only slightly but each person is different.
So rather than being like this trying to get to the bottom of what other people should or shouldn't have, and decide what people need...
I am suggesting you have all the power in the world to create whatever you want out of this life from scratch no matter what Jeff is off doing behind his curtain.
Like this 
That's not true, most people have limited resources/talent and can't create whatever they want. They can do amazing things, but they just can't create things that require resources that they don't have access too at all.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: qman]
#26525639 - 03/09/20 03:00 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't think there's anything wrong with people being able to accumulate personal wealth that is above others, but after a certain point there has to be a limit.
why cant we just cap people at 900 mill? 500m? how much money does a single person need? It just doesn't seem right to me.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: TNK]
#26525659 - 03/09/20 03:21 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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There is no cap on the amount of wealth that exists. Why would you cap an individual's bank account?
Just because Jeff has all his money doesn't mean you can't go out and earn or create an equal amount if you come up with the right ideas.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: qman]
#26525666 - 03/09/20 03:24 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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qman said:
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susurrador said: Of course. No one needs anything besides food, water, air, shelter.
If we all only had what we needed, we'd be wild animals again.
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feldman114 said: ok so you haven’t learned anything. Settles that.
Why do you think you know more about starting a business than people you’ve never met?
I said I've learned a lot. The lessons are gained through observation, trial, and error. They're not so easily conveyed in a post to be honest. You observe someone doing better than you. You take note of how you behave differently. You try adopting practices from people doing better than you. Chances are it doesn't work perfectly and needs adjustment, more observation etc. But eventually you get to something solid that guides you in the right directions.
There is more I don't know about business than what I do know. But I do know if you throw around ideas like arbitrarily, artificially, and unjustly modifying aspects of people's lives and businesses to change how you or others live without changing what you do... you don't know jack about how business works. There was a time I didn't know jack about it either so I don't blame or hate on that account.
Also, I'm trying to express the idea of people deciding what other people do or don't need is an endless, fruitless pursuit. Because every individual has different tastes and perceived needs. Some vary drastically and some vary only slightly but each person is different.
So rather than being like this trying to get to the bottom of what other people should or shouldn't have, and decide what people need...
I am suggesting you have all the power in the world to create whatever you want out of this life from scratch no matter what Jeff is off doing behind his curtain.
Like this 
That's not true, most people have limited resources/talent and can't create whatever they want. They can do amazing things, but they just can't create things that require resources that they don't have access too at all.
All people have limited resources and talent. That's why you recruit the people that have what you don't have along the way. Be it money, power, knowledge, talent, land, whatever.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26525684 - 03/09/20 03:32 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't mean a literal cap. Maybe just a system in place that prevents it from happening in the first place.
And I don't mean to take away people's money but rather put a solution into work that will prevent this from continuing to happen for future generations.
I dont have the solutions, I just don't don't think as a species this current system will work for us as a whole.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: TNK]
#26525688 - 03/09/20 03:34 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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But what is the problem with one person earning so much money if there is no maximum amount of money that can exist?
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: TNK] 2
#26525691 - 03/09/20 03:36 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's futile. He's just gonna keep regurgitating the same thing over, and over again...and each post will likely have the word "arbitrary/arbitrarily" in it at least once.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: 1234go]
#26525697 - 03/09/20 03:39 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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 Pretty much
I’ve actually pasted the definition of “arbitrary” for him into this very thread in hopes he’ll stop.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: 1234go]
#26525699 - 03/09/20 03:39 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just can't imagine in a 100 years it's going to look much better for people.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114] 1
#26525702 - 03/09/20 03:41 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Jeff Jorgenson is king, he is the father, he is the holy spirit, he is the provider of knockoff shoes when I need them. We should all bask in his glory.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26525712 - 03/09/20 03:45 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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susurrador said: But what is the problem with one person earning so much money if there is no maximum amount of money that can exist?
There is a limit to the amount of value of money. The more you print the less it’s worth.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: 1234go]
#26525715 - 03/09/20 03:46 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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1234go said: It's futile. He's just gonna keep regurgitating the same thing over, and over again...and each post will likely have the word "arbitrary/arbitrarily" in it at least once.
I use the word arbitrary because there isn't a better word to describe the way people are trying to decide how much, who needs, who doesn't, etc. in this thread.
There is no way you are going to get the world, much less a country, much less a city, much less a group of friends to agree on what people need and how much money is too much money.
I'm standing on pretty solid ground here so no need to budge. Assess your ground, dudes. How far has your way of thinking taken you in life? Don't you think it is better to observe the people leading the way and do what you can to lead yourself?
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