Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.
The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.
"The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says.
The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.
The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more.
The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters.
Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years.
Insane.
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I don’t short.
I don’t dont leaps.
I don’t do options.
I don’t use leverage.
I don’t charge anything.
I don’t have a subscription.
I don’t get paid by X for my posts.
I don’t recommend anything I don’t own.
I do this for my kids.
I do this for my wife.
I do 100% transparency.
I do it out of pure love for the game.
I do share every move I make for free.
I train patience as my most valuable asset.
I work full-time and still show up here daily.
I do spend my time studying markets so you don’t have to.
No guru. No gatekeeping. No games. No ego.
Made a pact with my daughter. 365 days.
No excuses.
Goal 1: To show her the power of consistency and compound.
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If I ever provided you value somehow, you can support me by sharing my post.
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When I worked at Sears in the early 90's, the people there built entire lives off those jobs.
The guy running appliances had three kids, coached little league every weekend, and retired after 32 years with a pension.
One of the women in customer service bought her first house working full-time there, and the older guy in hardware took the same vacation to the Ozarks every summer because he could actually afford to unplug for a week.
The managers knew everybody by name, the Christmas bonuses actually meant something, and the store was packed every holiday season because business was booming.
Nobody thought they were "stuck" working retail - it was honest work that paid enough to live with dignity.
Somewhere along the way, corporations started making record profits while the people keeping the place running could barely afford rent.
When exactly did a steady full-time job stop being enough to build a normal life?
Another perspective is that without Disney she may not have ever been able to have the life later in life that she had. The exposure Disney gave her and the brand that was created was all Disney.
She made a smart decision at 16, but Disney had the audience and attention.
Disney paid a 13-year-old $15,000 an episode while selling $100 million in merchandise with her face on it. She never saw a dollar of the merch money.
Hilary Duff made $975,000 total for 65 episodes of Lizzie McGuire. The show's dolls, sleeping bags, notebooks, and Kohl's apparel line generated over $100 million in revenue for Disney. Her cut of that: reportedly zero. The movie grossed $55.5 million worldwide. She got $1 million.
Then Disney tried to lock her in. They offered a primetime ABC spinoff at $35,000 per episode and a sequel for $4 million plus 4% of gross. When her mother pushed for better terms, Disney gave them 24 hours to accept and then pulled the entire deal.
Her mom's quote: "Disney thought they'd be able to bully us into accepting whatever offer they wanted to make, and they couldn't. We walked away from a sequel. They walked away from a franchise."
She was 16. Most child stars who walk away from their franchise at 16 don't come back. The list of early-2000s Disney kids who maintained stable careers, stable finances, and stable public lives is brutally short.
Duff did seven seasons of Younger. Wrote novels. Raised three kids. Stayed out of tabloids for a decade. Then in late 2025, she dropped a comeback single. Her "Small Rooms, Big Nerves" warm-up shows sold out instantly, marking her first headline concerts in over a decade.
The Lucky Me Tour starts June 2026. Seven countries. 47 North American cities. Madison Square Garden. Red Rocks. The O2 in London. She added second nights in LA, New York, Toronto, and London because the first dates sold out too fast. Her husband produced the album.
The math that sticks: Disney made $100 million off a teenager and paid her less than $2 million total. Twenty-five years later she's headlining MSG and they're still selling Lizzie McGuire reruns.
That hallway walk on JHud's set is 25 years of receipts arriving at once.
I would take the $1,000,000 tax-free upfront.
Invest in the S&P 500 index fund and you will earn an average of around 10% per year. That will give you $1,923 a week on average for the rest of your life without touching the principal. $1,923 is greater than $1,000.
An 20-year-old Canadian girl won $1M (tax free in Canada) in the lottery and chose $1,000/week instead of the lump sum.
Is this wise or the worst financial decision of her life?
What are you doing when this happens to you??
@JCacciapaglia I’d throw my hat in the ring. Top .3% nationally in production and 340 Google Reviews from my clients and referral partners.
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I’ve been an FSU Football fan for over 30 years.
And I’ve never been this disinterested in the program as I am right now.
This program is reaching a point of where it’s unrecognizable. And I hate that.