Fident

ICU/Rehabilitation Nurse, Trader. Musician. SSBU Byleth Main

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@ChartsRUs0 The fact you’ve been doing both at that caliber, hats off to you. Enjoy the climax lol i can settle for a pontoon boat instead of a yacht but that’s goals one day

[ludwig @LudwigAhgren]

in college I became obsessed with smash
I wanted to go to tournaments, commentate games, and make videos about it
my girlfriend at the time thought it was lame as hell and we broke up shortly after
there’s beauty in dedicating a portion of your life to a delusional dream but you need people in your life who will support you

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@slime_machine It took me a while to get over it, was hoping I could change it to Japanese to bypass the cringe but once you get passed it and accept that’s how they sound/talk it’s a 10/10 game

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@Haywyremusic If you made any type of piano teaching course, I'd take out a second mortgage. sheet music is a start ty!

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@Volume_Stocks What a find dude, nice

[Max Leverage (Prediction Market Trader) @tradewithmaxx]

The year is 2028

The unemployment rate is 99.7%

You receive your $700 universal basic income from the government

You have 3 days to gamble it on a prediction market to make your $2,800/mo rent on a studio apartment 70 miles outside Tulsa, Oklahoma

If you can’t quadruple the money, the government seizes your clothes and send you to be on Season 9 of Beast Games

The loser of the season is hunted alive by the elites for sport, live streamed on TikTok

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@DANY_LILSUNNY Let’s go dude!!!!

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@JollibeeTrades Only issue has been cleaning it, stuff sticks like none other even soap, otherwise pretty good! Had some friends toss theirs because microplastics but I doubt it’s that deep 😂

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@vwapx @Stocktwits Figma balls lmaooooooo

[Charts R Us @ChartsRUs0]

Phantom Prints from April 7th, 2025
After hours

[EE »★« @ EVO @EEvisu]

Only people I see complaining about Switch 2 prices are broke MFers lmaooo

Anyway, these prices are absolutely outrageous.

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@TLAMB91 Ruh roh raggy?

[Mr Chart Norris @kholov23]

I don’t usually sell too early, but when I do, it keeps ripping.

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@Mr_Derivatives

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@Sallocs That’s the best fintwit tweet I’ve seen in a minute for a wrong callout instead of deleting 😂 you’ve been killing it though Squidward, keep it up thanks for your insight

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@KROptions

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

[Fident @FidentTrades]

@ChartsRUs0 Have you seen anything on $YINN?