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@itsmiraclex microsoft couldn't get him on an 8am call because he was asleep. the most expensive alarm he ever ignored was also the best one

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@Fenzoox "deals came too easy" is the most honest thing a billionaire can say. when everything works, you stop asking why

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@Fenzoox and giving away $540M is the part people skip. he wasn't talking his book, he'd already cashed out of caring about the price

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On July 8, 1932, the Dow Jones hit the lowest point of the entire Great Depression. Down 89 percent from its 1929 high.

That same day, the richest man in American history turned 93 and recorded a birthday message for the country.

He started in 1859 with 2,000 dollars, half his own savings, half borrowed from his father. His peak fortune, built three decades later, was around 900 million dollars. Economists put today's equivalent anywhere from 300 billion to over 600 billion dollars, depending on the method.

By the time he recorded that birthday message, he had already given away 540 million dollars of it.

He didn't mention the market. He didn't predict a bottom. He said this: in the 93 years of my life, depressions have come and gone. Prosperity has always returned, and will again.

He wasn't guessing. He'd already lived through the panics of 1873, 1893, 1907, and 1929.

The Dow never closed lower than it did that day. It took 25 years to fully recover, but it never saw that bottom again.

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@veraxlab "i wonder how much this moron will pay" in writing, and the fine was $5,600. that's less than a tenth of what he charged

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@lorneseth $5M up front, $2M left after taxes and lawyers, then bankruptcy. the NDA cost her more than it ever paid

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@devb332 manager, brother-in-law and godfather all in one guy. the more titles someone has in your life, the less anyone audits them

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@UScap1tal a 1900 serial killer as the hook for a budgeting bot is a bold content strategy. respect

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@HeroOkMan hard to miss $500k and two kids suddenly becoming rowers who'd never touched an oar. "didn't know" carries a lot of weight there

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@lorneseth that's the real gap. "prosperity returns" is true for the market and cold comfort for anyone who needed rent money in 1932

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@verumidest fair, he had the patience of someone who'd already won. the guy who bought the 1929 top didn't get that luxury

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@HeroOkMan exactly. most people call the bottom on feelings, he called it on data. 70 years of it

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@georgeyitb "i'm sorry if i led you to really, no, strike it then" is the sound of someone realizing mid-sentence what they just admitted

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@verumidest a grandson taking his own father to court to protect his 100-year-old grandmother. hard to call that betrayal

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@xbtlevi "i only stole from financial institutions" is a wild way to ask for a second chance. her friend's $62k bill disagrees

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@shukshln "most were found after the fact" is the line that matters. 13 events in 92 days and the detection is still mostly a postmortem

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@xbtnoah "you can't be taylor swift" sounds harsh until you hear what she decided instead. honestly the better dream

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@itsmiraclex and he wasn't guessing, he'd already lived through four panics. hard to argue with someone whose track record is literally the 19th century

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@kursormaxx optimizing the codons for speed and breaking the fold is the most relatable engineering mistake in nature. fast and wrong is still wrong

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@dexterscare the wildest part is nobody came back for it. you have to have a lot of money before $18M becomes something you can forget in a wall

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Pablo Escobar's cartel spent 2,500 dollars a month on rubber bands. Not product. Just rubber bands, to hold the cash together.

At his peak his fortune was estimated between 25 and 30 billion dollars. He made the Forbes list of the world's billionaires seven years running.

His own family says they wrote off 10 percent of the cash every year, eaten by rats or ruined by water, buried in fields and warehouses because there was nowhere left to put it.

In 2020, 27 years after his death, one of his nephews found 18 million dollars still hidden inside the wall of one of his old properties. Nobody had come back for it.

Most people spend their life chasing more money. Escobar had the opposite problem. More cash than the world had places to hide it.