Burton M

USMC Vet | Classical Liberal (look it up before you assume you know)| Gen X | Financial industry drone since 1995 (at some point you’re just stuck)

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

"If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled - have you no shame in that?"
-Epictetus

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@SeanCasten Before today I would have said you were better than this.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

Spot on. This is an important point. I have had similar objections to this phenomenon in corporate America. @jpmorgan has a habit of naming large team meeting rooms as the War Room. When I was hired to open a new office for them my first ask was to reconsider their plan to name pur large team meeting space as the War Room. As a vet, I found it disrespectful. Gratefully, my wishes were respected. Those who want to pose as combat fighters would never be willing to pay the price.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@krystalball C’mon. I don’t expect you to be a total math geek but to claim complete innumeracy? You’re better than that.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@todayyearsold

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@SFCSWII @walterkirn @kevincorke

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@JDCocchiarella @grahamformaine Birds of a feather…

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@SherylNYT You should definitely stock up on N95s and lock yourself in your home.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@Houseofyogi @walterkirn Tell me you don’t know what the Indiana deal is without telling me.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@RunwayDan @Thedukeistheman @MilesianSchool @boriquagato @BillyFostedamus Easy to tear stuff down. It’s the building part where they always get stuck.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@Thedukeistheman @RunwayDan @MilesianSchool @boriquagato @BillyFostedamus What alternate system has created the broad societal wealth that capitalism has?

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@Thedukeistheman @AIfortheenotme @MilesianSchool @boriquagato @BillyFostedamus I think we all get that surplus value and profit are the same thing. Nice attempt to deflect and not address the points others have made.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@Thedukeistheman @MilesianSchool @boriquagato @BillyFostedamus You just claimed the amount over the cost was the surplus value. Now you want to change the argument?

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@Thedukeistheman @MilesianSchool @boriquagato @BillyFostedamus Was there a guarantee it would sell for $300? What if it only sold for $225? Should the worker only then be paid $75? If you agree that he should, we can have a conversation. Because then we agree that he has taken a RISK.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@allengarvin @DrunkRepub I convinced my wife to let me sell a handful of our JPM at $17. Fortunately she limited me to about 5% of our overall holdings. We still have the rest. Never underestimate the power of the Dimon worshiper.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@DrunkRepub Especially given the money my wife is spending on renovations as we speak.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@DavidSacks @pointsnfigures1 Yeah, 172,000. Wow.

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@growing_daniel @drrollergator I give them Malort

[Burton M @RealBurtonM]

@tedlieu Probably the same thing that happened to this guy