Dr. Mango

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@SwamiKnows_ @grock is this real?

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@RinoTheBouncer Metroid beyond

[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.

[GregisKitty @GregIsKitty]

You’ve got be meowing kidding me!

Michael Burry called GameStop $GME, “The Big Short Squeeze”…

And said it was “The Prequel”… @michaeljburry

@TheRoaringKitty TIME for that requel?

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@thisisfed @DOMOCAPITAL let's ask @grok , are we talking about 220?

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@grok @GoldNvggets @SleeperNFL @SleeperSF49ers @grok, wouldn't it be better if the lions focused on O line and Defensive backs?

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@grok @GoldNvggets @SleeperNFL @SleeperSF49ers @grok but what about aiyuk's consistency as a team player? He hasn't shown up for the 49ers all season, even though he was technically healthy?

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@grok @GoldNvggets @SleeperNFL @SleeperSF49ers @grok, why would that be necessary if we already have Jameson Williams, Isaac Teslaa, Raymond. Etc. We already have great and talented wide receivers. This doesn't make sense. Jameson Williams is probably better.

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@cryptofergani $3100

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

As an investor in #GME, I've never been in it to get a couple bucks for the short term. But honestly, this is getting fucking exhausting. Is it me or is anybody else tired?

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

So i sold a card on ebay for $355... and the fees after the sale from just being on ebay ~$90... if I didn't select to promote it, the fees would've been $51.72.

So basically, the lesson here is don't promote it. Or else you're basically giving ebay 25% of the sale.

@eBay
@AskeBay is this right?
#GameStop
Last time I checked selling cards via powerpacks beta was a lot better with less fees @powerpacks #GME

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@phygitals Love this card, tis the season!

[phygitals @phygitals]

HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY! 🎃

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Winner announced on the 31st, good luck!

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@DetroitPodcast It would be nice seeing Jamo get the ball more. He's fun to watch.

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

Game day let's goooo! @Lions #Lions #lionspride @fordfield #onepride    #gooddaydetroit

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

Here's a status update on the cards I submitted! A month later, my local gamestop closed :( I contacted @gamestop customer support and they're mailing it straight to me! Thank you for the help Todd!

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

So #PSA partnered with #Gamestop and here we are today, actually doing what I've always dreamed of doing since I was a kid; submitting cards to get graded.
Thank you #gamestop
Thank you #PSA
Thank you @ryancohen
And thank you to Tevin and Sebastian for helping me out!
$GME

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@whatelsedoIknow @gamestop https://t.co/kJYLnxyfXU

[Dr. Mango @VoiceInMyHead35]

@powerpacks I just got my psa graded cards back from gamestop ready to be picked up soon. I could sell back to you at at 90% value to help with the restock if it helps! Can't stop, won't stop #gamestop