duane.find

Serial Entrepreneur who has won and lost many times. I love God and love to help others! I'm only on this earth for those two reasons.

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@RobSchneider @TPUSA Yes!!!!

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@Jentezen Amen 🙏🏼

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

Proposal to acquire eBay.
https://t.co/FwjcxbDmyt

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Mic drop @ryancohen - I’ll serve on your board for free.

[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.

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@elonmusk Yep

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@elonmusk @grok @grok There are only two genders!

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@elonmusk @grok @grok Was the whole Elon & Trump fight just them acting so Liberals would like Tesla again? 🤪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is why the Democrats want to destroy me
https://t.co/6kreKPNPbf

[ngbshpend.eth 🍌 @NGBxShpend]

Bored Apes are not securities

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@mcuban You’re starting to make sense again Mark. I was worried about you for while with your pre-election interviews

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@JohannaNyman5 Probably too busy hanging with U2 at the concert.

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@unusual_whales They won’t be allowed into NATO

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@BernieSanders Social Security is a Ponzi scheme! At least make it optional. Allow citizens to opt out.

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@RepCasar Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme! Make it optional at the least. Allow people to opt out.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

He’s mad that @DOGE is dismantling the radical-left shadow government in full view of the public.

This is our ONE CHANCE to return POWER to the PEOPLE from an unelected BUREAUcracy back to DEMOcracy!!

Only with the support of YOU can this succeed. Thank you, unknown soldiers.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Did you know that over $100 billion dollars in COVID payments was stolen by professional foreign fraud rings?

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@america @elonmusk Feels weird to press heart on stuff like this @elonmusk - we need an alternative button like a broken heart 😢

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#Winning

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This shows how much your voice matters!

And having a President like @realDonaldTrump means that your voice is finally heard.