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[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

Nothing like the smell of baked apple pies and… garbage in the morning? Download Franky’s adventures from @frankythefrog and try out the tournament they are hosting with @garbagefriends for your chance at some sweet P2E action and having some fun while you’re at it!

[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.

[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

@Senators Mr. Sanderson

[GameStop @gamestop]

An official announcement from GameStop

[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

@fordenad

[Franky the Frog @frankythefrog]

Franky GO! 🐸

Coming soon to @AbstractChain.

[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

@frankythefrog @Abstract_Eco

[Franky the Frog @frankythefrog]

Look at the skies 🌤️

A new event begins next week.

[🐡 FishBallerz 🎣 @FishBallerz]

Will you all be our Valentine, Crewmates?

[Animation Plus @AnimationPlus_]

FRIDAY FINDS: Sloppy Studios

This Friday we’re highlighting “Goblin News” by @Sloppy_Studios

Sloppy Studios is an independent animation studio founded by Sloppypencil.

A 2D animator with over 10 years of experience, mostly known as a former animation supervisor on Rick and Morty.

We are a small team of passionate artists who love independent animation.

Catch us live as we love to share and teach all the steps of the animation making process.

Cheers!

Check out @Sloppy_Studios and keep up to date with “Goblin News” and pop over to their YouTube channel with the link in our bio! Stick around for more Friday Finds!

Happy Friday! 🤘

#fridayfinds

[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

@BillboardChris @soarathena Can’t spell BlackRock without LaRock

[Larry Cheng @larryvc]

I just dropped off 19 cards at @GameStop to be PSA graded. It was an easy process. All the cards were in sleeves, they took pictures of them, put labels on them, packaged them up, got my Pro discount and done in <10 minutes.

Not all stores support this service yet so check in advance, but more stores are being trained every month.

[Cris 𓆏 @xinsanityo]

Giving away one @frankythefrog NFT

Current floor price .1164 eth and something with abstract coming up

s/o to @KaufiBreak

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[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

@SavedSoulsNFT @Ocaptain2023 @base Merry Christmas @DirtyUnicorn420 !

[🛟 Saved Souls 🛟 @SavedSoulsNFT]

🎄Merry Christmas from the team over at Saved Souls. To Celebrate we're giving away this Soul for the next 48 hours🎄.

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Have a Happy Holiday and spread lots of love wherever you can.

🛟🎁

[cozyboy09 @killacayn]

@Sloppy_Studios @FishBallerz

[Sloppy Studios @Sloppy_Studios]

What are Mauricio and the Swarm plotting?

[atomicthebearded @atomic9361]

Blows my mind seeing projects take in 1000,10000 and more eth for a year later to be at zero or close. Then we have founders like @SloppyPencil the grinds and creates and builds 24/7 for the last 2 and a half years straight and folks still fading. Regrets will be had I assure you

[Larry Cheng @larryvc]

GameStop 2024 CEO comp:

Cash: $0
Options: 0

GameStop 2024 Board member comp:

Cash: $0
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$GME