Marco

Student of life | Dreamer | Creation |

1/27/21 $GME bag hodler for DECADES

[Marco @Marco40576115]

Not as much as people not from Chicago like to.

[Emma @overdahedgestan]

Chicago people love to be like I live in Chicago

[Marco @Marco40576115]

What is life if you just stop testing your own limitations?

[LIFE @Podcastvault101]

you can spend years living a perfectly comfortable life while quietly going nowhere. you don’t hate your life, but you’re not building anything either. you stop learning unless you’re forced to. stop setting goals until money or circumstances scare you into action. spend more time discussing what’s happening in the world than what you’re actually doing with your own life. and the scariest part? you may not even notice it happening. sometimes the real danger isn’t being unhappy. it’s becoming so comfortable that you stop asking yourself what you’re capable of.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@RachelSTWood I needed to read this. Becoming productive was a way for me to get out of my thoughts but it's become something slightly obsessive. Slowly learning to just be and come to better terms with my internal monologue.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@rnewton7777 I want to let you know that you are wrong about your prediction of wrongness and that you sir are therefore correct! 😂

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@msmeliss024 Buffalo Joe's on Clark

[aether @bluewdrift]

according to philosophy, the highest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, admired, pitied or even known.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@MSNMIZ Orrrr stop being lazy and MAXIMIZE FLAVOR. Sear the meat on all sides, take off, throw the veg on to cook with the meat juices and throw in the meat to finish off.

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

REPOST for a chance to win an autographed Miguel Vargas baseball.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@MrBeast 19,130,000

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@rnewton7777 Spot on, Richard! I share the same sentiments. I've come to the conclusion of enjoying the journey and not so much focused on the destination as i can remain solvent longer than the other side of this trade can!

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Getting in shape is a spiritual process that’s disguised as a physical one.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@barrybutler9 @chicagoyc 🥺

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@fiago7 Native Chicagoan here and we feel the same about Marina Towers. Such a gem 💎

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@Polymarket FTB

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@ChicagosMayor @ChicagoMPO Better statement than your asshat Governor. Get it done then.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@GovPritzker You're a disgrace, JB

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@Nithya_Shrii Prices yeah but idk about products like purple ketchup and shit lmao

[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.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@MarioNawfal Of course the math will not math without knowledge of capital market mechanics and bid structures/strategies.

[Marco @Marco40576115]

@edwinbarnesc Accurate