Allow me to provide a different perspective:
"Laporta, Jackson AND Bryson for 2 months of CC who's due 24 million?"
Outside of the few guaranteed soon-to-be stars in the prospect ranks, at the end of the day ALL prospects are lottery chips until proven otherwise.
Would you rather have Tarik Skubal now, or wait to see if Bishop Letson turns into Tarik Skubal in four years?
Run the math on the lunch and it falls apart in about ten seconds.
A $28 lunch every working day is roughly $7,000 a year. That is the entire prize for never eating out again.
Now look at what actually moved. The median US home went from $321,500 in 2019 to about $420,300 in 2024. That is nearly $99,000 in five years, close to $20,000 a year. A Gen Z worker who banks every single lunch saves $7,000 while the house they are chasing gets $20,000 more expensive in the same twelve months.
You can do everything Kevin says and still lose ground.
Zoom out and it gets worse. Since 1980 home prices are up 551% and incomes are up 373%. The price-to-income ratio went from 3.65 to over 5. The distance between what a salary buys and what a house costs is the whole story, and no amount of skipped sandwiches closes a gap that compounds faster than anyone can save.
The lunch was never the variable.
The math gets funnier when you check who is giving the lecture. Kevin took just under $15 million to be the face of FTX, put around $9.7 million of it into crypto that went to zero, and held a $1 million stake that also went to zero. The man telling 23-year-olds that lunch is why they stay poor lit more money on fire in one bad bet than most of them will earn in a lifetime.
A $28 plate of ham and cheese was not the problem.
Should be no surprise to anyone that a team that toed the line with LSU multiple times at the beginning of the year snuck one here (I know they were up 10-0 but they still snuck it)
It’s a nonsense conspiracy that Bill Gates could dropping “tick bombs” to make us allergic to red meat, except for years bioethicists published scientific papers arguing that it would be “immoral” NOT to deploy these ticks.
I’m serious — they literally said this.
He has nothing to run on.. he has abandoned every campaign promise he’s ever made.
We went to war. We expanded our debt. We did not bring back manufacturing.