talk is cheap

i remember during covid i was telling everybody that we were gonna end up with totally bananas price gouging due to businesses going under and oligopolies and oligarchs consolidating power and everybody was like maaaaaybe and i was like it's gonna happen and it's gonna be really bad. and now the price of a sandwich has tripled. and ive legiterally never voted a democrat for president before and i generally hated biden but i told everybody, look, biden has several good appointments at the FTC who are making progress in some seriously important trust busting cases, which is the only thing that might stop the domino fall of our economy due to this monopoly shit, so you gotta vote for harris bc she'll keep those people in office and the lawsuits will hopefully continue. it's our only shot at prosperity for the next 20+ years. i don't think any of that shit made a lick of difference to anyone all it did was make my ego bigger which doesn't even help me bc im trying to be cool and humble and shit. this shit sucks. 8 years ago! don't call me cassandra cause this shit was obvious. the literal most basic understanding of capitalist economic theory elucidates

i also said at the time that the end of the pandemic would see a massive boom in the sports market, probably women's especially, mirroring the massive boom in men's professional and collegiate sport after the spanish flu. and i said i won't be the only one to predict this and try to capitalize on it, investors will be ready to pour money into this bc of increased ticket sales as soon as restrictions ease up. if only i had a single penny to invest in it at the time. lo and behold

btw whether ppl believed me or not abt the oligopolies, they would look at me like i was that french guy who ate babies for saying it. on here especially. this was considered an evil opinion by all. well it wasn't an evil opinion it was a correct fact. and that doesn't even mean the shutdowns were right or wrong dummies it's just an obvious natural consequence that would maybe have been good for people to be aware of

and it really does boggle my fucking mind bc didn't we all learn basic capitalist economic theory in high school? the entire basis is competition. that's the entire advantage of capitalism over communism, mercantilism, socialism, etc. so OBVIOUSLY monopolies are undesirable, which ADAM SMITH, THE MAIN CAPITALISM GUY warned about. I thought everybody knew that shit what the hell

oh yeah we're gonna shut all the small and medium businesses down but allow walmart and amazon and other industry giants to continue operating. bc we're democrats and we value human life. and then we're gonna all get mad bc of the bad economy and be republicans and vote for the monopolist ceo best pal in the whole world, maybe he will fix this. let me tell u guys something right now. buy gold

i remember during covid i was telling everybody that we were gonna end up with totally bananas price gouging due to businesses going under and oligopolies and oligarchs consolidating power and everybody was like maaaaaybe and i was like it's gonna happen and it's gonna be really bad. and now the price of a sandwich has tripled. and ive legiterally never voted a democrat for president before and i generally hated biden but i told everybody, look, biden has several good appointments at the FTC who are making progress in some seriously important trust busting cases, which is the only thing that might stop the domino fall of our economy due to this monopoly shit, so you gotta vote for harris bc she'll keep those people in office and the lawsuits will hopefully continue. it's our only shot at prosperity for the next 20+ years. i don't think any of that shit made a lick of difference to anyone all it did was make my ego bigger which doesn't even help me bc im trying to be cool and humble and shit. this shit sucks. 8 years ago! don't call me cassandra cause this shit was obvious. the literal most basic understanding of capitalist economic theory elucidates

i also said at the time that the end of the pandemic would see a massive boom in the sports market, probably women's especially, mirroring the massive boom in men's professional and collegiate sport after the spanish flu. and i said i won't be the only one to predict this and try to capitalize on it, investors will be ready to pour money into this bc of increased ticket sales as soon as restrictions ease up. if only i had a single penny to invest in it at the time. lo and behold

So many women have internalized the idea that being difficult makes people think less of them, when in my experience the opposite is almost always true. Every single time I have spoken up, voiced what I actually need and refused to shrink the moment in order to be more comfortable for everyone else in the room, I have been approached afterward by people who wanted to know me better. There is no reward waiting for you on the other side of making yourself smaller. People do not love you more for taking up less space, they simply get used to you taking up less space and adjust their expectations accordingly. Every time I have been exactly as audacious as the moment required, it has opened doors rather than closed them and I have made real connections directly because of it rather than in spite of it.

mint mobile freakin rocks i get a 10 day international pass for 20 bucks and free roaming in canada it's so stress free

also i pay my phone bill once a year which rocks. but if i don't have enough money when the time rolls around, i just get one or two months at a slightly higher rate and buy a full year when i have the bread again. a full year of unlimited data is 360 bucks. that's 30 bucks a month.

look upon my work, ye mighty, and this pear 🍐