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More like … I own the sugar plantation so I can use as much sugar as I want … I can dump so much sugar into my lemon flavored water that it will be like selling crack to children. Once they’re hooked, these kids will beg their parents to buy my stuff for cheap … for the rest of their lives!

The sugar laden crap I get them hooked on also causes diabetes which is why I also own the diabetes medication pharmaceutical where these kids will buy their drugs as diabetic adults.

I’ll make money on these dumb kids through every stage of their miserable lives.

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Oh and I fired the kids who started the stand.

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…and paid off the zoning commission to shut down the others, guaranteeing mine is the only legal swill in town.

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“We are in fact the same company”

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Monsanto secret memo, paraphrased: Our competitors are not our adversaries. They are our allies. The customer is our adversary.

Disclosed during a price-fixing investigation.

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Lemon-scented Roundup® is tasty and nutritional, too!

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And also killed the dude that was trying to compete.

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Competitions end. And when competitions end in a world where everything is “run like a business,” the winners are not handed medals, but monopolies.

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They are handed an extinction. Thanks for making a bunch of useless piles of paper.

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That was honestly pretty nice of the first guy to not use piss.

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That´s how you build brand confidence

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So we must buy his because he’s the lesser of two evils! That will fix the lemonade industry

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Whew. I’m glad we solved that.

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Trying to explain this to people I know is nearly impossible. They always think “but when I’m rich I want all the money and no regulation!” Well guess what you work at Walmart and will never be rich so I guess let yourself get endlessly exploited then. There is no ethical billionaire. Maybe not even millionaire tbh.

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As things are, every Millennial and anyone in a later generation is going to have to be a millionaire to retire to a reasonable level of comfort. It could also be true that there are no ethical millionaires. Where does that leave us?

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Can’t speak for y’all, but I’m firmly in “will never be able to retire” territory.

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Ditto. I am putting money away in my 401k like a good little citizen but I have no clue how that money will EVER be enough to support myself (not to mention any one else I might have around) in my old age.

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At this point I don’t even consider 50 million net worth “rich”. There are 2 classes of people. Billionaires and their cronies, and everybody else.

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I think at around 5 million you no longer need to labor to live. You can put that in safe investments and just coast. That’s maybe not super rich, but it’s definitely above a milestone.

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ik a few ethical millionares

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It’s not that hard to be a millionaire by retirement if you have a decently good paying job. Assuming you’re making $84k a year (good money, but hardly “capitalist pig” level) and invest 6% of your income every year in your retirement account (~$5k a year) at a roughly 7% average interest rate (historical stock market average) for 40 years that gets you to $1mil.

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Very true

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