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(3 hours ago)SteamyAmerican Wrote:Well I am also sympathetic to the plight of middle America and the need of diapers. I am also concerned with middle America's obsession with scratch off tickets, and multiple 25 oz beer cans everyday, and packs of cigarettes, and nicotine pouches, and expensive sneakers, and weekly/monthly subscriptions to mind rot, and absurd car loans to look and feel admired, and borrowing money from rich corporations everyday just to eat with the cool people and laugh bout how awesome they are, or snacky cakes. Boxes and boxes of snacky cakes to push that insulin resistance through the roof. The rich and powerful archtype will always exist as long as a structured human society exists no matter the culture . The real problem is the mentality which freely and willfully continues to volunteer away all the energy expended to chase money (other energy) and give it away to others enriching themselves. The pack a day of tobacco is not dealing with stress or taking the edge off ... it is just transferring middle America's hard work into the wallet of someone thousands of miles away. And compounding the effects of physical and emotional destruction.
Example A : Joe/Jane America 1 buy snacky cakes everyday for his/her end of day dopamine stress release. Let us say one single unit, a single unit 25 oz can of beer, and the pack of cigs bought in the morning split across three days. its about 1.99 -2.39 on average for snacky cake todays convenience checkout. The 25 oz beverage is at least the same amount. The cigarettes was like $8.00 if I am splitting the difference from 5 dollar cheap cheyennes or 305's and the high end benson and hedges American spirits type over 11 dollars. Newports vary in this 8$ range now alot. So like 2.65 - 2.80 for the daily unit count. Thats not quite ten dollars a day just on those three daily routine items, but will be after sales tax depending on state and I worked at a gas station very busy ones and some not so. These are daily standard routines for hundreds of thousands, millions of individuals of middle America based solely on the sheer volume I witnessed in a small growing urban metro area. That is nearly fifty dollar a week that will not build value, generate dividends, or contribute to a growing business model of production and/or service. $200/ month in three simple individual voluntary consumption items. I did not even bother with the scratch off tickets they buy, use your imagination
Example B : Kevin/Martha America 2 lives out the same daily grind at the exact same employer. Makes the same exact stops with the same exact people. Goes in just to grab a drink from the water fountain and use the bathroom. Instead of spending that same exact dollar amount daily/weekly/monthly they take that same dollar amount and buy shares of a company or etf. They read, and they study freely with the time and money they no longer volunteered to rich board members with their streaming media subscription. They also contribute and invest this savings to the examples, but we will keep it simple with the amounts from the three alone. The dividends pays monthly or quarterly from the ETF's and the individual companies with structured cash flow and revenue generation streams in the realm of 3-7% or more. Or, understood from another side of the coin, the same consumers making investor/owners wealthier through their voluntary consumption choices. Risk Tolerances (personal fear management) control whether you go for higher multipliers or safer lower ones, but stuff is multiplying no matter what you believe in or the ideas of right or wrong.
Year one, direct cash allocations have generated 0$ under this model for Joe/Jane because they were just operating on a lower frequency of distraction and blame. Kevin and Martha accumulated $2400, at say a modest 4.6% interest for an extra 110$. Seems pitiful, but they have it, and Jane and Joe do not despite all of their gnashing of the teeth and platitudes of fairness and the evil elites. That 2510 depending on the employer they have and a 401k match could easily be double that, goes on into the next year, with growing contributions and continue revenue. This is without assuming they actually invested in emerging industry and technology companies and everything the state demands with contracts etc.. etc..
Same employer, same team even same exact crew with virtually identical income brackets. Our choices and our thoughts based on opportunities available will dictate outcomes above all else.
But war sucks too, and it looks like maybe we can find out if we can continue to play oil options game by Monday afternoon or whether more stable longer term trends are coming up. I much prefer to longer term stuff because once it stabilizes it is consistent and pretty safe and reliable with permanent vigilance. Volatility can be quite the windfall though if your bold and fast. That is a quite an IF though and volatility more often operates like scratch-offs with slightly better odds than scratch-offs vs typical structured long term development.
Can we all just do some damn business together please?







