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Las Vegas, NV Katılım Haziran 2011
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@VitalVegas There's too much saturation to market Vegas as it was
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Unpopular opinion, but simple fact, as we’ve stated often: Pricing is not top-of-mind for most visitors, and is not a driving force behind the recent drop in tourism. reviewjournal.com/business/touri…
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@_The_Prophet__ If anything covid showed me that gen z will do so many side hustles to make money
20% will take note
The rest will be oblivious of what's going on the greatest transfer of wealth is happening
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⚡️Gen Z is living inside a broken time horizon.
That is the real issue.
A $28 lunch is obviously dumb if repeated daily. At the personal level, Kevin O’Leary is right. Small leaks become real holes. People who cannot control recurring expenses usually cannot build capital. Discipline still matters. The math still matters. Nobody gets exempt from compounding because the system is unfair.
But the reason the lecture feels hollow is because the old system used to reward discipline with visible progress. Pack lunch, save money, buy a house, start a family, invest, build a career, retire. Sacrifice was tied to a future that felt reachable.
Now the future feels priced out.
That changes behavior at the root. When housing feels unreachable, careers feel unstable, healthcare feels predatory, dating feels broken, children feel unaffordable, and AI threatens the entry-level ladder, thrift loses its sacred function. It stops feeling like a bridge to ownership and starts feeling like self-denial inside a game already lost.
That is how financial nihilism forms.
People do not say it directly. They say, “I deserve a little treat.” They say, “Everything is expensive anyway.” They say, “What’s the point?” They say, “I’ll never own a house.” They say, “At least lunch makes the day tolerable.”
The $28 lunch becomes a tiny rebellion against a future they do not believe will arrive.
That is why older personal-finance commentary keeps missing the emotional layer. The old advice assumes the listener still believes in delayed gratification. But delayed gratification only works when the delay has a credible endpoint. If the endpoint disappears, delayed gratification starts to feel like humiliation.
So young people consume the present because the future has stopped making a persuasive offer.
There is also a status layer. A lot of modern consumption is not about the object. It is about maintaining self-respect in a system where people feel economically powerless. Coffee, lunch, delivery, clothes, trips, subscriptions, gadgets, nightlife, little comforts. These become micro-status and micro-control. They let people feel briefly like participants in abundance even while their actual ownership path deteriorates.
That is the trap. The spending is both understandable and destructive.
The system damages the future, then sells little present-tense anesthetics to the people who lost faith in it.
Delivery apps, fast casual, lifestyle brands, streaming, subscriptions, social media, gambling, crypto speculation, “self-care,” buy-now-pay-later. All of it feeds on broken time preference. The more unreachable the future feels, the more valuable immediate relief becomes.
That is the real sickness.
A healthy civilization teaches young people: sacrifice now and something real becomes yours later.
A decaying civilization teaches young people: sacrifice now and maybe you still lose, so consume enough to keep functioning.
The $28 lunch is not why Gen Z is financially cooked.
It is what a cooked generation buys on its lunch break.
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
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@VitalVegas Smart smart because when you get a new player's card , the old player's card forgets that he won a jackpot, therefore, he can win another jackpot.😅
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@reviewjournal So wouldn't that mean they should be saving more money than before per kid
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CCSD has nearly 44,000 fewer students now than it did just seven years ago, and state data shows that the greatest enrollment drops at the elementary school level are concentrated in the Las Vegas Valley's poorest ZIP codes.
FULL STORY: lvrj.com/post/3821537

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@Pirat_Nation Reddit has become a household name. I it's more established, ads run the world
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Reddit is testing a new feature that may prevent some users from accessing Reddit on mobile web browsers unless they download the app.
Affected users report seeing a full-screen message asking them to open or install the app before continuing to browse.
Reddit says the test affects only a small number of frequent mobile users and claims the app provides a better and more personalized experience.
Reddit is getting backlash due to making the mobile website harder to use to drive app downloads, boosting advertising and user tracking.


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⚡️The real wound is that the future almost never arrives in a form the present can respect.
In the moment, hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin would have looked absurd. A strange internet token offered for a real performance by a real artist. From inside the status structure of 2009, saying no was probably the normal, socially intelligent response. The people who said yes looked insane.
That is where asymmetric fortune is born.
The world does not hand out generational upside in polished institutional packaging.
It first appears as ridicule, inconvenience, weirdness, embarrassment, confusion, or some strange offer from the edge of the map. The early signal is almost always socially mispriced.
But access alone was never the whole game.
Even if someone accepted the Bitcoin, almost nobody would have held it. They would have sold at $1, $10, $100, $1,000, or during one of the first death cycles. The psychological violence required to hold something from joke to global asset is almost impossible for normal people. The price goes up enough to change your life, then down enough to make you feel stupid, then up again, then the entire world tells you it is dead, illegal, useless, immoral, hacked, doomed, over.
The fortune did not go to people who merely touched Bitcoin early.
It went to the people who saw through the disguise and survived the humiliation phase.
That is the deeper lesson.
Most people do not miss the future because they lack intelligence. They miss it because the future violates their social map. It looks too weird. Too low-status. Too early. Too volatile. Too unserious. Too far outside the category structure they use to decide what is real.
By the time the future becomes respectable, the price has already changed.
Bitcoin in 2009 was one of the cleanest civilizational tests of perception ever created. It separated people who needed permission from people who could recognize structure before legitimacy arrived.
The tragedy is not turning down $16 billion.
The tragedy is that almost everyone would have done the same thing, then called it rational.
Carl Moon 🌙@TheMoonCarl
If you are having a bad day, just remember... In 2009, Lilly Allen turned down an offer of 200K $BTC to perform a gig. Today, it's worth $16.2 billion!!!
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They just let him keep going 😂
Mukhtar@I_amMukhtar
Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.
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