R. Rastapopoulos
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@RobRastapop
Cosmos, Flor-Fina, Sondonesia 🇮🇩 - and other improbable ventures.
Opinion: Trump won’t stop anything he’s doing in the Middle East until the market drops sharply. As long as we’re near ATH’s there’s zero chance of a deal or retreat.
If you’re a business owner, tell me you don’t feel what’s happening . We’re on the verge of experiencing remarkable economic growth. Make America Great Again is happening. 5% GDP this year. 10% GDP in 2028 with a stock market that will double every 3.5 years going forward, well into the 2030’s. If you get it you get it. 🇺🇸
For the most devoted fans, Disney has engineered an ecosystem of financial entanglement that goes far deeper than park tickets or merchandise, which keeps the magic—and the debt—perpetually compounding. In 2023, Ashley, a freshman at Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut, had $15,000 in her bank account. Excited by her newfound freedom as a college student, she decided to start going on solo trips. Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida, seemed like an obvious choice. She went during her winter break. Then she returned, six times, in two years. Soon enough, her account balance had dwindled to just five dollars. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many adults who have accumulated Disney debt seem to be chasing a feeling from their childhoods. One woman, who has been to Disney World more than a hundred times, said that visiting the parks takes her back to a time when she had fewer worries: “It’s the nostalgic feeling of what brought you joy when you were little and you didn’t have the stressors of adult life.” Read more about the Disney adults putting themselves in debt for the pursuit of magic: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_JqtFg
Stoicism is popular because apathy is the sickness of our age and stoicism glorifies it. Stoicism is cope for living in a dying society. Stoicism is managed decline. You need to become anti-stoic. You need to become so passionate it’s self-destructive.
