/biz/ - Business & Finance

One of my elderly relatives was telling me, back around 2006, about how sorry he felt for kids even then. In the 1960s and 1970s, if he lost a job, he could have another a day or two later. Didn't matter if he had experience in the new field, he tried a bunch of different things. All any employer was looking for was a good work attitude and the ability to learn. All those "Horatio Alger" novels were pretty much real life -- start out in the mail room, get promoted to clerk, learn the industry, move up into management, end up as CEO.

Nowadays unless you have a bachelor's in Mail Room Technology and five years of experience, they won't look at you for an entry-level position in a mail room. Unless of course you're a disabled black lesbian midget, or related to someone in management.

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what's really happening is a disinfo campaign spiraling out of control. They interwove their lies with truth. For example, there were more shorts than there were outstanding stocks, but there isn't any evidence that these shorts have to pay out friday, except for two large hedge funds: melvin capital and chitron. The damage being dealt to these hedge funds is real, but they don't even own a majority of the shorts. This is just the first major pump and dump taking advantage of the reddit and 4chan. The best play here is to just keep scalping the volatility.
If you hold till friday, you'll find yourself jewed