Crepitus
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Even you could manage that with a starting point of $60 million and Fred's reputation to help.
So not exactly the feat he claims it to be.
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Zone1 If you want to understand who Musk and Trump truly are, this is the thread.
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So not exactly the feat he claims it to be.
Moonglow
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I learned many trades over the years and started young, I never finished high school or college, but did graduate in two MOS schools in the army (electronics and electrical maintenance)and used them along with my trade as a mason to earn a lot of dough, plus I have always been in management positions since I was twenty-five.Skill, hard work, connections, knowledge earned/learned, and luck? Good luck and timing have played a role?
Hmm...
My old man was a stockbroker but I did not care much for that trade or wearing a tie and a suit. I wanted to go to law school but didn't have the dough or the desire to get into a lot of debt.
Dante
Chriis Murphy "cerebral and serious"
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Oh more than that through the years. See how trusts work, and how Donald manipulated family members to his own benefit. Any malfeasance would be overlooked because Donald would game the legal system and more. He has that history and what he did to family members with ailing and sick children is despicable at best.
It's all a public record: note Meister, you asked for links
Even when it comes to a sick baby in his family, Donald Trump is all business. The megabuilder and his siblings Robert and Maryanne -- The Judge (how do people believe she got her Judgeships - NY state corruption?)? -- terminated their nephew’s family medical coverage a week after he challenged the will of their father, Fred Trump. “This was so shocking, so disappointing and so vindictive,” said niece Lisa Trump, whose son, William, was born 18 months ago at Mount Sinai Medical Center with a rare neurological disorder that produces violent seizures, brain damage and medical bills topping $300,000.
Moonglow
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Money changes people from being killer party buds to paranoid freaks over money.
Dante
Chriis Murphy "cerebral and serious"
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I've seen that, but I've also worked for and have been around middle class people who became seriously wealthy. Many kept their roots upfront.
I guess if a sociopath makes some $$$ it is not the wealth that corrupts their minds. A sociopathic mind needs no corrupting
Moonglow
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I have met several of those people in the last fifty years, I commended them for their determination and strength. I came from a German family that were sodbusters and cotton pickers in Texas in the 1890's and Okiehoma in the 1920s those were my grandparents. My family has a long tradition of being veterans and hard-working folks who are the salt of the Earth. I gave that same equality to my kids and taught them trades at a young age, we also grow our own food.
Moonglow
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I never changed, hell people still think I am an unkept brute.
Winston
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It’s Official: Trump Would Be Richer If He Had Just Invested His Inheritance Into The S&P 500
Trump’s fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn’t come roaring back.
www.forbes.com
No, the above is saying something.
Dante
Chriis Murphy "cerebral and serious"
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Ain't it the Truth.It’s Official: Trump Would Be Richer If He Had Just Invested His Inheritance Into The S&P 500
Trump’s fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn’t come roaring back.
No, the above is saying something.
Moonglow
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One may say that is a character out of the past.You mean you're not?
Your posts look to be...
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never mind, no personal attacks in Clean Debate zone
Winston
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That is absolutely delusional. As documented, had Trump merely invested his inheritance into an index fund he would be worth more money than he is today. Not surprising really. Multiple bankruptcies, resulting in the shafting of countless investors. Refusing to pay contractors, litigating in court simply to run out the clock.
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:14-30 - English Standard Version
The Parable of the Talents - “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at...
Winston
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I really don't think most posters here have any experience with people as wealthy as Trump and Musk. Generational wealth saps the strength of the economy. Warren Buffet, Carnegie, they both intuitively knew this. Trump, the Koch's, they were not raised right.
Moonglow
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These people live for their wealth and no I have never hung out with filthy rich assholes and I doubt I would want to.
Dante
Chriis Murphy "cerebral and serious"
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That is absolutely delusional. As documented, had Trump merely invested his inheritance into an index fund he would be worth more money than he is today. Not surprising really. Multiple bankruptcies, resulting in the shafting of countless investors. Refusing to pay contractors, litigating in court simply to run out the clock.
Bible Gateway passage: Matthew 25:14-30 - English Standard Version
The Parable of the Talents - “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at...www.biblegateway.com
“To whom much is given, much is required”
I see people seem to have been triggered by mere mentions of Trump and wealth. What I don;t see here in this thread is some defense of the Musks and their...
It's as if Musk will eventually be a fall guy when the blame game begins.
Dogmaphobe
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I guess I am just not resentful enough.
Silly me, ofI judge both men on what they do and the sorts of things for which they stand
Silly me, ofI judge both men on what they do and the sorts of things for which they stand
S&P what? A mutual fund?? That would all depend on which stocks in the S&P 500.It’s Official: Trump Would Be Richer If He Had Just Invested His Inheritance Into The S&P 500
Trump’s fortune plunged at the outset of the pandemic, but unlike the overall stock market, his real estate empire hasn’t come roaring back.
No, the above is saying something.
You do understand that not all the stocks in the S&P 500 make money....or do you?
He invested in property and became a multi billionaire instead.
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