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How much would I have if I invested $100/month in Enron during that same time period?

"when people can participate"

According to the NY State PowerBall Lottery, If you had invested $1 in 23 5 12 34 7 17 on Jul 8, 2025, your investment would now be worth $100M. Capitalism works when people can participate.

Consider this, if you invest in an ice cream vending machines now, where will you be in 10 years?

I'm going to be treated like a pariah for this, but many successful companies (and like, influencers etc) are successful due to government (sometimes CIA) intervention. And none of us know which company is going to be picked and who lobbied the right way and fucked the right people and was a relative of so and so and accidentally did a hit and run or has blackmail on them.

Reminder the CIA had their own airline, available to the public and not known to most of their customers that it was owned by CIA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)

There's also an article directly on the CIA's website about Air America but I am reticent to directly link to them, you can google it though.

My investments/trades have actually done much better since incorporating the idea that the government controls much of the markets, not hardly anyone else. The government makes crypto - Chillguy for instance, Bukele made a national currency of El Salvador. And it's randomly up right now and I'm pretty sure that's because they are funnelling/LAUNDERING the Big Beautiful Bill money into that coin (and others) to pay BRICS currency.

A bunch of these coins are inflating currently, and technically if you take more money from them than you put in, you've successfully waged economic war against them. They usually have a baseline their bots (slaves) maintain - Trump coin is around $7-$8 for eg but can dip lower - and then they will increase this baseline and start swing trading it, usually opposite the US sleeping schedule but not always. They seem to all have different patterns and some switch them every 3 days in line with game theory re: prisoner's dilemma. They run tons of online ads, have influencers talk about the coin, and have slaves talks about it in videos about video games etc to hype people into buying. So there's tons of volatility that they are introducing deliberately and then they swing trade it, sometimes 3 to 6 swings a day.

Ofc this isn't trading advice or me suggesting people band together to attack trades as that could be considered maybe illegal.

Elon also has a lot of coins too, and South Africa is part of BRICS, there's no reason he can't be some kind of asset of theirs or any or several countries. Elon's coins tend to follow a very classic Andrew Tate style immediate rug pull though, as they could simply be payments from who knows to him.

Fartcoin and Trump coin follow the same general patterns as each other.

They also funnel money into Russian coins and Russian memes, as well as Chinese ones and so on.

Any woke themed coin or poor coin is generally a scam meant to hurt poor people and leftists.

And of course, they have donation coins where they basically give money to Nazis and racists, which is how Trump supporters and Nazis and methheads in trailers got so much money - they deliberately have been funding them wirh crypto UBI.

Yah if i could see twenty years into the future I'd have far more than $25 million in the bank

Of course! I should’ve been investing instead of wasting my time in 4th grade. Who would’ve thought?

Last line is the kicker. Capitalism is a pyramid scheme that only works (solely for those at the top who actually collect from said pyramid) when an ever growing percentage of people are cut out from being able to participate in capitalism (don't worry! those people cut out, still contribute to the pyramid).

25mill, sure. Bezos is worth billions.

I don't want to get rich by giving my money to a company that treats the employees like shit

You go back in time to when you're living paycheck to paycheck and zero financial literacy. You convince yourself to invest $100/month in Amazon no matter what, because it will be worth it. You eat nothing but instant ramen, forego preventative care, get sick from malnutrition. Your quality of life is horrible because you forego basic necessities to invest in Amazon. The dot com bubble wipes out 90% of Amazon's value but you continue to invest because your past self told you about this, but if you just endure, Amazon will recover and you will be a millionaire.

In this timeline, Amazon never recovers and goes bankrupt. On Twitter, you read a post about George Shaheen's wedding, and how he's entitled to his billions, despite predatory and exploitative practices, because his wealth could have been yours. If you had only invested $100/month since 1996 into WebVan, you'd be a millionaire.

Investing is, at the end of the day, a gamble.

Don’t forget the cellar boxing and theft of others business after being invited to amazon and then copied.

The AI didn't do the math for you. It just made up a plausible sounding series of statistically likely words. Dumbass. But I don't expect the kind of person who would say this to be smart.

You don't become a billionaire by spending money. It is, by definition, hoarding money.

Edit to add: I also don't take financial advice from chronic gamblers.

You'd have to be clairvoyant to have known that in 1997, though. And if you're clairvoyant, casinos offer a better return on investment.

I was 6, where the fuck am i getting $100 a month.

What a moron.

If people could predict the future stock market speculation and all that wouldn't exist.

Knowing which company will take off is impossible and just guesstigambling.

Yeah and if I kept investing $100 a month in the lottery it could be worth $500M today. Or it could be worthless because, as this clown already knows, no one can predict the next 30 fucking years like some clairvoyant.

OK, Biff, if you're so smart, what's the play right now? Why aren't you investigating $100 a month in a small online bookstore that will one day be a tech supergiant?

You should have invested in the exploration of America

Not everybody can fucking participate, Vijay.

Also, you can't do basic arithmetic.

If you'd invested $100 a month as amazon lost money for years driving 'mom and pop' businesses, starting with those evil bookshop owners, out of business before exploiting monopoly, getting local authorities to pay to host their distribution centres while the employees need food stamps to survive, you'd be rich now. Capitalism works.

Bezos, former hedge fund guy who was given hundreds of thousands from family to start amazon, knows he is despised. He actually personifies the phrase 'shit-eating grin'.

Capitalism works when people can participate

OK then, let's allow all people to participate by giving everyone their fair share of Amazon and other big businesses.

I'm all for communising them. I'm just not sure that capitalism is the right expression for that, but I can't come up with a better word...

And if you're 18 and can't afford housing, remember, his birth date could have been your birth date.

Wow so smart, "Capitalism works when people can participate." FUCK OFF. How about the obscene number of people living paycheck to paycheck or rely on credit cards to get by. They literally don't have $100 to invest in anything other than their daily survival. And it gets worse every day as the cost of living goes up and real purchasing power remains stagnant for so many.

Capitalism works when people can participate - wake me up when these people can participate.

According to Perplexity...

And already I cannot trust your argument on anything whatsoever because you used an LLM to try and prove your point.

Thanks, it's really comforting to know that I could've been participating in exploitation of workers and sellers myself. Monopolized markets are working, guys!