Not sure if the original tweet is a joke, but $200,000 in 1881 is around $8 million now.
Not so “simple” at all. And a house like that back in 1881 would’ve been expected to have 4-6 servants doing things.
Day: June 3, 2026, 11:27 AM
Swapmeet – I Know!
Nice noisy song and I like Venus’s messy haircut and her outfit.
Change of Venue
I’m old enough to remember when fast food places were welcoming and had a feeling of conviviality. Yes, the corporate version…but still.
Now they are greige bland brutalist Eastern bloc-feeling sites of void-yearning nothingness.
And the food is also incredibly bad now while being expensive.
Witnit
Eh, that is only really true for mature companies. For start-ups and companies without a large revenue base stock sales absolutely do finance investment and capex. In fact, that’s the whole fucking purpose of them in the first place! Why would you write something this transparently wrong and stupid?
I hate this kind of smug but incorrect (but correct in some situations) clowninshness. We’ve allowed nitwits and pseudointellectuals to dominate all.
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