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It hit me the other day that the best, the absolute most perfect image of the *wage slave* is that dude/chick you see during rush hour scratching lottery tickets on their steering wheel!
Funny, a little bit dangerous,....
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....and kind of sad.
Not for anything, but some of my best friends are *wage slaves*.
Heck, Mrs. C-Nut is one and she'll stay that way until I ever decipher the vagaries of stock market gyrations, prostitute my ravishing bod for its full marketable value, or develop some other income stream.
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Y'all realize that lottery tickets and the like are a voluntary, regressive tax, right?
In this day and age, there really shouldn't be any shock that a pol who co-opted *hope* was just elected President.
Just for kicks, ask the cashier at a convenience store, bodega, gas station, or packy if customers, "spend a lot on scratch tickets".
5 comments:
Here's my emotional, mock-fascist reaction to this one for the day: how about when someone walks in to a shop to purchase a scratcher they're just immeadiately blown away instead?
You could always get rich by following this guys trades (assuming he's for real):
http://xpositions.blogspot.com/
Jreality,
Thanks for that link. I bought FAS 50 cents cheaper than him yesterday!
Though, I admit I bought a few less than 5,000 shares.
Captious,
Good luck with the FAS trade.
BTW, all the trades at XPositions are said to have been made by a trader named Sol. Him and another trader are both on XTrends.blogspot.com, which is their main website.
The other trader is named Atilla M. Demiray. I think Atilla is a more controversial trader. He thinks he is going to be in the next revision of Market Wizards, and has a big ego, but he often stomachs some very bad drawdowns. He sometimes makes eerily spot-on calls but sometimes is way off. Sol is appears to be more of a shorter-term trader than Atilla.
I don't follow either one (or I'd be rich by now), but if given a choice it probably would be Sol.
Wish I had the guts to Sol's position sizes, but I doubt I'd be able to sleep at night, even if my trading account size was large enough to be able to do so.
I meant FAZ - the triple short.
JReality,
Yeah, I perused that site a bit. I'm going to highlight it in a post of my own.
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