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They do that now; it's called creating some silly fad. Unfortunately for them not everyone participates.

If you had a '70s car in the '80s it meant that you were too poor to come up with the money to get that 7MPG monkey off your back and get a 40MPG four-cylinder. You'd see cars that were 5 years old getting run over by monster trucks and in demolition derbies since the old boats were totally worthless. OR it meant that you made so much money that you didn't care that gas went from 50 cents a gallon to $1.50 in a year.

That's why it's a lot better to start with a car that's already pretty much junk BUT runs every day. Back in the '90s cars like that were all over the place for $200 but now they are $1500+. You'd scrap the $200 car for $50 when it was used up. Pizza guys used to be best friends with my buddy's dad's junkyard as their cars ground down. Starters for example are not designed to be used more than a few times in one hour. I often wonder how much less the delivery drivers make at a place where the pizza place owns the car. There's one like that near me and of course it used to be that Pizza Huts had those Chevy Luv trucks that had the little Pizza Hut roof on them. Tony Hawk drove one in Gleaming the Cube:

Protip: The "bootstrappting" brand is terrible among people who aren't rich or have empathy for people who aren't rich. "Hustle" is better, but still reminds us that the job situation in this country isn't good.

We have multiple passive and semi-passive income streams that have helped us significantly, but since we inherited them I don't count them for this discussion. That information doesn't help anyone that doesn't have that advantage.

NASCAR's move away from cookie-cutter 1.5 mile oval tracks such as Kentucky has been sudden and drastic. Hardcore fans have been calling for it for close to 20 years but only this year has there been major movement in that direction.

Double digit money-outs are worth worrying about; double digit money-ins aren't unless there are many, many of them -- unless you are in poverty where they make all the difference in the world. Also, networking events are far more important in a city like Columbus where nobody knows each other in contrast to Cincinnati where everybody does. I still feel like I am better networked in Cincinnati than Columbus despite having left Cincinnati 11 years ago. Obviously the fact that I have been pinned in my stores instead of having office jobs that offer networking opportunities other than 19-year-old gamers attaching themselves to me during that time plays a factor. The less time I spend in the stores the better I do. EDIT: to clarify, I mean ACTIVE double digit stuff due to schedule disruptions, costs associated with them and opportunity cost. I'll take any passive double digit stuff.

Rightie rhetoric leaves off that part. People who went to college know that. Again, different sources for people who went and who didn't plus different interpretations by people who went and those who didn't.

Or even if some car breakdowns that wouldn't have happened if their folks bought them a reliable car intervened and kept them from being where they needed to be reliably.

No, it's the fact that other people, many who are not businesspeople, are tricked (or the rhetoric is trying to trick them) into thinking that boostrapping is that very thing.

Bootstrap rhetoric doesn't acknowledge that and instead treats it as a guarantee.

Problem is bootstrapping is a gamble rather than a guarantee. It's a big risk. I have worked far too many jobs where the other people would never make anything of themselves despite boostrapping. It ruined their lives.

Basically, users here are inadvertently pointing out what happens when people who went to college hear when they hear certain things from their sources that are aimed at people who went to college, while either not understanding or ignoring the rhetoric's effect on people who didn't go and the very different sources they obtain their information from. This is how the R's lost so many college graduates -- not because of liberal professors. The hillbilly stuff took over the party and shouted down the Connecticuts to a degree that college graduates get grossed out at the 2nd grade insults and elementary school explanations. The problem with bootstraps is that they keep people from being smart and thinking about big ideas like strategy and networking and instead on endless operational tasks. This is where brutus' AOC bartender insult comes in. Had AOC just taken the menial, dead-end warehouse job at one of these bottom-heavy huge companies for half as much per hour as bartending that would be far more respectable. That way she'd work twice as much for the same amount of money and be denied the networking opportunities and sales skills that come with bartending. That way she'd still be in the warehouse instead of the House and could not terrorize brutus. When everyone takes on the bootstrap mentality they all stay cogs and the value of human labor is decreased -- the real goal. There are no big ideas when you bootstrap.

^Exactly, because even millionaires notice $1000 a month leaving. The Rs don't give a crap about someone until they are worth $5-10M. They try to make anyone who makes more that $40K feel like they're rich and just a few years away from being filthy rich and "taxed to death". "In only 6-18 months..."

That's when they're talking to building trades and auto-related businesspeople that don't see through their crap since those businesses' success is based far more on their sales ability and technical skills rather than market analysis.

Also Jeff Bezos is the most overrated businessperson of the 21st century. All he did was put the Sears catalog on the internet, create an R&D slush fund so that Amazon has little to no tax burden then get into streaming 5 years after Netflix did and webhosting 10 years after Yahoo did and treat employees like crap like the coal mines did.

This is all a part of the complete lie that the Right constantly pushes that rich people are being paid in wages.

Variations in product demand (and input supply) don't give a f*ck about your bootstraps and have far more of an effect on a business than the work of one individual.

Bootstraps are a much better way to kill yourself than they are to get rich. Columbus is full of bootstrap widows.

They were during quarantine. The Columbus TV news interviewed pawn shops at the time and they said they were getting more stuff in than they had ever seen.

Considering Kentucky's horrible taste in politicians, I'm not surprised Beshear's approval rating is that low.

Restaurants and bars only got PPP money based on wages, not tips, so they didn't get nearly as much per worker as non-tipped businesses.

The girls don't take their clothes off anymore since every person in the room has a camera on them and the ability to broadcast the pictures. Either that or I'm too old.

And if they did shoot film, much of the time it was on a terrible disposable camera.

Yes. Bigger than it was in the '90s.