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Considering the search engine company is selling a very popular self driving taxi service, they seem to be quite credible and innovative.

CHWY is -7% per year since Sep 2019, while SP500 is +16% per year, and CHWY has 2% profit margins, give or take. I don’t know what success means, but I would not have wanted to buy CHWY stock anytime after IPO.

How many colleges provide access to the upper crust of society? 10? 20? The vast majority of kids aren’t getting into them anyway, so it’s a moot point for them.

The biggest purchase for my kids is health insurance, and healthcare overall.

State taxpayer funded universities are not that expensive. I figure if my kid is worthy and lucky enough, they will get a scholarship to the elite universities, or they can go to the state taxpayer funded ones for less.

If the state ones get too expensive, there is community college and or just starting an apprentice trade job.

I don’t interpret “juicing” to imply illegal.

So why not give your mom (and all moms) cash? Then they can order food delivery if they want, or not if they don’t.

Fairer, simpler to implement, no avenues for corruption.

>that hardly proves the power of the common man.

What I meant was the 2016 Repub primaries are evidence that the common man votes for who they want, not who the large donors want. The Repub party leadership and previous decision makers were usurped, and hence the idea of MAGA supplanting the Republican Party. More evidence is Dick Cheney and the Bush family becoming quickly irrelevant.

>Trump was a billionaire, able to fund his own campaign, that hardly proves the power of the common man.

He still spent the least and publicly eschewed donations. His skill was being able to connect with the voters that matter (unfortunately).

As far as I can tell, donations after he was elected in 2016 are simply bribes.

Trump famously won without having the largest donors. He only had 1 big backer (Robert Mercer) in 2016 before the Republican primaries, he was assumed to be a joke candidate. After he won the primaries, he finally got some recognition from the establishment, but even then, they were tepid on investing in him because he was assumed to lose the election.

He’s basically proof of the power of the common man’s vote in the US.

>Modern IPO's just reek of investors cashing out

99.9999% of the time someone sells something, the goal is to obtain cash. Throughout all of human history.