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That's pretty much how most countries made money. Opium wars, slave trade, etc.

The domain is "carbondoomsday". Expecting reliable objective anything from such a site is naive.

> Chelsea Market is an amazing place with great offerings of food etc.

It really isn't. It's a tourist trap, especially with the completion of the High Line. The food isn't good and it's overpriced to take advantage of the tourists.

> As long as this transaction does not ruin the ecosystem of CM then New Yorkers are OK with this transaction.

Like new yorkers' opinions matters in manhattan. The only thing that matters in manhattan are billionaires - whether they be from california, israel, russia, china or anywhere else.

"Conquered".

> Cumulative return for the S&P 500 over the past 9 years (conveniently leaving out the 2008 crash), with dividend reinvestment, is equivalent to a YoY gain of 16.25%

That's a bit disingenuous to use the generational market lows of 2009 as your starting point. It would be like using the all-time highs of 2000 and the 2009 lows as your range. Then the cumulative returns would be negative ( including dividends ).

> However I think it would be foolish to presume that the stock market will continue to post those kind of gains forever.

It's impossible for any economy/market/whatever to maintain a 16% return every year.

Tesla didn't pioneer nor kick off electric cars. The only thing they did is market well. They are the kings of marketing.

We get these type of fads every decade. Cholesterol was bad for you then fats were bad for you. Then it was running. Then hiking. It never ends.

My grandparents lived well into their 90s. All you have to do is eat well and try to be active from time to time.

But there is a growing weightlifting movement with a healthy marketing budget...

> I'm on the fence on this one.

What's there to be on the fence about? It's terrible and a infringement of free speech. But reddit has the right to ban it as a private company. It just make reddit look terrible and hypocritical.

But considering they are planning on IPOing, I guess they have to sell out.

> Are they?

Yes.

> If you distribute movies and media to the public, you normally are breaking laws.

That's not what we are talking about. You can transform any public image for parody, criticism, etc. Porn is considered speech so anyone can make pornographic parodies/etc. This is especially true if fans are doing so for fun and not for profit.

Of course reddit has a right to ban it from their platform, but you as a fan can transform any public image and criticize, parody, etc it.

> Same thing that happened to PCs.

What happened to PCs was market saturation followed by people choosing smartphones over PCs.

It is inevitable that smartphones sales will stall and the growth will decline because the smartphone market is saturated.

It's amazing how these greedy people destroyed millions of lives and they get to live the life of luxury. Sell weed and you are a felon. Peddle addictive opiates to the masses and destroy countless families, you get to be a billionaire.