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I know that you don't like me too well, but I have always seemed to like the way that you think. I don't think of you as some white bred over advantaged fuck, at all. |
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I extremely applaud you for giving a fuck, and that is all amazing, but feed the starving children here in the states. Why does everyone always give so much help to other countries? There are people in need right here in the states. Everyone is too busy donating to other countries and animal foundations... you know.. help people in the states. |
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Why you (Minte) think I'm hassling you is a mystery...someone came in and said you inherited your daddies business..I didnt say that - someone else did... I was just saying how refreshing it would be if a guy who was born into wealth would just admit it and not be so defensive about it. With your over reaction to my simple statements you are proving the stereotype for me.
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Also, let it serve as a timeless lesson that just because someone doesn't know what someone else makes or does one shouldn't assume one or the other and treat them with any less respect accordingly. :2 cents::2 cents: I know one of the most successful people in this industry still drives the beater he drove over 15 years ago. He started at the bottom. Now, he makes more in 60 seconds than most people here make in a year; in all likelihood the first billionaire of online adult, but he is so low key and humble about it that I have literally seen people talk at him like he is a one sale a week CCbill not even covering beer money webmaster posting about whether stats are up or down for everyone else. :upsidedow |
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And just to add my own thoughts: even if you *do* know what someone else does or doesn't make, that shouldn't be a factor in how you treat them (plenty of good reasons to give someone shit or not, but solely on $$$ earned or not earned, isn't one of them) :2 cents: |
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His son however has done nothing in life and is such a drunk that he is now living on an Indian reservation where his inability to function is somewhat more tolerated. He gets a few hundred a week from a trust fund designed to protect him. There is another guy who I know from an extremely wealthy California family who inherited a mint when his parents passed away in an accident. It all went on blow and alcohol and it got to the point where his siblings and his own lawyers had to cut him off. He eventually overdosed on Vancouver's skid row. Certainly a lot of people do well with entitlement, but I have found it can really fuck some people up. |
not me :1orglaugh:1orglaugh
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Minte, I will be thinking about you Monday night when my Bears beat your Packers :thumbsup
Go Bears :) |
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I was raised in an area of mostly very poor people, my family included. I didn't really notice since that was just the norm until I got to college. The rich kids really blew my mind. I didn't realize some of these kids got boob jobs and nose jobs as part of their high school graduation gifts. Weird shit to me.
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Born Rich is meaningless. Someone born to a family that has a few million tucked away has a big advantage over poor people but that kind of advantage usually gets squandered away within a couple generations or less. The market self-corrects for that sort of thing.
Born WEALTHY on the other hand is something entirely different. I'd bet you not a single person on GFY was born wealthy and other than one or two, not a single person on GFY has any chance of having their children born wealthy. When someone is born with a trustfund of a few hundred million... that doesn't ever go away. Decendents of railroad tycoons, banking vultures and oil titans, even several generations later are all playing by a very different set of rules. Stop thinking people like Minte and people like the OP are so different. The gap between them may be large but it is tiny when compared to the gap between either of them and NFL Team owners. Millionaires and the poor are both being abused by Billionaires and yet they still think they so different from each other. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. |
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At the same time, my older brother, inherited millions of dollars when he was seventeen. He spent the next twenty-five years or so living well, never worked a day in his life... Until the money ran out. Suddenly he was forty-five and had never ever worked a day in his life. |
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What, should he be abandoned by the parents and only then you would agree that he worked? |
I do not understand what the problem is with Minte taking over and running a business he didn't start himself? I'd be proud to take over a family business and see it flourishing, wouldn't you? He's not being anything other than genuine when posting pics of his business headquarters, he's proud of it and you would be the same if it were you. Unlike 99.9% of people here he can actually back what he says up, and never makes a show of it. :2 cents:
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Imagine if you were the most hardworking man who would start working at your fathers company and eventually take it over you would still be called only the one who "worked". Even if you were the most hard working person in the entire company you would still be called the one who "worked". Just because your father had the company. Conflicting logic. :2 cents: |
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If my family owned a small convenience store that I eventually took over then took from being 1 small store to a statewide chain of stores that is still a very impressive accomplishment. |
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It's an entirely different way of life. You think in terms of having a million and wanting three million. Having three million and wanting 17 million. When you start with 300 million in tax free investments you don't have to think about getting to 500 million. When you have 2 billion, 10 billion doesn't buy you anything 2 billion couldn't. With generational wealth it's points not dollars. :2 cents: |
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The Bears are due..I think it's been 3 1/2years since they beat the Pack? :) |
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[QUOTE=Rochard;19854210]Do you or do you not run the business that your father started?
QUOTE] I run a business that my father and I started together. He retired in the mid 80's and passed away in the late 90's. I have answered you this before in detail. You won't forget again, right? |
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Our resin supplier and their CFO was here this afternoon. I was busy. And as far as being oddly quiet. If you have friends that have done well, ask them this question sometime. What is harder. making a fortune or keeping it? |
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Wow that is awesome. You are a good man. How much is each meal? |
congrats on the accolades and noms, minte!
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Far-L and his brother are from a rich family, every article written about Homegrown mentions some famous elite private school they went to.
And weirdly, somebody told me a long time ago that XXXJay comes from a very wealthy family. I'm from a middle to upper middle - depends on what the definition of upper middle class is. |
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So you didn't take over your daddy's business, the two of you "built it together". That's ten time worse than your father giving it to you. Your father, a man twice as old as you, with twice as much business experience, and the ability to raise one hundred times more capital... Helped you. If you did this on your own at age twenty-three you would have failed. Without your father you would have had nothing at all. If my daddy came to me twenty or thirty years ago and said "Let's a build a business" and I got to use his line of credit (that is a lot more than a broke twenty-five year old has access to) I too would have a business would be building a fountain in front of my huge office building too. (You know I love giving you a hard time. Email me already so we can talk off of GFY. I don't have any contact information for you.) |
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I know what AD is referring to because I went to school with the super elite, as did my bro. You know everyone thought the Beatles came from money and the Stones from the other side of the tracks when the exact opposite was true. Assumptions... well... we all know how assumptions work... And you seem to be making a lot of those these days. Don't harm yourself with assumptions unless you want to Markharm yourself with presumptions. |
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