How to become morbidly wealthy in America

[KT2000]

Let's also be honest about how the super wealthy got where they are. There are many maneuvers, loopholes, and schemes that create immense wealth. What are they - I will start:

Create a holding company that buys up midsize manufacturers in the US and ships the jobs to China and other countries while maintaining a US presence through its computer system. Lost jobs

Create a private equity firm that buys companies and runs them into bankruptcy by taking all taking the cash, selling off assets, and charging the company enormous fees. Lost jobs

Buying up real estate and houses to jack up the prices for sale and rentals so housing becomes unaffordable for more people. More people without homes to live in

There are more and we are expected to subsidize them as well. I wish all politicians were not so afraid to offend these predatory leeches.

[rsdsharp]

1. Well, I got 50% of that. Not too bad, huh?🤔

[KT2000]

2. What do you mean?

[rsdsharp]

4. Well, I'm not wealthy, so it must be obese(ly).

I’ve probably got 50% of the edit, too.

[ColoringFool]

3. Obscenely?

[KT2000]

5. I changed it to morbidly

because I was picking up on Tom Hartmann's phrase from a few days ago. Just as a morbidly obese person is slowly killing themselves, the morbidly wealthy are killing their prey and ultimately devouring what made them wealthy in the first place.

[Redleg]

6. Step 1: don't become a college professor

Step 2: Become a college football or basket coach instead.

[Xavier Breath]

7. 3. Get a yuge contract with guaranteed money and then suck so hard the school's benefactors scream for your head.

Enjoy your unearned, tens-of-millions in retirement. Damn, what a plan

[Redleg]

10. I think I could do that- the problem is getting in the door, not having a couple of losing seasons

I should include university presidents and higher-level administrators among those who seem to be over-paid.

[Xavier Breath]

8. Dupe.

[harumph]

9. Also, you can win the birth lottery.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Corporate leaders should study Aesop's Fables. Start with The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs.

These ignorant "businesspeople" seem intent on destroying the systems, the norms, the environment that made them rich in the first place.

[Redleg]

13. I call it the FYIGM mentality (read below for what FYIGM means)

F@ck You, I Got MIne

[AStern]

12. And they did all while they were simultaneously unfairly taxed!!!

Imagine that!