It’s not even an article about Alexis Ohanian.

That was my take. A pretty piss poor article overall.

Their accomplishments don’t mean they deserve to be worth 270 million dollars.

I should note, by the way, that I’ve not got a thing against you Nathan- you normally come off as a guy with common sense and a slick sense of humour. However, your obsession with this dude’s wealth meaning he lacks the ability to empathise with people in a place he once was exudes... well, something other than what…

This is it. Really sounds like Nathan is stopping himself just short of saying, “People with lots of money are incapable of knowing what it’s like to have little money or of advocating for change, so I wish Mr. Reddit woulda shut up.”

So the only problem here is that he’s rich, basically?

Yes, yes it does. Williams “worth” is in most bs marketability. Ohanians worth is mostly made up of actual assets

Pretty sure he’s got more than $5 and a stick of gum in his pocket.

That doesn’t at all change the point.

And it was bullshit.

Yeah, it’s an abject lesson in hypocrisy. Fraud and market manipulation and supposedly ‘crimes’ but what would the stock market be without that? They got out played at their own games and now they’re flipping the board.

PSH! Mine too. I just feel bad to everyone who got in, and got locked out when Robinhood turned everything off. 

Edit: whoops let me read a little bit better. The problem is Robinhood and other apps accounted for the majority of this activity, because they’re quick and free. Yeah anybody could sign up for td amertrade or etrade or whatever but by the time you got up and running it’d be days later and you’d have to pay fees to…

And only being blocked because hedge funds stand to lose billions.

a liiitle bit different because the people in your scenario are misplacing their anger onto black, brown, and queer folk instead of the politicians that lie, cheat, steal and vote in corporations favor. in randy’s case the only people hurting (and really, to them, tis but a flesh wound) are billionaires.

Sounds a little like the sentiments I heard from the very few Trump supporters in my circles. They were so tired of being passive-aggressively fucked by the status quo that some dark part of them was willing to buy in to impossible/incoherent promises (remember when people could buy homes and support a family on a…

Whew, hell of a sentiment. And yeah that’s what feels so fake about all this, it’s so arbitrary and feels like RNG when it’s really a bunch of douches in suits pulling the levers and holding out empty pockets when we, normal non-rich folk, need help. (Meaningful stimulus checks anyone.)

I’m right here with you!

I feel so cynical and nihilistic watching the wealthy class clutch their pearls at another class creating market volatility. I graduated in 2011, in the middle of a “once in a lifetime” global recession that caused my industry to shrink by 30-40%, caused by the wealthy class pulling the levers of the world economy…

Congress better get in on this STAT. Come on Biden/Harris. Harris can do for retail investors what she did for homeowners wrongfully foreclosed on. This is the financial elite flexing on the swelling masses. Plain and simple.