That wealth “materializes” when his company gets a new loan based on the paper value of his assets as collateral, even if he hasn’t materially realized that value yet. If you can get rewarded with new loans and government contracts based on paper valuations, you can pay taxes based on paper valuations.

The answer is money and eliminating competition for money

Or parodies like Scary Movie

Alternate ending:

Finally find the paragraph with information alluded to in the headline, at the bottom of the page

Page finally loads the remaining 3 dozen ads (1 for each line break), pushing the sentence you needed completely into the abyss

Sigh heavily and lose interest in the topic forever

Receive 3 different welcome emails, each with a different unsubscribe journey, that ultimately doesn’t work

You can choose only 2

It’s an awareness thing. Everyone uses it because everyone else uses it, because it’s the main one people know about, because Meta has unlimited money to market it and scale it, which are exorbitantly expensive.

Oh, I thought this was Reddit!

Sir/ma’am, this is a meme subreddit, most people are here to just be silly. And there’s also the fact that not everyone has seen every meme and done the work to debunk it, as apparently you have.

Nobody wants to work anymore smh

Hey get a load of this guy, can’t even expose one lousy US war crime. He’s basically complicit

You’re forgetting one important thing - Bezos needs more money! Line must go up. Always. At any cost.

I was a long time subscriber as well, but canceled right before Christmas 2022. I missed it for about a week and then I realized most things I “needed immediately” from Amazon I could either 1) drive across town to purchase from brick and mortar or 2) actually just wait for it.

The end result has been me buying less things I don’t need, and buying the things I do need from local retailers (and of course big box stores), or ordering them from other online retailers since the shipping is comparable to Amazon.

2 years in and I don’t miss it at all, will never go back. I do want to watch the Fallout series though.