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they changed it... google do your thing and make the image great again ❗❗

me when im an alleged murderer and the first pic that comes up is me shirtless and ripped on a beach

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"Why the hell is everyone obsessed with an alleged murderer?"

It's american anticare.

In retrospect, the way insurance companies make hella cash is perfect — you get people to pay for coverage in case they need it, and then once they actually do, you don’t cover them.

That makes the most profitable insurance company the one that denies the most claims — ⅓ of them — UnitedHealthcare (and the crowd BOOED).

If he were alive now, Brian Thompson (its CEO, if you didn't know) would’ve received the last bit of his $10.2 million annual pay package. WTF?!?!?!

And this didn’t sit right with people. It still doesn’t. Why is it that we allow a multimillion-dollar CEO, who has the money to be perfectly healthy and more, to build his wealth off of the denial of people’s care?

It’s the exact sentiment that’s resounding in people’s heads, the resolve of “this isn’t fair.” BECAUSE IT ISN'T.

So here comes this guy, a young, ordinary, man — someone much more like you and me — who is accused of murdering Thompson. And we go crazy over him.

I think the media overplays how much his appearance contributed to the Luigi craze. Even before his identity was revealed, people came together in support of him, the guy who had the balls to shoot down someone who represented a corrupt industry.

That’s the part that matters. No, NY Post, it’s not that people think he’s hot. The fact that his alleged action isn’t just about shooting down a person, it’s about this crazy pushback that is against everyone propagating this corrupt "healthcare" system. The only people surprised about the hate of a multimillion-dollar CEO, are the multimillion-dollar CEO’s.

When we hear that claims are denied, we’re hearing that people are dying. DUH!!! Oh wait-- in the eyes of these healthcare executives, denying claims = HELLA $$$.

The status quo is messy, it’s horrible, and it has us in a chokehold. So people are seeing Luigi’s alleged act as more of resistance instead of murder because of the hope that something will change.

I saw this really great comment under an article about the situation.

“Every time I hear about him being a husband and a father, I just wonder. Why is that suddenly a concern when the husband and father is a millionaire? Why not all the husbands and fathers who suffered at the hands of people like Thompson after getting their claims denied by the insurance industry?”

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List of NPOs that help pay off ur healthcare because the damn insurers cant do their job + commentary 

Since healthcare insurance (COUGH COUGH UNITED HEALTH?!??!) can’t take some money out of their billions of profits to help Americans, here are 5 organizations that do it instead:

1. CancerCare

Profit comes from the most denials — GOD is that horrible. They live in a money-tinted world where they don’t have to see the struggles of ordinary people.

2. HealthWell Foundation

“When health insurance is not enough.” DAMN do I love that slogan. It is and has been true for so many years and finally, we’re talking about it. Of course violence bad blah blah blah, but its good to have an event that’ll unite all of us. Except for the ultra rich.

3. Patient Advocate Foundation

Sometimes I wonder how the government can pour billions into the military, waste away at some bill that’ll never actually help, and ignore some of the most devastating problems in the United States. In a system lobbied and dictated by corporations rather than ordinary people, its questionable whether we live in a democracy— anybody we vote for is subject to the control of the top of the 1%.

4. PAN Foundation

And with Luigi Mangione. They’re trying to use him to threaten us so bad. Did any of you see that perp walk? Looked like something out of a renaissance painting.

5. NeedyMeds

…That concludes the list. Hope that these npos won’t have to take on someone else's job in the near future as we KEEP ON TALKING ABOUT IT!!

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what divides us more than political views is social class.. they dont want us to realize THAT...

For so long, the US has been a battle of left vs right. But CEO Brian Thompson's assassination has kinda done something incredible..... The conversation has shifted from being "left vs right" to "rich vs poor." The cracks have begun to show, and maybe, just maybe, the conversation will continue...

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fox news knew what they were doing when they put on THAT edit. cmon we kno u love him

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its criminal itself to put luigi mangione in the same jail as DIDDY

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Stock investing for people who despise finance

Hate finance but wanna earn easy $$$ over your life? I GOTCHU❗

1. WHERE tf do i invest!?

If you want to dump your extra money and never look at it again (while it GROWS), you can’t go wrong with Vanguard or Fidelity. Both are available on every device you can think of, and it’s easy to use. That’s literally it.

AND IF YOU’RE A MINOR GOOD NEWS!!!

Fidelity literally has an app just for teens. It costs NOTHING to open, all your earnings are untaxed, absolutely NO fees at all nor minimum balance to start. Your parent just opens an account for you, download the app, and bazinga ❗❗

FYI, in most accounts designed for teens, the parent makes all the investment decisions. BUT THIS ISN’T THE CASE!!! You get to make your own decisions with Fidelity (this sounds like an ad, I'm so sorry.)

2. WHAT do i invest in!?

For the ones who don’t want to do ANY research on stocks/finance/any of those weird erpy terms, you got your holy grail: S&P 500 mutual funds.

Breaking this down— S&P 500 = the largest U.S. companies based on something called market cap. Apple, Microsoft, and all your household names are in this fund. AND btw, the average return is around 11%. Which means if you invested $100 right now, and contributed $20 a month for 40 years, you’d get ~$150k. That’s an awfully good deal.

Investing in a mutual fund means that you’re investing in many, many stocks all at once. In one purchase. AND IT’S MANAGED BY SOME INVESTMENT BANK IN NEW YORK THAT IS RESEARCHING SHIT FOR YOU!!!

There are MANY s&p 500 mutual funds. You’ve got the Vanguard 500 Index Fund, Fidelity® 500 Index Fund, (and more) which are basically the same thing. 

EXCEPT…

The expense ratio. It’s what you pay each year, for every dollar you earn, like a little ‘thank you.’ Thankfully, what you pay is basically NOTHING.

Fidelity® 500 Index Fund

Expense Ratio: 0.015%

You pay $1.50 per year for every $10,000 invested.

Vanguard 500 Index Fund

Expense Ratio: 0.04%

You pay $4.00 per year for every $10,000 invested.

I know that everyone on here is somewhat broke but we can afford this.

3. SO NOW what do I do!?!?

OK, so your money is working for you. But you'll need to at least hype it up a lil. And that’s where contributions come in. Monthly, annually, whatever it is, this is what makes your money really grow. 

The earlier, the better, because what makes you $$$ is time. And during that time, you’d better invest as much as you can.

Start with whatever amount you want to invest in. Now, just find extra cash to put aside each month, whether that be $20, $10, or $5— ANYTHING is best.

REMEMBER— this is for the LONG TERM, so you’re gonna get the best returns when you eventually open your account, after doing absolutely nothing but investing more each month, seeing hundreds of thousands when you’re 60 years old and want to retire early.

So open that account, set aside some cash, and eat the rich by GETTING RICH!!! (slowly.)

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something i might write an essay on later is how frustrating it is to see economists define poverty as Access to Spices and Clothing and GDP instead of. like. desparation. constant scrabbling. because it turned out that limitless access to fabric stopped improving my life around my 3rd pair of jeans and my 8th t-shirt. clothes done. but i would love some more space. some room to plant a garden. id love time.

fundamentally, poverty isn’t measured in presence it’s measured in absence. poverty is whatever we lack the most and what we’re willing to do to get it. there is something unspeakably cruel about telling someone dying of thirst that they must be fine because they have five hundred loaves of bread. they aren’t fine. their life is still controlled by the one stupid thing they lack and no excess in other areas can change that. they will die of thirst on a beanbag filled with wonderbread. and then an economist will tell them how lucky they were, to die in such comfort.

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school shootings last year. doubt we know any of those kids names, because obviously, we should feel more sympathy for healthcare ceos 😒😒😒

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throwback to when my science class was talking about down syndrome and a kid asked if UP syndrome existed... okay jake....

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this mf is never gonna be looked at the same way again

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even after a year this is so funny because she preaches being all 'christ-like' and 'holy' while FONDLING HER DATE'S BALLS. IN A THEATER. WITH CHILDREN...

lauren boebert btw

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"Why the hell is everyone obsessed with an alleged murderer?"

It's american anticare.

In retrospect, the way insurance companies make hella cash is perfect — you get people to pay for coverage in case they need it, and then once they actually do, you don’t cover them.

That makes the most profitable insurance company the one that denies the most claims — ⅓ of them — UnitedHealthcare (and the crowd BOOED).

If he were alive now, Brian Thompson (its CEO, if you didn't know) would’ve received the last bit of his $10.2 million annual pay package. WTF?!?!?!

And this didn’t sit right with people. It still doesn’t. Why is it that we allow a multimillion-dollar CEO, who has the money to be perfectly healthy and more, to build his wealth off of the denial of people’s care?

It’s the exact sentiment that’s resounding in people’s heads, the resolve of “this isn’t fair.” BECAUSE IT ISN'T.

So here comes this guy, a young, ordinary, man — someone much more like you and me — who is accused of murdering Thompson. And we go crazy over him.

I think the media overplays how much his appearance contributed to the Luigi craze. Even before his identity was revealed, people came together in support of him, the guy who had the balls to shoot down someone who represented a corrupt industry.

That’s the part that matters. No, NY Post, it’s not that people think he’s hot. The fact that his alleged action isn’t just about shooting down a person, it’s about this crazy pushback that is against everyone propagating this corrupt "healthcare" system. The only people surprised about the hate of a multimillion-dollar CEO, are the multimillion-dollar CEO’s.

When we hear that claims are denied, we’re hearing that people are dying. DUH!!! Oh wait-- in the eyes of these healthcare executives, denying claims = HELLA $$$.

The status quo is messy, it’s horrible, and it has us in a chokehold. So people are seeing Luigi’s alleged act as more of resistance instead of murder because of the hope that something will change.

I saw this really great comment under an article about the situation.

“Every time I hear about him being a husband and a father, I just wonder. Why is that suddenly a concern when the husband and father is a millionaire? Why not all the husbands and fathers who suffered at the hands of people like Thompson after getting their claims denied by the insurance industry?”

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me when im an alleged murderer and the first pic that comes up is me shirtless and ripped on a beach

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i am not meant to be learning about centripetal force i am meant to be living out my sparkly girl dream magic life

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#findingtheeconkids

WHERE ARE ALL THE TUMBLR ECON PEOPLE??? WHERE ARE YALL???

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Feminomics icons #1: millicent fawcett 

Guys. I love economics. And I love women. Platonically. So I'm making it a goal to write about FEMINOMICS ICONS EACH WEEK!!!

Kicking off with the epitome of 19th-century abnormality— even before her birth— Millicent Fawcett.

She had a family that urged their daughters “to be physically active, read widely, speak their minds, and share in the political interests of their father.”

In a time when women weren’t allowed to wear pants, being encouraged to (gasp) form their own ideas and (double gasp) being encouraged by their family! Including their father! Was exceptional. 

So you have a daughter whose mind is challenged. A woman who is taught to have strong opinions in a time when women's opinions weren’t heard. And don’t forget a bit of dad's politics. 

You get a suffragist and… ECONOMIST!!!.

Beginning her political career at 22, Fawcett was nothing short of a girlboss. She shortly led Britain’s main suffragist organization, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, where she expanded and pioneered a multitude of campaigns supporting women and children. Damn.

Particularly, an issue close to heart was women’s education, resulting in the founding of the Newnham College for Women in Cambridge, backing a bill to have all women receiving Cambridge degrees. 

But of course, that wasn’t enough. She then published Political Economy for Beginners, which, within 41 years, ran through 10 editions. 

And if anyone has doubts, she knows her econ 101. When ideas of trade protectionism (If you read my last post, you know why it’s bad) swept over Unionists, she resigned, supporting free trade instead.  Go girl, you know your comparative advantage!!