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I find it funny you posted this to Uplifting, that's just so... Lemmy.
Kind of inappropriate, technically, but made me laugh none the less.
It's almost as if overpricing is bad for business, eventually.
I'm not sure if i prefer this or catastrophic implosion
He just needs to stop buying that avocado toast and expensive coffee in the morning.
Man, I too could rough it with 225 million, maybe... someone should give that to me, to see if I can make ends meet! I'd like to try that experiment.
What a coincidence. I too am a temporarily embarrassed billionaire! He should come to our meetings where we show you how to find a million dollars just by checking the couch cushions and working 148 concurrent jobs.
I guess the only thing left to do is to go on a submersible dive.
He's fine. All he has to do is pull himself to by his bootstraps, cancel his Netflix account and he'll be back a billionaire in a year.
He's still buying avocado toast. He'll never financially recover.
I prefer my uplifting news without the schadenfreude.
Yeah I am not into uplifting news because somebody had to go down. I like news of socially conscious people doing good to people in need of uplifting.
According to billionaires, he’ll easily return to his former glory by pulling himself up on those massive bootstraps we should all apparently be using.
Fun trivia... Pulling yourself up from your bootstraps is impossible and the phrase came from an 1800s physics textbook that asked why a person can't pull themselves up that way.
It somehow got twisted to mean that it should be possible with hard work.
Fun trivia, sometimes turn of phrases can come about differently, especially when they mean different things. Unless you can tie it together with something better than "somehow got twisted" you really shouldn't claim that's the origin.
I can assure you that I have better things to do in life than sit at a computer making up origins of common phrases
it was meant to be sarcastic
There. That's the explanation rather than "somehow".
And for the odd duck whom fortune smiles upon, they get to proudly say they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps while glossing over the once in a century singleton event that carved their path for them to follow.
“If that shit worked for the Lorax, it’ll work for you!”
World's smallest violin plays quietly
Hahahahahhahaha.
Yeeeeeessss.
a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta
Ah... Another brilliant idea.
Subscription stationary bikes was his golden goose remember. It’s a pretty horrendous notion, but they had brilliant marketing and a pandemic to ride.
(in response to him selling the family home)
"My family took it well," the 53-year-old told the New York Post. "My wife's super supportive. My kids are probably better for it, if we're keeping it real."
Just another demonstration of how the Hedonic Treadmill effect means becoming a billionaire won't meaningfully improve your life compared to the negative impact you inflict upon all of society by taking millions of dollars of worker's and consumer's value from them!
When "keeping it real" goes wrong.
His family's darkest hour is my family's wildest, most impossible dream.
Actually I don't know many people who actually dream of that kind of wealth - just enough stability and security to be able to live modestly from a life of labour and in to retirement.
I firmly believe I could live comfortably for the rest of my life if I had $2-3 million.
I once told my boss that I could quit if I won a million dollars and lived off of 5% interest. He said no you couldn't, think about car payments, house, all expenses, $50k a year wouldn't cover that. Then I reminded him that $50k was more than I was currently making, by kind of a lot. He shut up very quickly lol.
I’m pretty sure house and car are two of the three most expensive expenses a person has. Pay them off immediately and you won’t need much else to survive.
(...) Foley was once worth $1.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, but left the company with a net worth of $225 million.
(...)
The ex-Peloton chief was forced to downsize twice—including selling a $55 million East Hampton waterfront home and uprooting his family.
Though Foley has lost much of his fortune, the ordeal has not extinguished his ambition. Within a year of resigning from the top job at Peloton, he had raised $25 million for his new venture, a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta.
You know, my heart is not exactly bleeding for the guy. Nobody should even have a $55 million residence in the first place, fucking hell. Also, being left with only $225 million is hardly losing all your money, is it?
"No member of my family through to my great grandchildren will need to work a day in their lives; I'm ruined."
Someone should buy him a Peloton for christmas
A used one that he still needs to pay to activate.