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mdbl

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6. Gee no one could have predicted this

Reply to FakeNoose (Original post)

Sun Jun 28, 2026, 01:34 PM

Sunday

I Iearned long ago that the only people to make money in these things are the greedy pigs that already owned most of the stock at the outset of the IPO. It all reminds me of those lists that people used to spread that had a bunch of names at the top. You were supposed to send money to the top guy, put your name on the bottom of the list and then sell the lists to others hoping someday your name will make it to the top and you'll get all kinds of money. Of course, the bottom feeders never get anything.