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Bit of a tangential rant ahead... > Shhhhh shhhh. It’s ok. Sure, some domains were. And the buyers aren’t scumbags. If someone buys real estate dirt and won’t
by DangitBobby 6y ago
Bit of a tangential rant ahead...
> Shhhhh shhhh. It’s ok. Sure, some domains were. And the buyers aren’t scumbags. If someone buys real estate dirt and won’t sell to you for pennies 10 years later, do you suck thumb and whine? Nah. Same deal here. While you were binge watching Walker, Texas Ranger in 1995, these folks were spending hours faxing through domain name orders & risking their own cash on a new thing called the Internet. They’re just investors, and smart ones at that.
Every asshole has a way to rationalize his or her behavior. Scalpers, thieves, scammers, et. al. justify their toxic behavior exactly the same way. Being a saavy business person doesn't make you not a piece of shit. I see real estate and come to the exact opposite conclusion of what's written above. It is shitty that you get to bleed money from me just because you showed up 50 years earlier with $30k before I was even born. How the fuck is that business accumen? It's profiting off of your position against people who never had the same opportunity. I would call it predatory.
- havetocharge 6y agoIsn't the same true of Bitcoin or much of everything else?
- DangitBobby 6y agoI guess it applies to almost anything where arriving first gives you a significant advantage over those arriving later, and you use that advantage to extract value from those who have little or no choice but to follow you.