Gamestore’s trading cards apparently have holographic elons in them. My buddy pulled a rarer/numbered version(?) of a holographic Elon, another person has it currently for sale $5k on eBay. $5k for holographic Elon game store trading cards lmao —- great fucking work Jerome.

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Honestly... I think your university rankings are a bit... shall we say inflated? Not that it isn't also the case for certain US universities (e.g. I'm not sold on Harvard being all they're talked up as either). Juggernaut companies aren't just a matter of a strong education pipeline though... I suspect it has more to do with the regulatory environment. The US is far more tolerant of monopolies than they really should be (compare how the US and the EU treated Microsoft's browser shenanigans, the UK was in the EU at the time). They also let them get away with more legal damage for much longer... to the point where it runs away from them and they couldn't put the cat back in the bag even if they wanted to. Often by exploiting seemingly grey areas like Uber does with whether someone is a contractor or an employee. This is something that I was seeing rulings on in the UK maybe even a decade earlier and those rulings were generally coming down on the side of them being employees. And as far as I can tell from a quick search, that was upheld when it came to Uber as well: "**Uber now treats all 70,000 of its drivers in Britain as “workers”** entitled to a minimum wage, holiday pay and pension plans. It comes weeks after the country's Supreme Court upheld a ruling that its drivers were workers, not independent contractors.Mar 18, 2021" --quoted from my Google search results, Google implies it comes from this article: [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/18/uber-is-reclassifying-uk-drivers-as-workers-heres-what-happens-next.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/18/uber-is-reclassifying-uk-drivers-as-workers-heres-what-happens-next.html) It's probably for the best that the UK doesn't produce mega companies (at least in the interest of the average UK citizen). In the US, people still suffer heavily even from monopolies that were supposedly broken up at the time. Even after Bell System was smashed in 1984, the separated companies operated regionally, effectively leaving local monopolies. And to this day the US appears to be fairly unique in the cooperation between device manufacturers and retailers with phone companies to lock customers into long term phone contracts at purchase with strange financing options. E.g. you cannot buy an iPhone at Best Buy without signing a cell phone contract. You have to go direct to the Apple store to get one without contract in the US (or slightly shady methods, unlocked imports on Amazon, eBay phones that who knows..., etc.). This level of anti-competitive operation is mostly not legal in the UK and EU. Likewise, when these companies go overseas, they often have US government support even when they operate in ways that aren't normally locally legal. Less egregiously (maybe?) these days, but the term Banana Republic refers to governments beholden to US firms operating in South America (Honduras, Costa Rica,...). Of course British companies were able to operate that way back in the days of the British Empire, but these days the UK has less political and economic weight to throw around in that respect. The British and Dutch East India companies started as local monopolies and again, benefited from the projection of power globally. Mega companies require political buy in to have favorable policies and procedures through regulatory capture. More robust political involvement and stronger regulatory authority and independence would be expected to put a damper on such massive enterprises.

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I had a VR headset for a while but got sick of it pretty quick. I sold it on eBay and I don't miss it. I bet both companies lose money on this

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My theory is Tim Apple will actually sell them for 1500 on eBay out the gate. That is the real price point but some nimrods will buy for 3.5k anyways so why not.

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$3,500 is too much money for an Apple Vision Pro....I'll wait till they are around at $1,500 on eBay.

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Fvck you Apple and your ghey ass products!!!🤬🤬🤬 You have to be insane if you think Im spending $1k on your phone or $3,499 for your bagguete Vision Pro when I could just buy a $125 android phone of Ebay!!! 😈😈😈😈😈

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More importantly they won't return it to Apple. Yard sale? Ebay?

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i love to solder stuff. back in high school i used to do a refurb gig on ebay where i would rebuild stuff and send it back

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1) Gonna quickly run to the Dick's Sporting Goods store and buy some ski ⛷ goggles 2) Then order some Apple 🍏 stickers from Etsy 3) Put these stickers on the ski goggles 4) Call it Apple Vision Pro augmented reality headset and sell it on eBay Be right back

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I don’t keep any money in PayPal , I just use them as a pass through… I used to have a business and I got their business debit card and it has cash back , I tied it to my main back account and I get cash back on debit transactions so it replaced my banks own debit card for paying. Other than eBay stuff , I see no reason to lean into PayPal.

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