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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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    The one thing OP is missing is the type of shrimp. Don’t bother with food shrimp. That’s unprofitable! The real money is in fancy aquarium shrimp like these:

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    I bought all the equipment right from a Chinese seller for Tether

    Had me right up until the end. Cryptobros literally do not understand how to do normal banking.

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        Unironically why small business goons love voting Republican.

        You can brew mutant shrimp in a vat in your garage and take them to a wholesaler in a leaky bag labeled “Wild Caught Magic Beans” then sell them at some absurd markup. When half your customer base gets food poisoning, you blame DEI, throw down a smoke bomb, and run off with your profits.

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    And then you realize far too late that stuff like this is strictly regulated and you forgot to comply with all the standards for product safety and hygiene and the state is going to rip your ass so far open that a truck can make a u-turn it it.

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      not anymore, how long until all that is doged out and we’re back to the jungle

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        That’s expensive. My governor is an alfalfa farmer in a desert state where alfalfa is ~1% of GDP and >50% of water use, or something like that. He’s already a grifter, so getting my own grift approved is going to be expensive.

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            Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One” teaches that the best business is an iron-fisted monopoly.

            Far from cutting you in, the governor is more likely to break your kneecaps and burn down your nascent storefront.

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              Peter Thiel may have been successful in business but he’s no economist. For a government official like the governor, there’s way more wealth to be gained by encouraging competition than suppressing it.

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                there’s way more wealth to be gained by encouraging competition

                But governors aren’t in it for simple numerical wealth. They’re in it for power.

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    In America, just buy a load of chickens and do this with eggs.

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    I tried the same thing with veal farming but little baby cows can’t swim so good :|

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    I know a guy who bought a plot of almost worthless land an hour out of town fenced jt and bought a bunch of goats. We all thought he was insane.

    10 years later he is retired at 40 because it turns out that certain communities will pay very good money for organic free range goat.

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      If you’ve got the time and the energy and the stomach to handle birthing and raising live goats, it is very profitable… for the person who got a large low-interest loan to set up the farm. Significantly less so for the people doing the actual agricultural labor.

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      There’s multiple avenues how you can increase your wealth, if you have investment capital, and nothing goes wrong.

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          Yeah, I also know a goat farmer in my neighborhood.
          In the same 10 years, she faced an expensive lawsuit from someone who wanted her land, an epidemic that destroyed her herd, animals dying from people feeding them the wrong plants through the fence, Covid forcing her to close the farm to visitors, and other hardships.

          She’s barely out of the woods now, but definitely much worse off than if she had invested the money into stocks.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            Yup, stocks are almost zero effort and have an expected return of 10-12% long term. Everything else is a job and is dependent on how good you are at managing it.

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    Shrimp > blockchain. Can’t disagree with him there.

    For that matter, shit is better than blockchain. Because at least shit is good for manure.

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      Anon also doesn’t know about all applicable regulations and is yet to be audited by the IRS.
      Anon discovered that you can earn money illegally until you’re caught.

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        No? He’s acquiring capital (land, shrimp farm equipment, shromps) and using his labor to create something (more shromps) and selling his product for a profit.

        He owns the property, takes the investment risk, and keeps the profits. In theory he’s competing in a market with other shrimp sellers but like I said from the sound of it the market is pretty thin so he gets to sell for a huge profit.