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What historical event(s) would you have liked to live through that happened before you were born? (lemmy.world)

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Stock market crash of 1929.

Buy a bunch of puts in summer. Cash out in October. Use the cash to buy up stocks. Be filthy rich.

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[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Gonna party like it’s 1929 any day now… unless crimes continue, in which case then continuing to be poor is the system working as intended.

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