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Why can’t we make sure that every kid has breakfast and a nutritious free school lunch?

Power ball and Mega Million tickets just went from $2 - $5 each... so that's out of reach now for the majority of people who bought lottery tickets... I'm not sure if it's a Trump administration official making bad math decisions, but they are going to lose a lot of money with that moronic change!

i'm so glad i unsubscribed from you

Shut the fuck up

Gambling on digital toys. This is late stage capitalism. For those paying close attention, the American oligarchs dream of an end to Democracy, and a return to feudalism- where billionaires are kings and rule over everyone. Peter Thiel has long dreamed of this.

And my grandfather once told me that the EASIEST way to double your money was to fold it in half and put it in your pocket!! Seems like sound advice considering this meme coin bullshit!

call them what they are: fools and rubes!

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Meme coins are no better investments than beanie babies were but they pretend to be a serious financial instrument. The difference is the people (like the Trumps) making billions off of the fraud.

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Delete your account

What in the fucking hell is this trash article?

ponzi scam.

Your chances are better with lotto.

Jack, who felt excluded from traditional paths to economic independence, decided to buy these magic beans…

man, shut the fuck up

Get rich quick scams as the American Dream? LOL! The American Dream is only meaningful if your gains come from adding value to society in a prosocial manner. And that is still possible for everyone.

Isn’t this just an MLM? They’ve been around for ages.

This is embarrassing and irresponsible framing of pump and dump scams

Well, they're just falling for the new ponzy scheme.

Yeah, but at what cost??? www.wired.com/story/trumps...

you're just doing the equivalent of jingling keys in peoples faces

The American dream,a frase coined by industrialists to get people work more for less.The same people banning workers union etc.

Betting that what seems like a scam, what most people who know says is a scam, isn't a scam. Because why not. WaPo promoting nihilism as a reasonable life strategy.

what the actual fuck is wrong with you?

In France, candidates in the legislative elections are advocating a post-monetary economy, because in their eyes the use of money is a dead end for humanity and leads to self-destruction. www.notre-futur.fr/elections_le...

Disaster

Ok actually it's good that these dorks don't know how to talk to girls

JFC!🤦🏻‍♀️

Reverse engineer “Meme” coins - the people that market the coin get rich, everybody else is left holding an empty bag. It has all the attributes and results of a Ponzi scheme.

Did a meme coin write this

what, is Bezos planning to do one soon?

Earned an unfollow there.

Yeah, when the meme coins dropped to zero I've got a few tulip bulbs to sell you.

What a crock of shit. There has never been one generation in the US without millions of people "excluded from traditional paths to economic independence".

How much money does Bezos have in crypto for this to be the way you're framing it...

I occasionally buy a lottery ticket. I do not occasionally buy 10,000 lottery tickets.

There are always get-rich-quick scams. There are always people willing to be conned. Media plays carnival barker for the scammers. Step right up, fools, and be part from your money.

Which crypto bro wrote this for you?

JFC this is a terrible headline.

Remember NFTs?

😂😂😂

IT IS A SCAM.

??? These same people do realize that the Orange Twatmuffin is canceling the American dream, right?

I had a sister-in-law who was buying “Beanie Babies “ to pay for college for her kids….

Contender for the dumbest headline of the day

Ah yes getting scammed, a new path to economic independence

You're all fucking idiots overe there, jesus fucking christ

It’s gambling

Wapo selling meme dreams, cuz jernilizzmm 🖕🏼 #TheFarceEstate

Wonderful country this one amarite

It was an obvious scam from the jump and they all ran around crowing about how stupid the rest of us were for not falling for it. Fuck em.

“Beanie Babies: The New Dollar?”

Yeah, and people buy lottery tickets too.

Shut up.

for a generation that can feel excluded from traditional paths to economic independence, maybe I really will guess which shell the ball is under next time.

Yeah, if you’re an idiot

Or I could just buy a lottery ticket.

Idiots. Never give someone else your money to invest. Invest in real estate and you'll never go wrong. It made me a multi-millionaire because no one can f*** with my money because I always have control. That's why I don't buy stocks either. Real estate is it because it will always increase in value.

here before the ratio

Why are you promoting obvious scams

There may be a non-zero chance that if I pick up every rock I see while walking the dog, someone might someday buy those rocks from me for a million dollars. Except with meme coins, you buy the rocks instead of getting them for free. Get better at thinking, WaPo.

Absolutely. With the cost of everything and these entitled virgins getting free 1600 phones and 2000 PC rigs w/o working a day in their life, get rich quick schemes are very appealling

You get that’s an indictment of “the American Dream”, right?

Some day the actual defense used by the meme coin fraud trial defendants will be, “We sold a souvenir coin with a dog (or president of fill in the blank) on it, who the f thought that was real $?!”

Dumb. So dumb. It’s the American Idol shortcut gone even more stupid. After 23 seasons of American Idol, how many are still performing and doing well? 2?

You employ Michelle Singletary. She does great work. Why on earth are you undermining her columns with this “oh but you have to hand it to the con artists’ appeal to base emotions” hot nonsense?

Are y'all serious with this BS?

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social did you get a job writing for WaPo?

Pure madness. They are taught to try Literally anything except organizing as a class to get back the wealth stolen from them by their wealthy masters.

Scam. It's a scam. Is there anything Trump does you're not willing to make excuses for?

Tremendous work here

Is winning the lottery a path to the American dream, too?

Is this a parody? It's a pyramid scheme;

Just go bet on horses racing

Many felt the same way about beanie babies

Meta enthusiasts acknowledge the silliness & risk of sponsored ads. But for a generation that can feel excluded from traditional paths to economic independence, betting on a “Trump to release a $150 trillion trust fund to the public this month” ad seems like a reasonable shot at the American Dream.

A shame it is. Civics must be taught in elementary school.

Hey with Trump (Sir Shitshispants) tanking our economy gambling seems more reasonable. Just his grifter coins

so like the lotto, then

hey, just ask how buying Beanie Babies worked out in the end.

I own rental houses and encourage every renter to not worry about having new or the best and think future oriented. Don't fall for lots of cheap crap and keep your eye on a future that you can be proud of working towards. You don't have to be rich to be secure. So happy when they buy a house!

The media is the enemy of the people

Meme coins are a stupid lie, but so is the American Dream. Where you messed up is you forgot that only one of these things can be made to seem real if you do indigenous genocide and then get very lucky in two world wars.

What American Dream? We’re watching that dream turn into a nightmare day by day.

Just get an accounting degree.

These are just rug-pull scams. They're scamming.

Well, that's dumb, and they're going to lose everything.

Call it what it is: Gambling with shitcoins.

The people doing the rug pulls, the "whales" and market manipulators/makers

Possible and that has happened some times unfortunately, but that is not a general problem with (meme)coons since there are well established ones.

The US is now a nation of grifters.

This is *gambling*. Just come out and say it. It's *gambling*. There's nothing behind these meme coins. It's musical chairs with someone left holding the bag.

Sickeningly ironic coming from the paper owned by one of the richest parasites in the world

That you would equate meme coins with a “path to economic independence” is a fucking 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 that you and/or your owners are in on the grift.

Translation: meritocracy is a lie and the American dream is dead, so why not just gamble instead

Just a new lottery.

lol

Ponzi scheme enthusiasts acknowledge the silliness and risks of Ponzi schemes. But for a generation that can feel excluded from traditional paths to economic acceptance, betting on a Ponzi scheme payday can seem like a reasonable shot at the American Dream.

I'm embarrassed for WaPo. Jesus H. Christ, this is some dogshit.

“ late stage capitalism means everything is a casino.” Fixed it for you

Ok, but it's not

Better to get an honest job, like drug dealer.

Pre-October 1929 style speculation.

oh fuck off

No fucking shot WAPO is carrying water for these bullshit scams.

I mean let's call a spade a spade, it's simply gambling

The traditional route to wealth still remains. Inherit from your parents. No it was never meant to be available to the masses.

It’s a scam, you morons.

Nope, it's just stupid.

Shut up Bezos

Can you tell them buying lottery tickets is more environmentally friendly and less dependent on cheating someone else to get your payout?

you forgot "but it isn't"

Replacing "Meme coin" with any other form of gambling reveals just how bad this take is.

It’s just a way to turn a buttload of people into crooks, grifters and thieves.

Honestly what is wrong with all of you? You make this sound viable and it is not. Stop dragging people around with “balanced” bullshit and start reporting honestly about how rare paydays are and that this is a stupid financial strategy.

"I know my other get rich quick schemes have failed, but this scheme is gonna make us rich- quick!"