I have no doubt he would have spent/lost the money on other things regardless.
Juicy quote:
"As of today, over the past 7 months I have lost a total of $410,000. The inheritance was supposed to be split between my younger sister and I, giving us each $375,00 + half of the house (not worth much, rural area, etc)."
So if he just held for 4 more years... he would have turned their investment of 500k (even with 200k losses down from 700k) around to about 5 million dollars today.
This is what happens when you do not have patience and speculate on things you do not understand.
>I completed my studies at New York University, where I received a BA and an MA in English literature, with more than $100,000 of debt, for which my father was a guarantor
So not only is the child financially and economically illiterate... the father is too.
These people will have found one way or another to make themselves into debt slaves. Cars, vacations, too big houses... you name it.
Think about it:
Why would you spend 100k for the opportunity to have no job prospects? It only takes a few minutes to look at the forecast.
Bizarre.
Now their English degree is being used for virtual pan handling and garnering sympathy.
What about my sympathy for not having parents to guarantee my loans. What about the loans I took out for a car and got a lemon and then the car seller disappeared?
No, because that is not a sexy topic and won't allow anyone else to share in the 5 minutes of "hate".
The same invasive searches that men have been going through for decades.
When will people realize that the real identity politics is not between genders or skin color.... but between the "elected rulers and their thugs" and "the rest of us".
>Consider that the Union of Poland-Lithuania elected Muslims to the Seym (the Parliament) during the 1500s. But when religious intolerance finally won in Poland, in the 1600s, the Muslims were pushed from power, and no other Western nation was to elect a Muslim till the mid 1900s.
So the battles that the invading Muslims instigated was "tolerance"... but pushing back on them was "intolerance".
A Choice is a favorable opinion that one has on some matter...in other words a decision is one's perspective and actions.
I will never say or admit it was necessity, because of my Pride. No one forced me to make the decisions that I took that led me to that point in my life where making the choice to live in a container for a few months.
How would someone reporting on shanty towns be able to cover the breadth and depth of an entire field of economics in a way that is not merely biased propaganda?
>Bitcoin charges something like $4 per transaction lately, and they take on the order of a day to process. It's unstable, and it's confusing to most people.
"Bitcoin" is a protocol, like TCP or HTTP. It does not charge anything.
You may as well have said "SMTP charges monthly access fees".
The miner's accept transactions and prefer ones with the higher fee. User chooses their fee in accordance with how fast they want some miner to pick it up.
Note that this clogged, congested network is due to Bitcoin Core (BTC) being crippled at 1MB block size ... this is not inherent to the _bitcoin protocol_ itself.
This can be seen with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) where the block size is 32MB (and will be soon 128MB) where the median fee is less than 0.005 USD (half a cent) for pretty much guaranteed confirmation within the next block (10 minutes or so).
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is the only "crypto" that now actually implements p2p electronic cash system ... as a chain of digital signatures as described in Nakamoto's original paper and original implementation.