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this is literally the plot of Forrest Gump (the book)
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This is actually true. A former landlord of mine made a fuck ton of money by farming koi fish in the basement of a warehouse.
Basement Gump
This shrimp fresh?
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:
I have never wanted an aquarium shrimp before, but I think you just found yourself a customer sir!
Anon gets shut down by the department of agriculture
Didn't Trump axe that one too?
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.
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.
not anymore, how long until all that is doged out and we’re back to the jungle
Weeks. Months at most.
took days for the faa to get fucked
Just do it in a red state and buy favor with the governor.
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.
Just gotta cut him in on a share of the profits. He’ll be your best friend in that case!
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.
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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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.
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.
There's multiple avenues how you can increase your wealth, if you have investment capital, and nothing goes wrong.
Two very big ifs, sadly.
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.
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.
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.
I tried the same thing with veal farming but little baby cows can't swim so good :|
Give em a few generations, they'll learn.
Now I am just imagining someone breeding cows to get some kind of aquatic cow species. Which would also make a great band name.
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In America, just buy a load of chickens and do this with eggs.
Silly goose, everyone knows shrimp is much more valuable than eg--
Heavens to betsy, you're right
I've looked into it, unless there's a bird flu epidemic, you're not going to be profitable. It's literally more expensive for me to raise chickens than buy eggs from across the company.
So I guess the solution is to spread bird flu?
Be a true American and send the other farms infected chicken blankets.
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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.
Blockchain is the perfect solution to none of life's problems
Buying drugs on the dark web
Okay, you got me there. I'll admit that's a pretty good use for cryptocurrencies
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Anon discovers basic capitalism and lucked into an underserved market.
And making the mistake of telling everyone. If everyone gets into it, it will stop being profitable. Though everyone will have cheap shrimp, so it's not a complete loss.
I wonder how much it costs to maintain the farm and if it's worthwhile for small scale production for personal and friends/family.
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.
You can also earn money after you're caught, but the protection money will eat most of your profits.
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