We have our quirks, Mr. Moore, but I assure you the cash is very, very real

Just to bring you up to date on your 2014 prediction...the Disney Corporation, a smallish California outfit (seriously:  DIS market cap of $250 bn pales in comparison to AAPL  at $964 bn, GOOGL  at $899 bn, and FB at $556 bn), has a new movie called Avengers: Endgame, which people around the world paid $1.2 billion to go see on its opening weekend.  This makes it the biggest movie opening of all time.


This is the norm, you fool.  California is the baddest economic motherfucker around.  We have the fifth largest economy...(channels Clarkson) in the world:

California’s economy of $2.7 trillion sits behind the United States, China, Japan and Germany. California’s large economy is attributed to its thriving tech sector and Hollywood, according to the Associated Press. It has 12% of the U.S. population, but has contributed 16% of total job growth between 2012 and 2017. California’s gross domestic product also went up by $127 billion from 2016 to 2017, helping to give it a push to reach the fifth spot.

Don't you get it?  There's no mirage.  WE HAVE ALL THE FUCKING MONEY. And you are a sad man in a suit that doesn't like girls.


Unless your point was that all of life is transitory and intrinsically ungraspable, that there can be no valid conception of enduring wealth because there is no true being, only becoming, and the hours of our lives are as evanescent and fleeting as flowers in spring.  If that's what you meant...well I suppose I agree, and you have my apologies.