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Re:The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022) by reducesuffering on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:05PM (#39802726)
John isn't a bad guy, and if he was close to achieving good things, I would be all for supporting him.

Unfortunately, he is living off a 6 figure sum he got from stock years ago. He is rapidly burning it to 0 by buying unprofitable real estate. Instead of proving out ideas on a small scale, and scaling up from there, he thinks if he just tries for a home run, he can eventually do it. But he has multiple kids that he isn't seeing when he's in Pine Bluff most of the time. It's obvious that he's burning through his savings and will go bankrupt if he doesn't change course sooner. The nuclear reactor or mayor of Pine Bluff moonshots are never going to pan out.

Re:The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022) by dinobones on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:29PM (#39802880)
Part of me wonders if this is a high-risk high-reward play to avoid paying his ex-wife a divorce settlement.

If he loses all his money, oh well, sorry ex-wife I've got nothing.

If he wins big, he makes a ton of money, but paying out the settlement will proportionally feel like nothing.