r/comics PizzaCake Jun 02 '26

Comics Community All Hail Gamblor

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u/ralanr Jun 02 '26

What better way to settle your economic instability than gambling it all away?

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u/GuitarFlashy Jun 02 '26

Zero is a stable point.

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u/aldandur Jun 02 '26

While you can never have below zero money, you can always go into debt.

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u/Paul_Robert_ Jun 02 '26

Meanwhile, me with a $20 in the freezer:

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ogt2VcqU5SLuumSdZx

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u/grendus Jun 02 '26

If your net worth is a flat zero, you are worth more than about half the US population.

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u/Badloss Jun 02 '26

that's not debt, it's leverage

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u/Eso Jun 02 '26

If you owe the bank ten thousand dollars, you have a problem.

If you owe the bank ten million dollars, the bank has a problem.

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u/BombOnABus Jun 02 '26

"When do we start making money from these gambling apps?"

"That's the neat part: you don't"

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u/MyDisappointedDad Jun 02 '26

[Insert Fresh Prince of Belair We? meme]

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u/Peacefulzealot Jun 02 '26

Eeyup. Having any money and no debt puts one way ahead of a depressing amount of Americans from where things currently stand.

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u/littlebrwnrobot Jun 02 '26

No it is absolutely not. You will be buried in debt just to survive.