Comments by "Maxwell Benz" (@Tential1) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. Job openings doesn't mean people actually HAVE to fill those roles. Companies have job openings for years... The way this data is calculated is borderline demented.
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  2. I love how in the beginning of the video it says that some people are doing their research online. Really, you really find that surprising?
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  3. "we don't make any high end chips" Intel sobs quietly in the corner.
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  4. Got to love how he lives in area that gets flooded and applies for government assistance. You live in a million-dollar home, if you don't like it getting flooded either pay for the renovations or get out, stop asking for a government handout
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  5. One thing I notice is dealerships almost always lie about the trim they sell. I went to buy a Prius and wanted a higher level trim. Every time I saw the car in person, it was a lower level base model trim, despite being listed as a higher end trim. Edit: for some reason people think I didn't know the trim level of the car. I did. I researched all the trims. That's how I knew they were lying. And since I wanted heated seats only available on the higher level trim it was painfully obvious. I'm not sure why people are saying that I should have done my research first, I did, the whole point is that you shouldn't be lying, and I'm not sure why so many people are defending dealers lying about their cars, if we switch this to the medical industry or the financial industry you guys would freak out yet for a car dealership you're willing to accept that the dealer should lie to you? With no consequence? Please, give that level of belief to the financial industry and stop complaining about how big banks and the rich screw you over. No? Then why are you willing to accept it in cars? Why not the same outrage you have when big banks lie and screw the financial system?
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  6. Rofl got to love how they say speculating isn't investing... That's literally exactly what investing is, speculating on the future
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  7. Because, it has to push "The Message"
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  8. She got a masters degree for social work, and is wondering why she has debt.....
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  9. People want to focus on the bad because everyone wants a shot at the throne.
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  10. Climate change is important, not important enough for me to stop flying my private jet. But important enough that you need to give up your car.... Lol...
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  11. Uh.... No one forces you to use affirm. It literally says 5 easy payments. If something like affirm confuses you, you're of no societal use anyway as you have zero critical thinking skills.
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  12. 8:40 this is a gross misrepresentation of Elon pay. Elon took low base pay, and asked shareholders "hey, if I 20x revenue, ebitda, and net income, can I have some stock?" and us shareholders said 20x? Lol... Sure. I mean, I voted yes. So he was "paid" in stock. That's not dollar pay. That's dilution of shareholders. A deal WE SIGNED. and the benefit? He 15xd my investment. He made a deal with shareholders. If you want to be paid only in shares, please, take that risk. He took a gamble and won.
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  13. Amex is definitely not accepted everywhere. Visa is most universally accepted. Literally just had to deal with that actually.
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  14. First it's your girlfriend can take your guns away. Next, it's your gf can force you to get a vasectomy(you already hear women saying this). She can already force you to pay child support at any time by leaving you, instead of default 50/50 custody (you know, equality? The thing they supposedly want). Then it's any woman can force a man to do whatever she wants. Ya, they want all of our rights. Not just guns.
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  15.  @charlesberkeley6429  at the end of the day, she'll be perfectly fine as the asset appreciates. But, we are supposed to feel bad, and bail her out, because she has debt. They treat all debt as bad, and now, we are going to wipe the debt of people who are actually the most educated and affluent....
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  16. Hence why the media is useless. "we thought bitcoin is anonymous," If you don't understand how Bitcoin works right now and you report on it in the media.... This is why people don't trust media. You can't get basic things right. So people throw doubt on everything you do.
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  17. Sounds like we're at the top. When you see stories like this of people getting a home, when rates are this high, after dropping 20k a year in salary things are gonna get worse.
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  18.  @dexterek011  that's the only problem with it to me, it's that mentally I know it's an Audi
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  19. ROFL. why? So you can come back and prove it's bs later? No. Go transition to evs, eat the bugs and ignore that I own stock in all of the transitions I'm telling you to make.
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  20. ​ @specimendaze  This is why you see lots of homes in disrepair when you lower the down payment necessary. People have zero equity in the home, not enough money for repairs, so you see you people just making the payment until the bank repossesses the home.
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  21. People think this is normal living. My neighbors have new iPhones and pay them off. New cars. Me? Old used vehicle. S9+ I bought for $200. Lots of people just don't know how. My chiro wanted a new phone and didn't know what to do, I told him Amazon refurbished, saved him a bundle. If you bought 4 new phones and 4 lines it would come out to 280 about, especially on a more expensive provider. I've got T-mobile and it's 140 for 4 lines for my plan, but with 4 phones it would be 240-280.
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  22. Then you do it and make money. Since it's so easy.
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  23. Ssssshhh, don't be rational. Drink the kool-aid.
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  24. They don't actually need new people, they are mainly hiring approach competitors. Facebook will hire engineers and have them work 4 hours a week just to make sure they aren't working at a competitor. And pay them a million dollars a year to do it. Some companies are only posting job openings just to make it look like they are looking for people. There isn't a shortage otherwise you would be able to ask for a raise because you couldn't be replaced, but yet if you quit they will replace you easily. Thus, no leverage.
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  25. Because car thieves are watching cnbc looking for new ideas in between managing their stock portfolio.
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  26. Scotty is trash outside of old meh cars and completely misses the point of "nicer" cars. Not to mention the guy is extremely comfortable talking about subjects he knows nothing about like Tesla
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  27. ​ @jackcaffrey8493 yup, the reality is, it's a lack of people who want to run the business. Everyone wants the money from being an owner. No one wants to run the business. These same people crying about employers not paying enough, would do the exact same thing in the employer position.
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  28. You mean 4? Discover and Amex are there too.... Helps if you don't completely misrepresent the situation.
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  29. The long game? Dude, S&P returns at 12%+ a year... Corporations are doing fine. If you really think you can do better then get in the game and run your corporation and do it better otherwise I don't want to hear it. When I can invest in the company and triple my money in five years, these corporations clearly are doing better than you so if you can triple your money in 5 years then you tell me how you're doing it legally. Otherwise, either get skills so you're valuable, or, take your money and invest in the profitable corporations. Or.... Cry about it and lose. Your choice.
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  30. Ceos don't give themselves raises. That's the problem. You literally don't understand how a corporation is structured. Shareholders give ceos raises. So yes, if we shareholders could find a ceo to run a corporation for less money we would. But ceos are hard to find, and they are normally already wealthy. So, we pay them to stick around. You act like we want to pay them money... Dude if you can find competent ceos for 5 million a year, I will personally ensure you get paid 25 million a year. This is literally no problem, I work with tons of funds with billions in assets, 25 million is pocket change, if you can save companies/shareholders from paying out large compensation packages, and you can find these star employees for 5 million a year, I will make sure you get that 25 million. Hell, can probably make it more. But until then, shareholders will pay the CEO, rather than let a company run directionless and tank our whole multi billion dollar investment. You get paid what you're worth dude. And I hate to break it to you, it's worth paying the CEO 20 million manage your 100 billion dollar investment. Get it through your head, the ceo pay has NOTHING to do with you average workers. It's because shareholders pay to protect their investment. When you invest your money in a company, you decider whether you want to gamble on a random new ceo, or pay the current one more money. For example, I've got a f ton in jp. Morgan. If Jamie Dimon wants another 2-3 million, I will vote to approve. Jamie has done 12.5% for my investment annually. His pay, has no reflection on whether I'll pay the bank teller more money. I pay him to manage a 500B business. I pay a bank teller to do something I can arguably automate. I can't automate a ceo.
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  31. They don't degrade the way we typically think of batteries and they are more recyclable than we normally think. CNBC has another video on how efficient the recycling process is. As for battery degradation, we've had cars out on the road with ten years of use and a lot less battery degradation than we see in our normal batteries. With that said, there are going to be other Solutions as well to complement this
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  32. People say stuff like this for ages..... Then cry when the companies still do well... Stop fighting... Just own the stocks....
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  33. The "Tesla will lose in the long run" I remember that when I started buying shares at $10-20. Lol.
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  34. You can't tax your way into fixing this. It's a growth issue. Pension programs on national scale fail when population slows. It's a population ponzi scheme. You either have to change the anti baby culture, or, accept personal responsibility. Otherwise, taxing to fix the issue slows economic growth, which is the second layer of the pension ponzi scheme. The uk is currently experiencing this and other countries in the EU. They're raising taxes to keep the pension system alive, which kills economic growth and lowers the amount they can receive on investing in the pension system. It's an amusing investment issue. The EU is gonna be very interesting to watch fall apart as they're quite further ahead of us when it comes to the life cycle of a country.
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  35.  @1bigboy500  that is not capitalism, you can't just insert capitalism for your reason. Capitalism is allowing for a competition, not artificially Banning it like the dealer network does. Throwing your hands up and just saying capitalism about anything regarding money isn't a valid argument. The whole point about capitalism is efficient use of capital, and if a middleman provides zero value, even if the price savings aren't passed along to the consumer, it would be more efficient to give it to the company that made the Innovation rather than and middleman which provides zero value. You really need to understand what capitalism is, because people like you will say these types of things without understanding capitalism at all and probably not even owning much capital
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  36.  @mintvelvet3351  then short it. Put your money up. Buy out of the money puts. Otherwise, you're just someone sitting on the sideline talking. I don't care. The business is financially sound. You can follow it and pretend you know anything about investing. Companies come and go for media attention. Do you think every company gets followed with the same scrutiny by the media? I don't follow hit pieces. Most of this stuff gets explained. Keep talking though it's all you can do. I invest in good companies. It's why I'm good at investing. You clearly are not. Investors look 20 years out not at the daily news.
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  37. ​ @jackcaffrey8493 also, the funny thing is, OK, we import these workers because we aren't birthing enough babies. So now, we destroy another countries birth rate by removing the prime age population from them (I don't believe this is by accident, but a way America has conducted a demographic warfare). I've looked at the birthrates from all over. We are crushing population growth by exporting our culture, and importing workers from crisis that ties back to us way too often. You have to control immigration to coincide with housing growth. We haven't done that... This idea any migration helps is stupid. Also, I find it insane because I don't understand how they juggle Muslim migrants, and their lgtbqia dedication. Whoever is walking that tight rope deserves a trophy
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  38. A ceo makes 30 million(this is high, and not normal). They have a million workers. We cut their pay in half. 15 million. Each worker gets 15 dollars. Are you happy? This is the problem with americans, you guys don't understand anything about the businesses you're talking about and have never looked at the numbers. You're just a mad someone else is making money. Even if all CEOs in America made $0, that would increase worker pay by less than $100.
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  39. They also forget go mention how damaging it is to have little equity in a home and then have to move during a housing downturn. I suspect a lot of people will be stuck in homes this recession
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  40. This headline is the definition and of America. I'm literally dead.
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  41. Your daily dose of state sponsored media telling you the plan is going well, just support it blindly 😂😂😂
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  42. Then invest in these companies....
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  43. Damn, you should be his defense, I probably would a convict. 😂😂😂
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  44. It's $800 for 2 cars. So don't make it seem insane here. I still agree though and it's the first thing I said while watching the video
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  45.  @gregdavison4458  the level of irrationality people have is astounding around business. You focus on the figure head and whatever stupid thing the media guides you to rather than financials. You'll never be good at investing taking it personally. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Tesla Apple too many people let their personal issues get in the way of money. I don't give a damn what you do. Do I think I'll make money long term investing in your company? Then I'm damn well gonna do it. And that's how I grow my wealth quickly it's nothing personal, just business. You go have your petty war with whatever person, figurehead or business you want to. I buy good businesses. All I care about.
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  46. If a ceo was paid 0, the average company could raise employee pay by $100 per employee. Probably less. Ceo pay has nothing to do with average worker pay. Workers work for the company. The CEO works for the boss the shareholders. As a shareholder, I'm happy to sign off on a 50 million a year ceo, and I voted for it. I am happy to pay Jamie Dimon whatever he wants. Because that's my decision, and I want the comfort of Jamie Dimon NOT LEAVING. I don't care how much you make as a bank teller. You're replaceable. As a shareholder, I don't care you make 1/10,000 of what Jamie Dimon makes. Because I'm not firing you if things go wrong. I can only fire him. So when Jamie Dimon grows my wealth 13% a year, and he wants a little off the top? I don't care. Because if I pay him 0, it won't increase my 13% a year return by a meaningful amount, but if I lose Jamie Dimon, and I get an idiot, I could literally lose my whole investment. That's why we pay ceos.
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  47. Lol you had me at first
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  48. People choose to live in high housing cost areas. I moved to California, and it baffles me how many people here refuse to leave but also can't afford it. People choose to live lifestyles they can't afford, then beg the government for more subsidies, which then, only causes people to demand a higher standard of life. You never will fix it with subsidies you need people to move to the mid west, where housing is cheap.
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  49. They didn't jump on this like everyone else. This was an aws service for years. 5 years old. Aws is the biggest profit driver of Amazon that drives the whole company. So yes.... This absolutely is real and isn't hot air. Amazon has a 25-30%ebitda cagr for a reason. That's why the stock is do valuable. It's still growing at an insane rate. None of this is new. Do you sleep through investor conferences? They explain these plans years in advance. Management's ability to execute on these plans is how they keep their job
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  50.  @Blimster  nothing valuable in the car to steal. I've had my car broken into twice with nothing stolen. Almost feels bad man. Why? My stuff not good enough for you? Lol
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