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As if convincing Cuban is a great feat - he was also convinced to have the Mavericks partner with Voyager, a cryptocurrency platform which is now bankrupt.

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It's almost as if not all start ups/business/investments become successful, shock!

But here stands a man who is successful and does good things.

Promoting a Ponzi scheme and scamming consumers is a bit worse than a typical business failure. But sure, he does "good things."

https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/mark-cuban-mavericks-face-...

The cryptocurrency platform may be bankrupt, but Mark isn't.

He made money on a terrible ponzi scheme, now he made money on something good to try to improve on his reputation (which is much harder, and probably he makes less money in the good thing).

Still, he's saving lives now, US healthcare is in terrible shape.

Much better press than his disaster case study of bad if not outright total-shit management of the Dallas Mavericks regarding employees misconduct and enabling it.

Dude has zero good will with me anymore, and this is a nice start on a better direction.

As a general rule it’s pretty safe to assume that a billionaire is a greedy, selfish asshole. Otherwise they wouldn’t have got there. I really wish we would stop praising billionaires and looking at them for wisdom.

I accept all these complaints about Cuban. Twitter closed my account for criticizing his China ties.

But what have you and I done even close to as significant as bringing down the price of subscription drugs?

I have done nothing to bring down price of subscription drugs. But unlike billionaires I have also not lobbied for socially harmful things like shareholder value over everything else, tax cuts for wealthy people, privatized for maximum profit health care, abandonment of pensions, different tax treatment for income from investment vs labor and many other things.

Do you think bringing up these familiar critiques is even close to as significant as bringing down the price of subscription drugs? I'd trade Cuban's accomplishments on that alone for any amount of your whinging.

First let’s see if prices really will come down for patients.

Done and done.

https://costplusdrugs.com

It's almost as if the Russ Hannemann parody of Cuban in Silicon Valley was based on real life!

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