11-14-2006, 08:47 PM
When I was in 5th grade, I was a small businessman / loanshark.
I would always bring in like $2 in change and lend people money for lunch, and then I'd make them pay me double by the end of the week. It was ridiculous. And I think borrowing money from me became the "cool" thing to do, so everyone was doing it and I was just making a killing.
I would also go to the corner store and buy bags of those Jolly Ranger Sticks that cost a dime a piece. I would sell them for a quarter. Then there were kids who tried to do the same thing, but with different candies or even tried to undercut me. It became such a big deal that the teacher had to ban it.
Typical idiot, commie public school teacher. Rather than teaching the lesson about capitalism, market efficiencies, and how to maximize profit by buying in bulk, they just regulated the whole market away.
But for a while there, would make about $5 a week going to school when I was 9 years old. - like two or three packs of baseball cards.
I would always bring in like $2 in change and lend people money for lunch, and then I'd make them pay me double by the end of the week. It was ridiculous. And I think borrowing money from me became the "cool" thing to do, so everyone was doing it and I was just making a killing.
I would also go to the corner store and buy bags of those Jolly Ranger Sticks that cost a dime a piece. I would sell them for a quarter. Then there were kids who tried to do the same thing, but with different candies or even tried to undercut me. It became such a big deal that the teacher had to ban it.
Typical idiot, commie public school teacher. Rather than teaching the lesson about capitalism, market efficiencies, and how to maximize profit by buying in bulk, they just regulated the whole market away.
But for a while there, would make about $5 a week going to school when I was 9 years old. - like two or three packs of baseball cards.