Can a president with zero self-discipline and 0.0 business sense be trusted to know when and how to turn the economy back on?

@UnlikelyTomato It's not that hard to become rich when you...

a). File for bankruptcy 6 times to get out of paying your debt
b). Don't pay income taxes for years
c). Set up a non-profit charitable trust and fund your personal rich lifestyle
d). Bilk consumers for a fraudulent university
e). Hire illegal workers to pay below market wages

@MarkPaul There are financial benefits for running things into the ground, organized crime does this a lot.
Buy up or commandeer a business, run it into the ground while taking the money.
business files for bankruptcy and those responsible walk away and move to the next.

@Darksideinthenight2 Death rate will change.

@UnlikelyTomato True... but that's also an indication of 0.0 business sense because there are others who are wildly successful, particularly in a capitalist oriented economy, and they never run the business into the ground or declare bankruptcy.

@MarkPaul business is business, even if it destroys business.
Running business into the ground for profit is a business in it's self and can be lucrative.

"Business sense" is not the way to describe it.
a better term would be ethics.

@Darksideinthenight2 The number infected are going to double before long.
when the healthcare system is overwhelmed more people will die from covid and other causes alike.

@UnlikelyTomato It's definitely business sense.

@MarkPaul Let's agree to disagree.

@UnlikelyTomato Nah. You don't have the credentials for that.

@MarkPaul neither do you.

@UnlikelyTomato How dare you! I've take several economics, statistics, and business classes. You don't know shit. No offense.

@MarkPaul first off, you don't say that anywhere on your profile so there is no way for anyone to know (provided you are telling the truth).
Second, good business is what makes wealth, doesn't matter how it's gained.
third, anonymous people who argue on the web using their "credentials" immediately looses the argument. No verification that anything you say is legit.

Try again?

@UnlikelyTomato You're just a kid. You have no practical or life experience.

@MarkPaul sounds like an argument from someone with nothing else but to attack the opponent.

@UnlikelyTomato Seriously? You literally are doing that to me. If someone does the things you admit he did... drive a business into the ground, declaring bankruptcy out of need, etc., uhhhh... that's lack of business sense. If you knew the fundamentals of business, you would know that. Ever hear of the 4 functions of management, genius?

And, I'm not going to put the classes I've taken in my profile.

@MarkPaul You assume making profit off failing business is an uncontrolled, unplanned, poorly lead and organized move.
wrong.
if the goal is to make money and deliberately killing a business achieves that, than it was a good business move.
Having a good "business sense as you call it" is great if you are building up a business from scratch, and mostly applies with the lawful and ethical side of business (specifically public business.)

To entrepreneurs, wreaking a business sounds like nightmare of bad decisions, but when the payoff can be in the hundreds of thousands to well over several million dollars, it becomes a lucrative strategy for accumulating wealth and assets.
If you do this through your personally lead, carefully controlled, organized, and planned business, it becomes a good business strategy.
and by extension, a good business sense.

@UnlikelyTomato This makes zero sense... it's as if you have no business sense of your own. Just reciting the 4 functions doesn't mean you have the skills or experience to use them. If you look at his record, he bumbled his way through negotiations and decisions leading to failures. The bankruptcies masked those failures that you, for some unknown reason, want to elevate as smart business tactics. WRONG! He has accumulated his money through inheritance, by stiffing contractors, and by hiring illegal workers. Each of those indicate 0.0 business sense and combined suggest a colossal failure. He is certainly good at lying, puffing up his own record, and convincing people like you he's something that he's not, Bernie Madoff style.

He has brought that 0.0 business sense along with him to his performance in the White House as he tweets, plays golf, watches TV, insults people, and entertains rubes (like you - no offense) with his egotistical imagery and fantasy of how great he is.

Get yourself some business sense.

@MarkPaul why are you assuming i'm defending that carrot, I never said that was what he did specifically, only that money can be made by deliberately ruining businesses and that some people have made it their business to do so.

originally just wanted to point out that despite his failures he must be doing something right to be in the position he is now.

You and I are on the same side, chill.

@UnlikelyTomato Okay, fine. But, that's like saying Harvey Weinstein was doing something right to have been in his position before getting jailed. Or, OJ, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff, and so on. Get the idea?

Stop relying on cliches to fuel your analysis.

@MarkPaul if you succeed at something than you are doing something right, even when the means and the end are destructive and unethical.

@UnlikelyTomato You mean like Charley Manson? Ted Bundy? Timothy McVeigh?

@MarkPaul I guess you could use those as an example.

@UnlikelyTomato 🧐