If you can take too much vitamins. Can you take too much capitalism and get sick?

bigarrow · Mar 6, 2011

Quote from HowardCohodas:

Every doctor is taught that the only difference between medicine and poison is dose.

I was taking 25,000IU of A a day which from what I'd read at the time was the upper limits of a safe dose, but it was too much for me.

CaptainObvious · Mar 6, 2011

Quote from bigarrow:

One of the biggest scams is the CEO pay and the bullshit that they have to be paid that or the company will lose the talent. Where the f^k are they going to go and make millions of risk free dollars a year and a golden parachute, they can't get it. And there is no way for us stock holders to stop this. It's a good ol boy system where the board of directors are in bed with the management and the investing middle class is locked out. I don't know the solution but I'm for doing something.

It's a game similar to the worker being held hostage. Take the impoverished wage, or there's the door. Invest your dollars with us for a meager return, or enjoy you're money market account. It's all risk free for them whatever happens. Company does well, great the man makes a billion dollars. They run it into the ground, oh well, guess I'll have to get by on 999 million.
When failure at the lower level of a society becomes as profitable as success, Houston, we have a problem. When that happens at the top, Houston, we've lost the ship.

trefoil · Mar 6, 2011

At the end of The Big Short, where the very few who figured out both what was going to happen very early on, and figured out how to make money off it, go off and do whatever it is they decide with their winnings, Michael Lewis points out even the guys on the other side of the trade made a killing: none of them really got hurt by being wrong. Some trader at Morgan Stanley who lost the firm 9 billion dollars, the most ever lost by a single trader anywhere ever, got to keep his millions in bonuses.
Very disheartening. This was not true in 1929, or with S&L's in the late eighties. Only today, where it's seen as perfectly normal for a losing CEO or trader to still get his bonus regardless.

JJacksET4 · Mar 6, 2011

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Only today, where it's seen as perfectly normal for a losing CEO or trader to still get his bonus regardless.

But this is true for athletes as well - do good in college, get $50 million to sign with the Raiders - a few years later you proved you sucked and you still get your money. Same with head coaches, etc. Sure they can get fired, but they still get their money for the 2-14 season. There are 100s of musicians who I would never listen to making big $. There are book writers and movie produces who make millions of dollars only for their big production to flop and still get their $, etc, etc.

Gabfly1 · Mar 6, 2011

Quote from HowardCohodas:

Every doctor is taught that the only difference between medicine and poison is dose.

Correct. And the parallel applies to economic systems as well. As I had noted in my earlier post, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

Askmega · Mar 6, 2011

Quote from Gabfly1:

Correct. And the parallel applies to economic systems as well. As I had noted in my earlier post, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.

The beautiful this about this information is you can tell (assuming you are not a dumb ass) where this is all heading.

If this continues as is (and there is no reason to see anything will change)

USA will at some point have a civil war. 1-20 years from now.

athlonmank8 · Mar 7, 2011

Obviously there's not a shortage of "stupid" running around.

Mayhem · Mar 7, 2011

Quote from Askmega:

The beautiful this about this information is you can tell (assuming you are not a dumb ass) where this is all heading.

If this continues as is (and there is no reason to see anything will change)

USA will at some point have a civil war. 1-20 years from now.

Who you gonna fight in this civil war? The 0.01% who sell off their remaining stuff and move to Singapore? Or, are you gonna fight the new Chinese overlords who buy up everything with their massive surplus of dollars?

You might as well start the revolution now because kicking Obama's and The Bernanke's ass today has got to be easier than kicking some Chinaman's ass when he has his private armies, the US military, and the US gov't behind him coupled with the fact he has no concept of human rights or human decency.

murray t turtle · Mar 7, 2011

Quote from bigarrow:

No myth, I've seen a nician flush cause a man to get sick, I've had a multiple vitamin make me sick, I think it's the high dose of B vitamins that does it. Too much vitamin C and also magnesium can give you loose bowls. Not life threathing that I know of.

Too much fish oil while taking aspirin can make bleeding hard to stop. Too much vitamin A can be toxic. It's been a while since I've read up on this but I think there have been deaths from vitamin A over dose. I took too much vitamin A years ago, my hair started falling out and the skin on my face started peeling. For months afterward I couldn't even eat a carrot without the side effects showing up again and my skin turning a funky shade of brownish orange.

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Mr Big arrow;
your stats practically[key word=practical ], prove mr.d hedges point....................................................................

Live long & prosper, big arrow;
but try wild /canned alaska salmon. Sure it may be more USD[$] than fish oil, but sick is exspensive-hey, some people do not even work when sick.

murray t turtle

bigarrow · Mar 8, 2011

Thanks Murray, that's mostly what I do now days. The vitamin A over dose I had happened 20 years ago, back when I was a vitamin fanatic.