The best way is to never tell anyone and if you know something and its not your business, forget about it. If you can. They couldn't trust anyone. They didn't know if their neighbours, friends or anyone else would, or someone else would tell the Germans . A secret is not a secret if more than one knows.

To his credit, Abagnale prefaces his book by saying he interweaves fiction with the facts. The genius is he never specifies what percent of the writing is what and invites you to fill in the blanks. Naturally most of us like the romantic idea of the sympathetic conman and decided that 90% of what he said was true. Then, upon learning this is not the case we feel (gasp) conned.

The big problem is, they can't keep their mouth shut. They have a tendency of say things without thinking first. I guessing you never thought about about that

Except he didn't. He was in prison for most of the time covered by is lies. He just wasn't the amazing criminal he claimed to be.

Yeah. I thought we all knew that he was an unreliable narrator.

Author discovers that something we already know wasn't true, isn't true.

How about the SVB CEO lobbying to reduce risk regulations:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/11/silicon-valley-bank-weaken-risk-regulations-svb

Or SVB executives mass dumping their shares 2 weeks before collapse:

https://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-bank-ceo-sold-million-stock-before-collapse-1787062

Or SVB executives getting millions in bonuses hours before takeover:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-employees-received-bonuses-hours-before-takeover.html

As always, the shit rolls downhill. Tired of this clown world yet?

But nah, it's definitely remote work's fault. Weak risk management is solved by c o l l a b o r a t i o n.

Can't afford to sell eggs by the dozen anymore.

That's not evidence of cartelization. Again, what changed so that they couldn't or wouldn't do this in 2018, or 2009, or ...?

Cargill and Tyson for one. Both companies are keeping chicken prices artificially high and reaping huge margins.

Like I said, that doesn't work generally because of competition. If you have actual concrete evidence of cartelization, then you can cite the evidence of that.

This hasn't been true since the pandemic. The supply crunches have been used to obfuscate margin increases as a test to see what the market will allow before they react. We've proven that we'll keep buying and throw nearly all the blame at inflation and supply chain regardless of it often being the smallest part of a particular items inflation. This is true of most food stuffs increases to prices.

We've known this for at least a decade. I'm pretty sure it came out after the movie's release.

As did the giraffe.

I got a doz large eggs for $2.50.

I don't see what the problem is. Yeah, prices raise over time. Especially when driven by greed and disease.

What else is new? Big fucking deal. The reason we can't afford eggs isn't because of a small price raise to eggs. It's because rich people aren't paying their fair share in society, and it ends up taking all the gained wealth out of the system.

The orange asshole's tax cuts for the rich have kicked in, and you're feeling it. Now you're going to feel it for the rest of your life. Enjoy.

I don't like appealing to "want to increase profits" as an explanation for price increases. They are always wanting to increase their profits, so it doesn't help explain any particular price surge.

Generally what stops arbitrary price increases is the fact that it draws competitors into the market. So if you see them succeeding in increasing profits, it's because said competitors can't or won't, and if they can't, then that's rightly called a legit supply shock.

Now, if there were actual cartel schemes to hold supply down (the "won't" branch), that would be a valid explanation for malevolent price increases, but even then, that mechanism should be what you're appealing to, not "lol greed".

Edit: Economically ignorant people in this thread, don't bother.

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I think part of what worked about the movie was that it was advertised as a true story. If it hadn’t been, people would have called it ridiculous and unrealistic.

And rename it to "Dollar Egg"

Pretty sure the joke is much older than YouTube. My father shared with me before YouTube was a thing. We're German, so the joke is probably really fucking old if people across the globe know about it

A true master of the long con.

Respectfully stolen from the dad joke YouTube vids?

Yeah this makes a lot more sense honestly

No shit. The whole time I was watching that movie I was thinking "how do they know this happened? Because he said so?"