Neighbor Loses Everything Scalping GPUs

My neighbor was into scalping graphics cards, he bought THOUSANDS of them and was reselling them for a ridiculous price. He spent his entire life savings and took out a personal loan to get the ball rolling. His wife was pretty pissed about the whole thing especially the loan. He had everything in his garage and he was also running a mining gig...it overwhelmed the electrical and caught on fire and his garage and everything in it burnt to the ground, the cherry on top was that he also didn't have insurance it appears. He lost a TON of money and his wife left him. The moral of this story is...don't be an asshole.

A text-based anecdote describes a man who buys thousands of graphics cards to scalp and resell them, funds the scheme with his savings and a loan, and runs a mining operation in his garage. The overloaded electrical system causes a fire that destroys everything, while he apparently has no insurance and loses his money and wife. The punchline is the blunt moral: “don't be an asshole,” making it a reaction to reckless greed, selfish behavior, or disastrous financial decisions.

• @gentoomemes / 5252 2023-07-10