That's not at all what I'm saying? When did I ever say anything about conspiracy theories or keeping people down? Don't put words in my mouth and make me seem like something I'm not. It was a legitimate curiosity about how much of their revenue comes from the top 1%. Nothing more. If you read more into it, that's on you.
Professional athletes etc make up part of the 1%. There's nothing wrong with Acknowledging that fact. Pretending that it doesn't happen, or pretending to be blind is just ignorant.
I'm just saying the top 1% all tend to have Amex's, not every 1%'er has a chase card. 1 look at social media and you will find tons of videos about it. There was even a video where a store accidentally charged a rapper $250 grand instead of 25 grand on his black card. and the rapper just said to give him store credit. Meaning the $250,000 charge went through.
The top 1% make up a lot of revenue by themselves and yes this includes professional atheketes, music artists, etc. So I'm just curious how much of their total revenue is from the top 1%.
i agree, Its ridiculous.
someone correctly answered my question , part of his comment was talking about Amex's total revenue. I tried to tell him he made a good point, and added a sentence about Amex's revenue. Stating it wasn't a serious question just my curiosity. Wasn't meant to be anything serious.
and others felt the needed to go off topic and start talking about conspiracy theories and put words in my mouth and attempt to ruin the thread. And I just won't stand for it. There's no reason for that. i love this forum and I want to see it succeed.
Part of being successful means people need to feel comfortable saying something without someone else coming in and putting words in their mouth. If you want to act like that, go to Reddit.
yea if you knew you were going to reduce your util the smart thing to do would be to wait the couple extra days and then request. That scenario was more just to demonstrate that a profile can change quickly, although like you said this example wouldn't have real world implications most of the time.
unless you somehow ran into some money you weren't expecting like winning some money on the lotto or casino, getting an unexpected bonus. But those situations are rare.
These Cblow threads. They shall continue in perpetuity until death, like romances in nicholas sparks novels.
Thank you, that is exactly the type of answer I was looking for.
yes I'm not in IT, and I don't know much about the inner workings of computers.
I assumed that a giant company like Amex would already have the back end stuff to support this kind of thing. Whatever servers etc they needed. And therefore assumed that the up front cost would be relatively low.
to be able to handle that kind of volume from scratch would require a ton of up front cost, but I assumed that they already had the set up to handle that sort of thing, and wrongly assumed it would be a pretty simple programming/software change since everything is done by computers.
but you made it clear to me my thinking was way off, and now their decision makes way more sense. So thank you
I get your probably just trying to bust my chops, but I just wanted to say.
look I get it. You may find me annoying, maybe you even find my threads even slightly amusing. But I just want to say I genuinely do care about this forum and everyone in it. In fact if someone on here PM'ed me and needed a favor. I would do whatever I could to help. It's just the type of person I am.
Do I sometimes ask questions that seem stupid or obvious? Yes, but maybe the answer isn't obvious to everyone, and maybe it helps someone. that's all I'm here for, to try to help. I will always try to do my part to make it a better place.
i tried to start a thread on a topic I hadn't really seen on here before. Which is all I ever try to do. I just try to do my part, I'm not trying to be annoying or anything.