A retired MTA employee has pumped his $140,000 life savings into an ad campaign warning that the world will end on May 21.
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Daily Mail via Pam’s House Blend
Yet another example of religion’s toxic effects, this time on someone’s finances.
That said, here’s a free business idea: an end of the world investment scheme. When one of these nutjobs thinks the world is going to end and wants to tell the world by plastering buses and billboards with the message, lend them money, with a punishing interest rate to start the day after they think the world is going to end. If the world really is going to end, you won’t mind paying 900% interest on a loan, right? Take nothing for the ‘morrow.
