Second-Grade Bubblegum Empire Scammed Rich Kids
“One girl came in and her parents owned all the Dominoes franchises in Indiana... she has these pink diamond earrings and goes, Mason, what can I get for these?”
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it down to figure out like what is actually possible. I read somewhere. This was a fascinating story to me. How does the second grader end up with diamond earrings and some sort of trade with some gum? What was this about? Yeah. So as I mentioned, I became really good at math . So I won, I won a math contest at my school. And the prize was this one set bubblegum machine,
right? Like, I don't know if you've ever had, you know, the little one tiny little one set bubblegum. So it was a tiny little machine about the size of a baseball. And rather than being a normal kid and just eating my gum or giving to friends, I started selling it, right? So I'm in second grade. I'm selling on playground, one set bubblegum for 25 cents. And then very quickly, this was all probably
within like two months time, maybe one month time, but I then started bartering. So other kids would come,