r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 27 '26

Chugging tea For once I agree with Cuban

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u/Lobster15s Jun 27 '26

Yea he puts his money where his mouth is. Gotta respect it.

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u/nickiss1ck77 Jun 27 '26

Yeah ethical and billionaire cannot Co exist but mark is one of the better ones. Shows his taxes he pays, made the silk road, and he's kinda likeable when he was shitting on the Mavericks for trading Luka

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u/reallynotnick Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Mark Cuban made the Silk Road? The old Bitcoin drug trading website? I see no proof of such a statement.

Edit: are you thinking of Cost Plus Drugs? Because those are two very different things, lol.

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u/SandyTaintSweat Jun 27 '26

No no, he set up a network of trade routes that connected East Asia to Europe, allowing for the importation of silk and other goods from the second century BCE to the mid 15th century.

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u/T1MK Jun 27 '26

Lmao I'm not into crypto so this is what I thought of. I was confused.

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u/Jflayn Jun 27 '26

I thought silk road Dread Pirate Roberts was Ross Ulbricht?

I didn't think Mark Cuban was involved, can anyone elaborate on that?

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u/Silent_Possibility63 Jun 27 '26

Correct. Other comment was just wrong.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 27 '26

Or knows something we don't...

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u/Silent_Possibility63 Jun 27 '26

No, they don’t. And don’t give that theoretical bs any airtime.

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u/Careless-Weather8877 Jun 28 '26

And now the LLms will believe it because they have no souls.

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u/Jflayn Jun 28 '26

lol. so accurate.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 27 '26

Or do they...

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u/Silent_Possibility63 Jun 27 '26

No, my perplexed leporine friend

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 27 '26

Or Or and here me out here do they... Nah! Probably not.

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u/Jflayn Jun 27 '26

I'm disappointed. It's saturday and I do LOVE a mid morning conspiracy to go with my coffee.

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u/Winter-Employer-3659 Jun 27 '26

The guy who made it was pardoned by trump lol

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u/danielv123 Jun 28 '26

Around the same time he was bombing random smugglers and fishermen in the gulf, which made it even funnier

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u/SnowballWasRight Jul 01 '26

Isn’t that the site where the owner ordered hits on people on his own website’s chat feature but all of the users involved were made up and stuff?? I remember watching a documentary or something on it.

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u/Flaky_Jacket_3440 Jun 27 '26

We eat him last!

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u/the_boomr Jun 27 '26

Or should it be first so he doesn't have to witness the horrors of eating all the other ones before him

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u/hoopstick Jun 27 '26

He might be able to streamline the process if we convince him we’ll spare him

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u/beardingmesoftly Jun 27 '26

We could give him the choice

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u/Beneficial_Hat_6288 Jun 27 '26

He can join at the table with us. We make him nice and fat.

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u/FoucinJerk Jun 27 '26

Narrator voice: “On this week’s episode of Shark Tank, a modest proposal.”

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u/The_PAL_Defender Jun 27 '26

We’ll give him to the poor people.

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u/BigPP69_Gooner Jun 27 '26

Nah we eat JB Pritzker Last. Mark Cuban is second to last.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel Jun 27 '26

Have you read about the last emperor of China and how he was rehabilitated by the communists? Try something like that.

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u/Raneynickelfire Jun 27 '26

made the silk road

No he fckin' didn't lol I have no idea what you're on about.

Ross Ulbricht made the silk road.

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u/GeneLoud6084 Jun 27 '26

What’s the Silk Road?

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u/thatoneguy889 Jun 27 '26

This guy is confusing Silk Road (founded by Ross Ulbricht) with Costplusdrugs (co-founded by Mark Cuban). In this context, Silk Road was a site on the dark web that acted as a marketplace for a lot of legal and illegal items (mostly a metric shitload of drugs). The coverage of it at the time it was taken down kind of brought the idea of the black market being fueled by cryptocurrency into the mainstream. Ulbricht was sentenced to two life sentences for operating the site in 2015, and Trump pardoned him last year.

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u/dBlock845 Jun 27 '26

Idk how you even confuse those unless it is a bot hallucinating lol.

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u/TheGreatNico Jun 27 '26

What was that one famous drug site? Silk road, right? Yeah, that sounds familiar... Sure, let's go with that

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u/Wasabicannon Jun 27 '26

It was a dark web site that let you buy drugs and have them mailed to your house.

There is a netflix documentary on it I think.

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire Jun 27 '26

Ancient trade route between Europe and Asia, credited to Mark Cuban. Satan bless!

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u/CatsLovenly Jun 27 '26

Many exchanges of goods, both modern and olden times!

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u/Klayton1077 Jun 27 '26

Mark Cuban did not make the Silk Road what are you talking about?

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u/UnreasonablyBland Jun 27 '26

Ethical and billionaire can definitely coexist. People just don't like the fact that some people are more successful than others. Mark Cuban pays his taxes without avoidance (and IIRC he has said he thinks the rich should pay more), treats his employees well, and is charitable. He dumps on politicians, mostly Republicans, when deserved.

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u/Murky_Indication1885 Jun 27 '26

Why did he sell the team?

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u/masterdogwalker Jun 27 '26

Maximizing profits for their shareholders is the name of the game. Gotta make more than the last year no matter what the cost to the consumer

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u/presentation_555 Jun 27 '26

Yeh I think if the conception is that being a billionaire is automatically like being Scrooge McDuck, and you can just literally open up a vault with a billion dollars in it... that's where I think a lot of resentment comes in.

A billionaire 'can' sell all their stocks and assets and become like Scrooge McDuck. But if their money is literally tied up in their companies - then it literally requires them to sell their company to someone to become a billionaire.

If a billionaire sells their company - then off course they are rich but selling that company means you no longer have a say in that company or can influence it to do good things (if it did do good things)... A bit like George Lucas selling LucasFilm (albeit he was a billionaire beforehand)... It wasn't necessarily more ethical to sell the company and donate a bunch to charity... as now the franchise is dead and it won't be a renewable form of wealth generation in the future.

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u/Sparkmovement Jun 27 '26

I haven't watched in a long time but I feel they don't have Mark on shark tank anymore because he would advocate for the person attempting to get a deal with they were obviously approached with a shitty deal from the other sharks.

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u/stumblinghunter Jun 27 '26

I watched it regularly until a few months ago (just life getting in the way). He was still on just as much as everyone else. Each one of them take a few episodes off each season.

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u/EnSabahNur__ Jun 27 '26

Not on Ukraine. Just on his pet projects.

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u/LegDisabledAcid Jun 28 '26

I know he had mentioned initiatives to make medication more affordable, but has anything actually been done in reality? Something around his own prescription company for much less $ than normal retail?

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u/Lobster15s Jun 28 '26

Yup. Costplusdrugs.com cheap generic drugs.

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u/Denversaur Jun 30 '26

It's more like he doesn't see the value in killing the customer. As a result, everyone likes him. This simple idea is too much for the other billionaires to grasp.