Many of you may already know about this case, but it is one that captured my imagination. This is the story of Belle Gibson and his she scams millions, grifted Apple, and possibly killed people. This aussie Sheila's life began in Launceston, Tasmania. Here, she proved to be a problem child and by the time she was 12 she ran away from home to live with a classmate. This living arrangement didn't last for long because she eventually moved in with a family friend. Rebellious, obstreperous, and stubborn, there was nothing her parents could do to set her on the straight path. She attended Wynnum State High School in Manly, Queensland, until dropping out in Year 10 (she would later claim she was homeschooled, but as you'll learn this should be taken with a grain of salt).

As Belle grew up she moved to different parts of Australia and eventually crossed paths with the skating scene. Here, she found a home with outsiders. But, as we all know, skateboards are bad boys and by 18 Belle fell pregnant. This would not spell the end of Belle's career and she decided to flex her entrepreneurial muscles by opening an app called The Whole Pantry. Now make no mistake, The Whole Pantry was widely successful. It made over $1 million in sales and she scored an exclusive deal with Apple. But what made this book so popular?

Health Complications

Well, Belle Gibson was no ordinary child. She was suffering from several serious, life-threatening ailments. She claimed to have malignant brain, blood, spleen, uterine, liver, and kidney cancers. Not long after, she claimed that the cancer had reached her liver and kidneys, and soon after she made the unfortunate announcement that her cancer had spread to her brain, blood, spleen, and uterus. Clearly, this was a dead woman walking. Doctors tried the best to help her, so much so that she momentarily died during heart surgery. Oh, she also had a stroke, just in case you were curious.

Despite the deck being stacked against her, Gibson survived and is now healthy as can be! How did she do it? Well, she gave the middle finger to conventional treatment methods and decided to attempt to try alternate methods to cure herself. One of the methods she recommended to her fans is Gerson Therapy. In case you're unaware, Gerson Therapy involves coffee enemas and a highly restricted plant-based diet. Of course, none of this is supported by science.

Belle Gibson the Philanthropist

With all the money Gibson was raking in, it only stood to reason that she would donate it to those in need. After all, she understood what it meant to feel desperate. Hence, she promised to donate a percentage of her book's proceeds to charity. At this point, Gibson may seem like a good person, but things are about to change.

Legal Consequences

So there are almost too many lies to uncover. Let's start from the top. She was not homeschooled. Around the time The Whole Pantry was released, the public started investigated her and found that she went by many aliases. Belle defended herself by stating that her mother changed her name five times. Hmmm.... It was also found that was three years younger than she claimed to be. A journ*list questions her about it and the results are hilarious.

Legal Consequences

After investigation, it was found that she had not donated the money that she promised to. In 2017, Gibson was fined Gibson was fined $410,000 which she did not pay. To this day, she has not paid this debt. Don't feel sorry for her, she is frequently seen on expensive vacations, indicating she has plenty of money to blow.

Of course, there were legal consequences as well. Apple pulled The Whole Pantry from the shelves. Furthermore, Penguin was forced to pay A$30,000 to the Victorian Consumer Law Fund as a penalty for failing to validate the factual content of the book.

Lastly, it is worth considering how many lives she took. People with cancer are desperate to live. They'll take anything that gives them hope. Belle Gibson gave them that hope, and then led them down a path that would surely lead to their death. That makes her an evil frick.

Here's the whole interview, it's hilarious. She's a pathological liar.

Obviously neurodivergent man spends large amount of money on nippon cardboard to try to get his girlfriend to play the game with him. She wanted makeup instead and now hates him.

Redditors advise he is worse than hitler.

He's a selfish dumb butt and is gaslamping you. He must be addicted to these cards.

Shitliberalssay immediately called it r-slurred: https://old.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/gdcvw6/stimulus_checks_are_socialism/fpgreu1/?context=8

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...also, mildly curious why you can't use "Aphex" or "Twins" for identifying that emoji to begin with lol

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— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 9, 2025

This was already in The Simpsons©

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Techxicans... or something like that.

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What the frick??????????

We can see this in the fact that all the money in the US is flowing upward instead of through the economy. Resources are being snatched to the top at rates faster than they are being generated every year. The US being a monopoly is a problem because a monopoly does not set the prices based on what the ideal supply and demand of a product is, but instead based on what's the maximum value that can be extracted from the consumer because he has nowhere else to go as a second option.

This is why we can see the Chinese so easily manage to provide products that compete with American products at such cheap prices, because the gap between the actual price set by American monopolies and the actual price at which the product could have been sold is so huge that you could have another country sell the same product at half to one tenth the price and still make a profit high enough to keep investing in the industry.

Another area where the US is failing is in the housing industry. When you take a house and resell it for 2-10x the price within a year or two you aren't actually creating anything that is flowing through the economy or improving the economy. You are just artificially increasing scarcity of an already limited product that does not result in any net positive for the economy. We have already seen examples of this play out historically, such as when land in Japan had reached a price point as high as entire cities or states in the US.

The US is losing now because even their exclusivity in the cutting edge market is being taken over by the Chinese and other specialized economies. The iphone lost to the android phone. Samsung lost to Chinese phones. The Tesla lost to Chinese electric vehicles. US robots lost to Japanese robots and South Korean automation. On all fronts there is some country out there that is now capable of producing the product that the US is trying to make, but at better prices.

The price inflation can especially be seen in the US tech market, as the newest generation of technologies such as robot dogs or humanoid robots are being sold at prices that the average middle class individual in the US wouldn't be able to afford for years to come. Those are prices that are only possible when a company has a complete monopoly on the market.

As of now the only thing that the US is leading in is spaceships and AI. Of these two only AI is truly relevant as spaceships would take decades to create something truly marketable that the economy can grow off of. AI on the other hand is revolutionizing global industries, however, China is just 2 years behind the US at most when it comes to AI. So it is not like the US can completely monopolize the AI industry like they did industries in the past.

The US has failed to create a successful additional layer to their complex economy, resulting in their economy stalling and American wealth aggregating at the top. The quality of life of the average American isn't improving anymore, as he is stuck in the same house with the same prices, and the only thing that changes is that his toothbrush gets an upgrade every 5 years. On the other hand the billionaire classes are hoarding far more wealth than any of them could spend, with the majority of top US companies being overinflated, which is visible in the fact that these companies today are only growing during times of global crisis, when they seem like the safest investment, and when these companies can buy up even more resources cheap from all the bankruptcies taking place around them. Which again doesn't actually add anything to the economy.

From 2023-2024 US GDP grew from 27.36 trillion USD to just under 29 trillion USD. Meanwhile in the same year, US billionaire wealth grew by 2 Trillion USD. This is very clearly not a sustainable system, where more wealth is accumulating at the top than is being generated through the entire economy in a year. The west has pretty much lost the plot, and the US economy has become completely captured by a few US companies that have completely monopolized the system. To the point where wage growth may not even be possible anymore without the President passing in into law.

All of these events are markers of an inefficient system that is collapsing in on itself due to the accumulated rot within it. For an economy to succeed there is a certain amount of money that needs to flow through it. For an economy to succeed there needs to be a certain number of businesses to keep alive healthy competition. On both fronts the US is failing today.

Today, every single major corporation in the US is too big to fail. None of them can be permitted to go down even when their products are getting worse or they have lost the ability to compete in the global market. Apple itself is overpriced in terms of how much of the global market it has captured and how much of the market is captured by other global companies with far lower net worth. If the only way a US company can compete with another global company in the same market is when they have 10x the resources, then the US company is clearly inefficient in the extreme.

Today, Samsung holds nearly as much of the global mobile market share as Apple, while having 7.1% of the market cap that Apple does. Apple is nearly 14x the net worth of Samsung yet they are competing on almost equal footing. If this is not inefficiency in a system then what is?

Today, Tesla and BYD electric vehicle sales in the market are at nearly equal footing, while BYD is 7.7% the market capitalization of Tesla. Tesla is worth 13x more today while having the same share of the global market sales as BYD. Again inefficiencies become apparent. On the global market, the US companies can only win by being monopolies based on the current prices that they are selling their products at and the current valuation of these companies. The moment any other major country reaches near parity in technological capabilities, it becomes well positioned to take down the US company.

This is why China is such a threat to the US economy. For the Chinese market is able to supply products at prices similar to Samsung, but with the mass scale advantage of a billion+ people economy. The Chinese have already surpassed the US in PPP GDP terms, being 10 trillion USD higher than the US there. This places China in a position to win over the European Market and any other market in the world. Limiting US sales to the US market. Which is to the disadvantage of American companies, as the US market alone is not big enough to grow these companies and sustain them indefinitely.

Conclusion:

The US is slowed down by the amount of monopolization of its industries that has taken place and the unwillingness of American oligarchs to let money flow through the economy, along with creating the equivalent of the broken window fallacy, by overcharging for products far above their cost of production would necessitate. China on the other hand has for all intents and purposes already surpassed the US and it is simply the motions of time that are having it appear to still be catching up.

The US can keep bringing in more immigrants to keep itself afloat, but the overall US IQ is going to keep dropping decade by decade as the US birth rates are below replacement, and the quality of immigrants keeps dropping decade on decade until the present year, where the average immigrant moving to the US is only 8 IQ points smarter than the average American and 5 IQ points smarter than the global average.

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