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Was Bill rich, or in fact leveraged to being one crisis from bankruptcy?

posted 9 years ago by al666940-3
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Because while he has 3 houses (owned, or rented?) and an APPARENTLY thriving business (in season 4 he has his buddy cook up the books to cover losses), he's clearly leveraged beyond recovery, one financial crisis away from financial ruin (all stores mortgaged, owing money to Roman, etc).

Is that the American dream? How a man builds a business from "nothing"? Because if that is rule rather than an exception, then the American dream is that, just a dream, an illusion built on smoke and mirrors.

[–] wildbill8276 8 years ago

"Is that the American dream? How a man builds a business from "nothing"? Because if that is rule rather than an exception, then the American dream is that, just a dream, an illusion built on smoke and mirrors."

I would bet anything that you're a liberal, because only a liberal would take a fictional setting to run with their own personal bias.

Bill and his businesses were imaginary. There's no "American Dream" involved, because Bill's financial situation is whatever the writer(s) of any given episode says it is.

As far as having to pay Roman, it's no different than paying an investor in any real world business.

[–] the_reminder 8 years ago

I had similar thoughts.. I started watching this show from the beginning recently, and since the first season aired in 2006, before the 2007-2008 financial crisis (which of course had a lot to do with people around the country buying houses they couldn't really afford), I thought it would be interesting if the writers in later seasons picked that up and made the Henrickson's victims of the crisis. I guess they just had enough crises of their own making to keep things interesting for five seasons!