Andrew Tate’s sports cars are rented–so what?

I saw this going viral, “Andrew Tate exaggerates and did not own supercars in photos, his lawyers say.” This is the biggest nothing-burger ever. The media are so desperate to paint him as bankrupt or his success as illusory. The envy couldn’t be more obvious in the coverage. I correctly predicted in 2022 in the post “Taleb vs. Andrew Tate” that he would not go bankrupt and that his wealth is real, not merely “performance art” or “a front”. 4 years later, I was right and Taleb was wrong, being the sore loser he is. Tate’s business is thriving, with tens of thousand of customers paying monthly on a recurring basis for his various online courses and Discord rooms. Just do the math–there is no possible world where he is poor. It’s a simple calculation. The media are so desperate to create this narrative that the rich are not actually rich. People take comfort in the belief or myth that behind every person who projects or flaunts wealth that there is secretly a poor person underneath.…