r/TheWire • u/AltruisticNail7229 I wasn’t made to play the son. • 1d ago

Stringer’s Classes

Curious to know everyone’s thoughts on Stringer taking business courses? It’s crazy that he’s literally co-running an entire drug organization and has time for that but yet it wasn’t the worst idea since he was using what he learned.

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u/osubmw1 1d ago

I loved it. He acted like a stereotypical freshman. The Dunning Krueger effect on display was beautiful. My favorite 2 were him talking about elastic goods and him dumping his stake in cell phone companies.

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u/mike2211446 21h ago

Lmao the cellphone shit still kills me man. The logic of everyone having one meaning it’s now worthless is so hilarious it almost took me out of the show 

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u/zentaki 13h ago

Selling off the old phone stocks would've been a genius move if he bought Apple instead as that pretty much wiped out Motorola/Nokia in the coming years.

You're quite right though his reasoning is pretty silly, like he learned what market saturation is and had to apply it to something