**BILLIONAIRE BOOTSTRAP PARADOX: Mark Cuban’s New Venture ‘Scarcity AI’ Refuses to Make Him Money – And Files for Bankruptcy on Purpose**

BILLIONAIRE BOOTSTRAP PARADOX: Mark Cuban’s New Venture ‘Scarcity AI’ Refuses to Make Him Money – And Files for Bankruptcy on Purpose

Dallas, TX – In a move that has Silicon Valley scratching its head and Wall Street smelling a glitch in the matrix, Mark Cuban announced today that his latest startup, Scarcity AI, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy—by design.

The company, which launched six months ago with a bizarre mission statement: “To produce zero value for its shareholders,” has somehow become the most profitable unprofitable company in history.

“It’s a loop,” Cuban said in a press release that was immediately flagged by the SEC for being “too paradoxical.” “Every time my AI predicts a market trend, it instantly deletes the prediction. The traders buying the opposites are making a fortune. My investors are furious. I’ve never been richer.”

Financial analysts are baffled. The company’s only product, a “Reverse Business Generator,” is designed to lose exactly $1.00 for every $1.01 Cuban invests. The penny profit anomaly—dubbed the “Phantom Spread”—is allegedly tied to a glitch in the Ethereum blockchain that only activates when a tech billionaire publicly declares they are “not trying to get richer.”

“We ran the numbers 47 times,” said Dr. Lena Thorne of the MIT Media Lab. “It should be impossible. But Cuban’s net worth has increased 12% since the bankruptcy filing. It’s as if the economy is scared of him.”

Cuban claims the glitch is a “cautionary tale about late-stage capitalism” and has filed a patent for the “Destructo-Corp Model,” which he plans to license to other billionaires.

The IRS has declined to comment, but insiders say they have assigned a special task force to figure out how to tax a