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One of the most ethical and moral things you can do is profit. Doing so means you have found a way to meet somebody else's need while at the same time reducing waste (their previously best offer).
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Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky. Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky. This proves one thing. It's not about protecting children. It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.
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People are defending Elon’s trillions on the basis of the wealth and good he creates. And that’s fine — I do that too. But it has the unfortunate implication that Musk’s riches are only ethical because of the good he’s doing. And that just encourages socialists to come up with ever more elaborate litmus tests for whether someone’s wealth is morally acceptable. In a free market, rich people get rich through consensual exchanges, usually with a great many people. Most exchanges are positive-sum, so even if the rich person doesn’t have a grand narrative about electric vehicles, free expression, helping the blind, building rockets, or digging tunnels, each exchange made the other party better off. That’s not irrelevant. It’s an important part of the ethical defense of free markets. But it’s not the crucial issue. The crucial issue is that the exchanges were voluntary. And that can be true even if every trade is zero-sum. Take a horse-track gambler who becomes rich by consistently exploiting inefficiencies in the betting market. Each exchange is zero-sum: bettors put money in, and only some of them get money out. If you become rich this way, you didn’t create wealth. But you didn’t harm anyone either. You didn’t steal from anyone. Every exchange was voluntary. You may not feel the same sense of awe toward this person as you would toward someone who built a fleet of spaceships. Fair enough. But that’s a different question. So yes, remind people of the good Musk’s companies are doing. It matters, because economics is deeply counterintuitive to most people, especially when it comes to the benefits that emerge from large decentralized systems. But don’t let them walk away thinking that the good Musk is doing is the reason he “should” be a trillionaire. He should be rich because the vast number of exchanges he participated in were voluntary. It’s really that simple.
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Im Grunde genommen basiert die gesamte linke Ideologie auf drei Grundannahmen: 1. Vermögende Menschen haben ihr Geld ungenutzt auf dem Konto liegen. 2. Wenn man ihnen dieses (in Wirklichkeit nicht existente) Giralgeld wegnimmt, entsteht kein Schaden für die Wirtschaft. 3. „Warum drucken wir nicht einfach mehr Geld und verteilen es an arme Leute?“ Linke Parteien existieren nur, weil es immer genügend Leute gibt und geben wird, die keine Ahnung von Wirtschaft haben.
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Legacy media is now pushing another narrative: “Virtually all of Elon Musk’s wealth came from government help.” This is completely false. Government contracts are not subsidies. SpaceX wins contracts because it offers the best product at the lowest price. NASA pays SpaceX for real launches, real cargo missions, and real astronaut transport, not charity. SpaceX is expected to get less than 5% of its revenue from NASA this year. Add up every government incentive Tesla and SpaceX have ever received, and it is still less than 2% of the value of Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla did not become the world’s most valuable car company because of tax credits. It became huge because it built better EVs, better software, better batteries, and the best charging network. And when the $7,500 EV tax credit was removed, Tesla sales increased. The real reason they’re obsessed with Elon Musk is that he exposed how irrelevant they have become. People no longer wait for newspaper editors, TV anchors, or corporate journalists to tell them the truth. Legacy media lost its monopoly on information. Now all they have left is clickbait, outrage, and anti-Elon narratives. And that’s exactly why the trust in media is at an all time low.
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This whole Elon “trillionaire” conversation is depressing because it reveals how economically illiterate we are. A $1 trillion net worth does not mean Elon walked into a village, stole everyone’s bread, and locked it in a vault. In fact, he probably consumes fewer real-world resources than the average Hollywood climate activist screaming about him from a private jet-adjacent lifestyle. Elon built things people voluntarily use, and invested in companies that created massive value to billions of people. The collective quality of life of society has been elevated by this man’s work. He didn’t get handed a trillion dollars and start hoarding all the food, houses, and medicine. Elon is a contributor. Not a taker. Probably the biggest one alive. Which is why he’s worth $1 trillion and the people who don’t understand that are still yelling “fair share” into their iPhones.
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In Denmark, the immigrant groups costing taxpayers the most in welfare are the same ones dramatically overrepresented in rape convictions. From a purely economic standpoint, it would seem like the Danes are paying immigrants to rape them.
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Replying to @adamcwejman
Vetenskapligt skäl för att äta eller inte äta något = huruvida det är ätbart eller ej. Metafysiskt skäl: Man tror på andeväsen som befallit en att inte äta det ena eller det andra. I det senare fallet kan jag inte se något rationellt skäl för att skattebetalarna skall börja anpassa skolmenyerna till folk som tror på det ena eller andra. Vill man inte ha det som bjuds kan man låta bli.
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I’m bored even typing this out, but wanting to preserve your people’s ethnocultural continuity and avoid becoming a minority in your own homeland, especially given the disastrous consequences of mass migration, does not make you a white supremacist. It’s such an intellectually lazy and dishonest smear.
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The West is increasingly becoming aware that, if it is to survive and ensure its way of life continues, Islam has to go. So, what do we do about the millions of Muslims in the West? Make them realise that there will be no special privileges, full stop. If Western society wants to ban street praying, halal slaughter, or burqas, then it doesn't need their permission. The West doesn't need to compromise on its own values and principles to make room for Islam. Sorry Muslims, you played your hand way too soon. This realisation is becoming more and more popular among Westerners. Fit in or BOOT OUT!
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"It has also been claimed that the unit intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions." So basically I was right. The British state pressures grieving families. Absolutely outrageous.
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Reminder that Doctors Without Borders spent two years at Nasser Hospital before admitting Hamas was using it as a terror base. During that stretch, the group refused to treat 20 Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid workers wounded by Hamas, leaving them to die in the courtyard
Just in: Doctors Without Borders staff have been sexually abusing underage refugees in Chad — including trading aid for sex, and indications of organized sexual trafficking. For those who've followed the group's ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, this is hardly a surprise
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Are you a murderer for not donating all your savings to Africa? No. >You don’t kill someone by keeping your own money >Not giving someone your money isn’t the same as taking their life Same people who don’t know what a woman is obviously don’t understand murder either.
By conservative estimates Elon Musk probably killed hundreds of thousands by taking a chainsaw to global health programs. He’s not a visionary, he’s a dimwit and a monster.
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Elon Musk has created 4,400 millionaires over night. They are largely working-class people. Welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff were paid in company stock instead of higher salaries. They are now multi-millionaires. Jeremy Corbyn has created 1 millionaire. Himself. Bernie Saunders has created 1 millionaire. Himself. AOC has created 1 millionaire. Herself. Socialism vs. Capitalism Socialists don't know how to create wealth, they only know how to steal it.
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“If we liquidated this business that has created thousands of jobs and also promises to propel man to an interplanetary existence, we could give everyone a minimum-wage pay check for one month.” I’ve yet to see a tweet that better exemplifies leftism than this.
If we liquidated Elon Musk as a financial entity we could each pocket $3,000. Just putting that out there. 3K. Not bad.
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One of the greatest lies ever told is that “the left have good intentions” We see with the outpouring of jealousy, envy and bitterness at the news of Musk becoming a Trillionaire - it is total nonsense The left don’t want to lift up the poor. They want to tear down the rich.
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
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I just learned something new. They don't tell you this in school. More Europeans were taken as slaves to North Africa than Africans taken to the USA. Read that again. Of course all slave trade is horrible. But why don't we hear more about the Europeans that were taken?
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“The UK has a problem with Asian grooming gangs.” No we don’t. There aren’t gangs of Japanese, Mongolian and Nepalese immigrants committing atrocities everywhere. They are mostly from Pakistan. And they aren’t grooming. They are raping and torturing.
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RT @deadalnix: Michelle, These "racist attacks" happened because you gave up on doing your job, or worse. Obviously, this isn't as good a…
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What?? The British Empire lost… to PAPER?? Right, listen. Men convicted of trafficking children for sex in Rochdale. UK: "You're being deported." Man: "Nah." UK: "Excuse me? We've stripped your British citizenship, off you pop." Man: "Then I renounce my Pakistani citizenship too — RRRIP (passport)." UK: "…what." Man: "I'm now stateless. Citizen of nowhere. International law says you can't deport the stateless. Owned." UK: "ngghhh…" "record scratch" Hang on hang on. He did this by tearing up his passport a few days before the Court of Appeal ruling. One little RIP — and the entire machinery of the British state just powered down. Battleships, colonies, MI6, James Bond — beaten by an origami crane somebody tore in half. "honk" UK phones Pakistan. UK: "Your national has—" PAK: "Not ours, mate. He renounced it himself. Not our problem." UK: "Couldn't you just—" PAK: "click" beeeeep… The tribunal: "Honestly, it'd be fairly easy for these lads to get their Pakistani nationality back." The criminal: "don't wanna ♡ (unwilling)" UK: "Ah. Can't be done, then." — IT CAN BE DONE. Why is a convicted trafficker's "don't wanna ♡" beating an entire G7 nation?! Ministers who swore to close this loophole: a long, proud line of them. Every one defeated by a bit of paper. You lot think you're running a country. You're doing arts and crafts. Scissors and glue. Grade: D minus. Honest question: in a country where a convicted child trafficker can stay put with a shrug and a paper-tear — what was the point of actually winning the trial?
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The billionaire supposedly doesn't need the money because he'll just earn it back. The socialist supposedly does need the money because he won't. That's quite an admission about who actually believes in work ethic and productive ability.
why do billionaires care if they lose all their money ?? they'll just make it back with their superhuman work ethic, right ??
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