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Silicon Valley is already losing the wealth tax debate by arguing that “founders would lose control” or “the golden goose would be gone” or “cut down fraud first.” They’ve lost frame. No one outside of a tiny population in the SF Bay Area cares about “founders.” No one cares about the golden goose when they’re not directly making money from it. In fact, that’s the whole point, they want to get money from the golden goose. If you’re saying eliminate fraud first, you’re basically agreeing that if there wasn’t fraud, seizing private property is justifiable in a cost-benefit analysis. No one cares that “millionaires are next!” These are all losing arguments. A wealth tax is anti-American and stands against everything this country was built on. It is downright evil. It fundamentally destroys this country’s competitive advantage and we will be an irrelevant fallen power in the future, just like so many before us. But once you accept the other side’s frame and try to “rationally” argue against it, you’re losing. Fight fire with fire, not irrelevancies that most of the country doesn’t care about. People care about the destruction of the American experiment. Make that case, not a weak pushback that accepts the other side’s frame.

Just launched my blog: The Power of And. danilk.substack.com/p/the-po… It is about building AI-native services in the real world where software meets regulation, capital, compliance, and operations. First post: why cross-functional excellence is the real AI moat. And you can read a rant version of it in the X article below. If you are building AI that touches the spreadsheet economy (legal, consulting, insurance), this is for you.

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think getting and renovating a big office is a good use of time and money when you're extremely pre-PMF. Spending money is not success. Making money is. This was our office when we were half the size and 10x the revenue as this team. Our main perk was all-you-can-drink horse electrolytes (3rd pic). Rent was $6k. I also wouldn't delude myself into thinking that the fancy office is a recruiting tool. You don't want people joining you because of your sauna and surfboards. You want those who do because of your mission, your team, your traction. Having a fancy office gives everyone the false impression that you've "made it." My intention is the exact opposite: we haven't made it, we can die any moment, and we better work our asses off (not go surfing of sauna'ing) if we want to increase our odds of survival.

Elon’s stance on immigration has been pretty consistent. Here’s him outlining it in 2023: