A few things to keep in mind:
1. Most of the people you’re afraid of offending don’t give two fucks about offending you.
2. Those friends of yours that laugh, make smart ass remarks, and take little digs at you for trying to be better in your life aren’t your friends.
Real friends make you better.
3. The people you think are so much stronger, smarter, and better than you, aren't. They are just better at faking it.
4. You have an obligation to shine bright AF and blind motherfuckers with how great you are regardless of what people think about it. Other people will win or lose based on if you win or lose…
That means it's an obligation to kick ass.
So kick ass.
5. Everybody is scared… but what the fuck else we gonna do? Not even try? There is nothing worse in life than not giving it all you got and wishing you had.
Go hard.
Dave: “Hello, caller, you are on the air.”
Caller: “I don’t think billionaires create value.”
Dave: “Okay. What do you mean by that?”
Caller: “Nobody can earn a billion dollars ethically.”
Dave: “Alright. What do you do for a living?”
Caller: “Well, before this, I was a bartender.”
Dave: “Nothing wrong with bartending. Honest work.”
Caller: “Right.”
Dave: “And now?”
Caller: “I work in government.”
Dave: “Okay. So let me get this straight. You're saying Elon Musk, who helped build PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink, has made innovations like online payments, electric cars, rockets, and satellite internet possible, didn't earn his way to being a billionaire?"
Caller: “None of that justifies being a billionaire.”
Dave: “Well, sure sounds like value got created somewhere along the line.”
Caller: “I disagree.”
Dave: “What exactly did you build?”
Caller: “I advocate for economic justice.”
Dave: “No ma’am, I mean actual products.”
Caller: “…”
Dave: “You’re telling me the guy catching rockets mid-air created less value than a person who used to serve mojitos and now votes on spending his tax dollars?”
Caller: “That’s unfair.”
Dave: “What’s unfair is pretending markets are imaginary while cashing a government paycheck funded by the businesses you claim don’t create value.”
Caller: “I’m actually a congresswoman.”
Dave: “Oh Lord. Of course!"
Roughly 220 billionaires reside in California. They employ roughly 10 million people. If a wealth tax passes, everyone with a billion-dollar idea will think twice about whether they want to build that business in California. But that isn’t even the most dangerous part.
When this turns out to raise less money than expected, the bar will be lowered to $100 million. Then $50 million. Then $10 million. Then $1 million. They’ll call it “the millionaire tax.” And since ~80% of the California population isn’t a millionaire, they’ll vote it into existence because “it doesn’t affect them.”
But many of those “millionaires” are providing jobs. Housing. Innovation. Buying products and services. They’re a net economic benefit. If you discourage them from living in California, they will leave. Then it becomes a downward spiral where they have to tax everyone else to stay afloat.
Not saying the system is perfect. But a simpler solution might simply be: spend less money and encourage more people to move back / create a billion dollar idea.
Andy Frisella goes OFF on foreign loyalists:
"It's very f*cking simple: We are not obligated to care about ANYTHING except America's interests in America."
When you talk about your big plans, they tell you to "be realistic".
When you start to "go", they pretend to clap.
If you win, they will say you got lucky.
If you stumble, they are going to laugh and call you a loser.
They will smile in your face and pray for your downfall in the same breath.
Fuck these people.
Instead of spending time trying to win people over that are going to resent you no matter what…
Forget about them and focus on being the best you possibly can and winning as big as you can.
Do that and you won't have to say anything.
They will be eating their own shit with your undeniable results.
Eventually you'll forget their names…
…but they'll never forget yours.
#100to0
Here it is Ohio.
The Ohio EPA has decided that data center wastewater being dumped into Ohio's waterways, and lowering our water quality is acceptable.
Lake Erie and the Ohio River sustain Ohio's high quality water tables, by acting as aquifers and a natural source of filtered ground water. This was all created by the glaciers.
They are going to destroy it. When all is said and done, taxpayers will suffer from the health implications and then foot the bill for future remediation.
The Ohio EPA declined to comment on the proposal.