Ben Chestnut

Co-founder and former CEO of @Mailchimp. Father, husband, designerd, mountain biker and student of Objectivism 🇺🇸

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Notice how he doesn't explain a single problem.

He doesn't explain how anyone was harmed.

He doesn't explain how the wealth was acquired.

He doesn't explain why unequal outcomes are unjust.

He just points at success and hopes ignorance, resentment, and envy fill in the blanks.

[Mark Walker @markwalker5555]

One of the most laughable things on the internet is all the people in our government who have amassed a 39 trillion dollar debt telling us that if they could just tax Elon’s wealth, they could fix everything they have broken. 😂🤡

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

There is *zero* tension between wealth and democracy. Wealth is a result of productive earning, and democracy is a process of deciding political power by discussion and voting by civil people. There is, however, much tension between wealth production, on the one side, and, on the other, envy, the unjust denial of respect for achievement, and the power-lust of those who want to confiscate others' earnings.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@JacobRobinsonJD @paulg Shouldn’t the focus be the voters? But then you’d need to convince them not to be duped into thinking gov’t “is here to help me.”

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@draecomino @charlescwcooke The people who create get villainized.

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

Last year: 10%. This year: 50%.
They agree in principle; they differ in degree.
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[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@pedro_cristian @RaminNasibov It’ll come in handy when we’re battling the machines! https://t.co/iCF1dcBUvf

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@JoogSZN @RaminNasibov Remember the controversy when Descent 3 came out? You had to pay for the upgraded ship?

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

A quick Google search says your father in law is a billionaire thru Transtar Industries. Is he a hoarder? Also says “The millions of dollars in assets attributed to Ritu Khanna (and disclosed by her husband, Representative Ro Khanna) largely originate from investments, trusts, and inherited generational wealth through Mura Holdings.” Is generational wealth hoarding? Are trusts hoarding? Are trusts a way of avoiding taxes? Assuming your trusts benefit your kids, does that make them hoarders too? Why not move Mura Holdings from Ohio to California, so your assets can be “fairly shared” by the “community” in which you live?

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

😂

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

A guy sees 2 buildings on opposite sides of the street. One has the sign “Determinists’ Club.” The other building has a sign “League for Free Will.”

So the guy walks into the Determinists’ Club. When asked why he wants to join, he replies, “Because I choose to,” and he's thrown out.

Then he walks over to the League for Free Will. When asked why he wants to join, he says, “Because I had no other choice,” and again he's turned away.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

“Greater good” is the oldest costume tyranny ever wore. Once sacrifice becomes moral, every atrocity becomes negotiable and every individual becomes expendable. Rights exist precisely to forbid treating human beings as fuel for someone else’s utopia.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

"Activism" is an engineered dead end for young people who would otherwise be getting in the game and for boomers who already won it and are concerned with the ultimate luxury good: moral superiority.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Billionaires exist under both communism and capitalism. Under capitalism they get rich by selling people what they want. Under communism the ruling class gets rich by controlling and confiscating property through force.

That’s the whole point of abolishing property rights: making theft legal for the political class.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@LeftyWinter What economic system did those countries embrace to clean up their messes? 🤔

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

Mess created by Nazis (National **Socialist** German Workers Party): 6 million Jews killed.

Mess created by Union of Soviet **Socialist** Republics: 20-60 million

Mess created by Polpot’s attempted agrarian **socialist** state: ~3 million

Mess created by the **socialist** Mao Zedong: ~60 million.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

Earth only holds 370 quintillion gallons! Regulate granola now!

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Very concerned about Big Almond

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@LeslieBarandky @TomSteyer 1) Yes. 2) No.