Dana Homer

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[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@MichaelAArouet Where would you buy land?

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@MichaelAArouet Because it is the default at smaller scales (family/friends/community), but always breaks down at larger scales (states).

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@MichaelAArouet Wasn’t Poland the #1 destination for Ukrainian immigrants since the war began?

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@struprod @kallebergman @MichaelAArouet That would be ideal (if not impossible).

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@struprod @kallebergman @MichaelAArouet Enough government to restrain exploitation and monopoly, but not enough to become tyrannical. Enough market freedom to create prosperity and innovation, but not enough for corporations to capture society itself…

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@struprod @kallebergman @MichaelAArouet As an American living in Europe, I mostly agree. But it’s always easier to see flaws in someone else’s system than your own. Americans notice overregulation and bureaucracy here; Europeans notice corporate exploitation and work culture there. Both perspectives contain truth.

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@MichaelAArouet Is this trend realistically reversible?

If so, how?

And how much of the collapse in birth rates is primarily economic versus other factors like birth control access, changing cultural values, delayed family formation, women’s empowerment, secularization, etc.?

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

This is wild. Europeans are becoming really poor compared to others without noticing it.

83% of Spaniards don’t even make €3k per month, and the average is €2k, before taxes and contributions.

How do they make ends meet? How are young people supposed to have children?

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

@martinvars It’s such a pity to watch. It will have dire consequences for the future of Spain, it almost feels irreversible now.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

@MichaelAArouet Spain's median wage is €1,300. Argentina's fracking workers in Vaca Muerta earn €4,000. The difference is not effort or talent. It is regulation, tax burden, and energy policy. Spain taxes and regulates itself into poverty, then wonders why young people cannot afford children.

[Brew Markets @brewmarkets]

"You don’t get rich by diversifying into 50 mediocre assets. You get rich by finding 2 or 3 asymmetric home runs."

— Stanley Druckenmiller

[Dana Homer @DHomerMD]

@tommynw10 @ianmiles Beckham Law is like a bullseye 🎯 on your back for the Spanish tax man 😅

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

The only major countries in Europe richer than the US:

1. Norway with oil & gas

2. Switzerland with banks

3. Ireland with corporate tax evasion schemes

The rest of Europe is throttled by heavy regulations, overtaxation & left redistribution mindset. Will this ever change?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”

You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.

The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.

Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.

Source: @heynavtoor

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

@Literariium @elonmusk Over-regulation in Europe is exactly what drives innovation away to the US. We need fewer rules and more builders. It is impossible to innovate when every new technology is met with a committee trying to restrict it.

[✒️ @Literariium]

“The more laws, the less justice.”

— Cicero