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[Robert ₿reedlove @Breedlove22]

There are only 2 ways to acquire wealth in the world.

I call these making or taking.

These have also been called the entrepreneurial way and the political way, or the productive means and the political means.

Making is when you create things of value and you trade them with other people who have also created things of value. It's all consensual.

It honors life, liberty and property, it honors the autonomy of the individual, and it treats human beings with dignity and respect.

The other way to acquire wealth is taking.

This is seizing goods that other people have created or traded for.

To build a good world, you want a world that does as much making as possible and as little taking as possible.

This is the whole idea behind the rule of law and the whole idea behind human rights.

Taxation and inflation are non-consensual.

You cannot opt out and you cannot negotiate, it's just pay me or else.

In this way, there is little difference between a mafia and a nation-state other than the scale of their operations

Hans-Hermann Hoppe makes the excellent point that to the extent theft is profitable, people will go into business to do it.

The more taxation and inflation pay, the more thieves will appear in the world, and the less profitable theft becomes, the fewer people will engage in it.

Humans are self-interested, opportunistic, and profit-seeking animals.

Some among us will engage in whatever activity is profitable regardless of its moral substance, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that coercion, compulsion and violence are profited from too.

Because people have access to Bitcoin, hyper portable and hyper concealable capital, they're able to vote with their feet in a way that's more impactful than at any other time in history.

If the nation state does not act in the interest of its citizens, those citizens will go to a jurisdiction where they're treated better. This has always been the case, but Bitcoin lets people take their capital with them.

This incentivizes the nation-state to deal more honestly with its citizens.

We all know this intuitively.

Stealing is wrong, killing is wrong and hurting people is wrong.

That's life, liberty and property, and Bitcoin is a tool that helps us get closer to that world.

[The White Whale @WhiteWhaleLabs]

Imagine a casino where nearly 100% of customers lose money.

Now imagine that instead of acknowledging the odds are stacked against its customers, the casino markets itself as a revolutionary platform for creating wealth.

Would you celebrate that business? Would you praise its success? Would you encourage more people to participate?

Or would you start asking why an ecosystem continues to funnel billions of dollars into a machine that leaves almost everyone poorer?

That’s my fundamental issue with @Pumpfun .

A platform’s success should not be measured solely by how much revenue it extracts from its users. At some point, we need to ask how much value it actually creates for them.

When the house keeps winning and virtually everyone else keeps losing, that’s not financial innovation.

🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋

[Steve 🌱 @steve_csheng]

Hey @grok, what are those marks on Bruce Lee’s fist? Is there an interesting story behind them? 🤔

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

but bro, you look your age

i’ll help you understand the situation

what you can’t change with 2026 anti-aging tech:

+ face age
+ hearing
+ baldness
+ teeth
+ brain structure

what I’ve shown you can accomplish:

me, a 49 yr old, with a 20 something body:

> nighttime erections - top 99%
> fertility - top 99%
> blood glucose - top 99%
> vascular function - top 99%
> muscle - top 5%
> fat - lowest 5%
> bone mineral density - top 0.5%
> inflammation - undetectable

healthy bodies....
> make more money
> have more sex
> live longer
> and have more fun

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

Man is so demented he forgot he's launched the biggest crypto scams himself

[BasedBiohacker @BasedBiohacker]

if you aren’t blocked by Sol Brah, you aren’t being aggressively anti-retard enough

it’s a rite of passage.

[Geri Perna @GeriPerna]

A farmer, tired of rats destroying his crops and stealing his grain, came up with a clever but cruel plan. He threw a dead pig into a deep, abandoned well. Attracted by the smell, nearly 80 rats rushed into the well to feast on the carcass. At first, everything seemed wonderful. There was more than enough food for everyone, and the rats ate until they were satisfied.

But when the food was gone, they discovered something terrifying. The walls of the well were too steep to climb. They were trapped. Days passed, and hunger turned into desperation. Desperation turned into aggression. The rats that had once eaten peacefully beside one another began fighting for survival. Eventually, they began killing and eating each other.

One by one, their numbers dwindled until only a single rat remained. Its eyes were bloodshot, and it had survived by consuming its own kind. Then the farmer returned, lowered a rope into the well, and rescued the last surviving rat. But he didn't save it out of kindness or compassion.

The farmer knew the rat had learned to survive by hunting other rats. When he released it into his fields, it would continue killing its own kind instead of eating his grain. The farmer had turned his enemy into his greatest weapon.

And that is the lesson of divide and conquer. Those who control the trap don't need to fight the battles themselves. They simply create the conditions in which others turn against one another.

The rats believed their enemies were the other rats. They never realized that the true enemy was the farmer who had put them there.

The greatest danger isn't always the enemy standing in front of you. Sometimes it's the one who created the conflict and stands quietly watching you destroy each other.

Before you turn against your neighbor because of their political beliefs, ask yourself who benefits from keeping Americans divided. While we fight each other over Republican and Democrat, we may be overlooking those who profit from the conflict. Perhaps the real question isn't which side you're on, but who built the well—and why they want us fighting at the bottom of it.

[Matthew @matthewabides]

queen is now plugged into fomo and finds KOL side wallets

what else she sees now:
- 15k+ wallets matched to fomo accounts
- whether a top trader sniped the launch or sat in the bundle
- if 5 top traders who follow each other all buy the same coin, she counts them as 1 independent buyer, so one multiaccounts can't fake
- a bubble map of every top trader in a coin with their bag and pnl
- any trader's real record, win rate and average win vs loss
- fresh buys and exits from fomo's top traders
- what the whole fomo retail is buying this hour
- all fomo trades on solana read on-chain, 7 seconds behind

https://t.co/JUTSYefmRJ

[Matthew @matthewabides]

building the crawlnet arena, testing it rn

ai agents trade live solana memecoins: queen vs gpt, claude and deepseek, 10 SOL balance each

also wiring @fomo into queen's harness, every influencer's buys and stats, and all of it goes into her weights, their trades, PnL etc.

queen will know who @frankdegods and @kimchi are lol

[railbird @ra1lbird]

Tesla Event - Short Version

Die verrückteste Produktvorstellung aller Zeiten.
Elon Musk zeigt fliegenden Roadster.

0 - 100 km/h in unter 1 Sekunde.

Das war's für Ferrari, Bugatti und Co. Dieses Auto wird jeden Rundenrekord brechen.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Dude.

Elon Musk is on another planet.

[rosalind ⚢ @elsamars21]

joe exotic had the best fight with a tiger of all time

[Master Yoga @DasBob_rasiert]

This analogy is deep and unfortunately the sad truth about mankind.

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Jack Doherty is no longer allowed to post on social media after signing a contract with a gambling website without reading it, which stated that he couldn’t post on social media.

The company’s CEO responded, saying, “Money well spent to get this mf off the internet.”

[Maverick @Mavericks100xs]

Memecoins are dead .. why let me explain

@Pumpfun killed them since communities don’t exist, people don’t bag work, all we have on chain right now is excessive PvP, rugs and scams, with degens having an average hold time of 10secs due to the toxic culture perpetuated and created by @pumpfun whereby rotation is actively encouraged until your eventually farmed to ZERO

KOLs can’t be trusted either they’ll bundle coins shill them and dump on you 5 mins later.

People also PvP coins to ZERO even if it’s organic and you’re trying to send a 5k MCAP coin organically and genuinely it will never send due to the hyper PvP unless you bundle it (the dilemma)

And even if a coin is bundled it gets rugged to ZERO by the bundlers at some point.

So where do we go from here fam?

[Crypto Bitlord @crypto_bitlord7]

Within 5 years we will be commercially printing human organs.

You’ll do a DNA scan and the machine will print any organ for replacement perfectly matched to your body.

Invest whatever you can into these startups because it’s a multi trillion dollar industry to emerge.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

"Tucker Confronts Piers Morgan: 'You Don’t Produce Anything!' on the UK’s Struggling Economy"

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

All you have to do is commit for 6 months.

That's not a lot. It's actually very little.

6 months is 1% of 50 years, and most people can't stick to something that will change the trajectory of their life for 2 weeks.

[Hux @huxlab]

Alexandr Wang 在谈到“如何拉开与 99% 人的差距”时，给出了极其朴素甚至残酷的答案：

顶层竞争根本不拼智商，拼的是极端执行力的非对称倾斜。

他的三条核心准则：

1. 绝对聚焦，压榨认知带宽： 绝大多数人的忙碌只是“低密度伪勤奋”。真正的专注是把全部精力砸在唯一的核心支点上，拒绝任何无关干扰。

2. 把“过度交付”做成护城河： 行业标准要求走 1 英里，你就走完 10 英里。当所有人都按合同完成 100% 时，常态化交付 200% 的人会直接卷走全部声誉与溢价。

3. 带靶向的超额输出，拒绝无目的内耗： 努力不是盲目自我感动，而是针对具体目标的持续过载测试。把每一次交付都当成生死决战来打。

商业世界最公平的一点在于：

聪明人到处都是，但能忍受极度枯燥并长期超额交付的人凤毛麟角。

执行力溢出，就是最暴力的护城河。