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奥派经济学者；现实主义政治哲学；斯多葛哲学；精益生产理论践行者。

[Estado Mínimo @xestadominimo]

“En cuestión de riqueza, lo fundamental es producirla, no repartirla”.

- Antonio Escohotado -

[Handre @Handre]

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme with one feature Bernie Madoff never had: the federal government will send armed men to your home if you refuse to participate.

Every working American pays 12.4% of wages into a system that holds zero assets on their behalf. The Social Security Trust Fund owns Treasury IOUs, meaning the government owes money to itself. When you pay in today, Congress spends that money immediately on current retirees and general expenditures. Your "account" is a political promise, enforced by statute, backed by nothing except the Treasury's capacity to tax future workers. Charles Ponzi ran the same structure in 1920 and went to federal prison for it. The difference is purely jurisdictional.

Free market economists succintly explained how this unravels. A pay-as-you-go system requires an expanding base of workers to fund a growing pool of retirees. In 1950, 16 workers supported each Social Security beneficiary. By 2024, that ratio sat at 2.7 workers per beneficiary, and the Social Security Administration's own actuaries project the combined trust funds reach insolvency by 2033. At that point, the law mandates automatic benefit cuts of roughly 21%. The math is not ambiguous. The program has been consuming its own structural foundation for decades.

You were never given a choice. No opt-out exists. Attempt to withhold your payroll tax and the IRS assesses penalties, levies your bank account, and ultimately prosecutes you. The moral weight of that coercion tends to disappear beneath softer language about "contributions" and "entitlements," but the underlying mechanism is identical to any other government extraction: comply or face force. Calling the payroll tax a contribution is calling a mugging a voluntary wealth transfer.

The cruelest part is what the coercion actually costs you. A 25-year-old earning $60,000 today who redirected their 12.4% payroll tax into a simple index fund over a 40-year career would retire with approximately $1.4 million in real assets, not a political promise subject to congressional revision every budget cycle. Instead, Congress gets the capital, allocates it to current political priorities, and hands you a benefit formula that the same Congress retains the legal authority to cut at any time. The Supreme Court confirmed in Fleming v. Nestor (1960) that you hold no contractual right to Social Security benefits whatsoever.

They built a mandatory retirement system where you own nothing, control nothing, and are protected by nothing except the goodwill of the people spending your money.

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"Si los imbéciles no te encuentran arrogante, estás haciendo algo mal"

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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@moriyama197071 你一定可以的。

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@0711__HS 没有资本主义，你活都活不了！

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@RomuloRyl24 读你们国家德索托教授的书就知道了。我都知道，你居然不知道！

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@so_phie_C @tindingtin 谁说？

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@gabrrlgh 用不了！

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@Prm_x_x_ @tindingtin 来来来

[Escuela Austriaca de Economía 🇦🇷 @DiegoMac227]

📖l Milei ha logrado llevar al gobierno varias de las ideas fundamentales de la escuela austriaca de economía, adaptándolas al contexto argentino.

👉🏼 Por ejemplo, Friedrich Hayek, en su obra "Precios y Producción", enfatiza la importancia de los precios como señales para la asignación eficiente de recursos en un mercado libre. En este sentido, Milei avanzó en la eliminación de regulaciones excesivas y controles de precios que distorsionaban el mercado, promoviendo un sistema en el que los precios reflejen la verdadera oferta y demanda.

👉🏼Por otro lado, Ludwig von Mises, en "La Acción Humana", argumenta que la intervención estatal limita la capacidad de los individuos para actuar según sus intereses, lo que afecta negativamente la prosperidad general. Inspirado en esta visión, Milei impulsó la reducción del gasto público, priorizando la eliminación de programas estatales ineficientes y fomentando la descentralización del poder económico hacia los ciudadanos.

👉🏼Además, Murray Rothbard, en "El Manifiesto Libertario", destaca la importancia de un sistema monetario sólido y critica la manipulación del dinero por parte de los bancos centrales. En este sentido, Milei ha promovido la emisión CERO como una forma de limitar y combatir la inflación crónica.

👉🏼Finalmente, Jesús Huerta de Soto, en "Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos", resalta la necesidad de reformar los sistemas bancarios para evitar la expansión artificial del crédito. Milei, alineado con esta idea, ha abogado por fortalecer la disciplina fiscal y promover la competencia en el sistema financiero, asegurando que las inversiones sean el resultado de ahorros reales y no de distorsiones monetarias.

Estas medidas, inspiradas en el pensamiento austriaco, buscan reconstruir la economía argentina sobre pilares de libertad, responsabilidad y orden espontáneo.

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@elenadesaa1999 罗斯巴德

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@macha3142 女拳，就是弱智的女权主义者。

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光凭他呼吁监管预制菜，就知道他是坏逼。再有钱也是坏逼？成功就是如你这样定义的？

[Tinyfool @tinyfool]

很多人在嘲笑老罗是行业冥灯，但是你真的比老罗成功么？哪怕他欠过巨额的债务，你真的能跟他的影响力和生活相比么？你们都是雷军、马化腾、musk的小号么？连普普通通的大V和大款都看不上了？

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@LuBtc888 胡说八道！资本是一切可用于生产的东西，有权力厉害？认识不到这一点，搞个毛线投资！

[余复来 @FlyYu2021]

人生的意义在于，你愿意赋予它什么意义。也就是说，一切取决于你自己，而不是他人。你有自由意志，你的人生，完全可以取决于你。

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.”

— Hermann Hesse

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none, zero."

- Charlie Munger

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@Conocimiento__ @xestadominimo 你在做梦吧！？

[余复来 @FlyYu2021]

当马斯克在X上建造起这座巴别塔的时候，一个善于思考的种族主义者应该明白，全世界所有绝大多数人，无论是中国人美国人日本人英国人非洲人，都是一样的浅薄、无聊。

但真正的用途不在这里，真正的用途是让全世界各国人民看到彼此之间最有用，最有价值的信息。