Joe Rainey

Founder, CEO @StructionAI | prev @SierraSpaceCo & @UCLA | Founder @BruinReview | S: 545lb, D: 605lb, B: 405lb (AT)

[Abhay @AbhayVenkatesh1]

There are No Startup Ideas; Only Requests for Startups

https://t.co/89HMk2py9N

[Abhay @AbhayVenkatesh1]

I just published "Sovereignty Gaps" — don't make something people want, make something the system needs:

https://t.co/4sYLqXsBC6

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

@semicognitive huge!

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

@piersonmarks 100%

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

[un]real

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

@kylejeong wooden ftw

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

takes a small army of modern geniuses to shine a pale light on what Michelangelo vibe-chiseled

[Emre @emrekayganaci]

LoveFrom strike again.

Another uber expensive, beautiful, sculpturesque object.

With all these high-end, luxury designs I am excited to see more attainable consumer devices/objects from them. (OpenAI ??)

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

holy crap Struction is gonna win

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

@alexkshieh @antifraudco @AbstractVC @browdercapital @dunevc V cool

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

engineering circa 2028

[Eric Glyman @eglyman]

Rollercoaster Tycoon is a surprisingly good testbed for real-world planning, reconciling spend vs business impact, and allocating resources.

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

Big
Things
Coming

[jameson (big deck energy) @jamesonhaslam]

this is what happens when you pick Ryobi

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

Holy shit I need it

[David Liu @davidliuxyz]

i think we'll get to 100k users of https://t.co/bNj4fxzK0g

next question, how should we monetize this currently free service

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

few know how painful it is.
few know how rewarding it is.

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

Very dumb take.

Anyone who spends a second in construction will realize this is not harming interior designers - only empowering them.

The creative challenge is not idea generation, but harvesting cohesive design from a finite set of economically procurable materials. This just allows designers to iterate faster (e.g. take on more clients).

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

Nano Banana Pro is making millions of interior designers obsolete

I upload my floor plan and it design the whole house for me, and even generate real images for each room based on the dimension..

it's unlimited for a year & 4k on higgsfield now till monday

8 examples:

[Joe Rainey @JoeRainey]

This roof is buying some trade guy a brand new truck

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

This roof is an absolute abomination.

[Andrew Rea @andrew__rea]

you should probably not work at a startup or be around startup CEOs if you don't want to get asked about why this isn't happening faster... always, until you die or the company achieves mega-scale.

and even then, we're gonna want it to go faster.

and it almost always can go faster.