As the @FIFAWorldCup 2026 unfolds across the #United#States, #Mexico and #Canada, a 2015 video of Qatar’s Amir Sheikh @TamimBinHamad Al Thani speaking at #Georgetown University has resurfaced online. The discussion, held years after Qatar secured the hosting rights and before the tournament took place, touched on regional and global issues as well as Qatar’s vision for the event. Reflecting on the significance of the World Cup, the #Amir emphasized that the tournament was “for all the #Arabs, not for Qatar,” underscoring its role in uniting the Arab world and shaping the legacy of #Qatar 2022.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Kawhi talk this much 😅
“Big hand man, so I never lose it…”
“You see the drip… I’m always fresh if the Feds watching that’s what 2 chainz said.”
“My daily music rotation includes… Rich Rocka. CashBoy Tax, and myself included…”
(h/t @JamCristopher)
"Sifuna is a very good friend of mine. And there's no way I was going to run for Senate if he was running, I know that because I am one of the people who receive very row intelligence."~Jalang'o
David Sacks just delivered an economics masterclass on Elon becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
@davidsacks: “People see the headline and imagine Elon suddenly has a trillion dollars in the bank. That’s not how it works. His balance sheet didn’t change overnight.”
Why?
The real point is deeper. Wealth isn’t in the “stuff” we consume. Food, shelter, clothes. Things that depreciate and disappear. It’s in the machines that create stuff for decades: tools, workflows, and corporations.
These are the true engines of human progress.
“If you create a machine that makes more stuff, then there’s a discounted present value for all the stuff in the future that machine might create. That’s where the wealth comes from.”
Elon started with nothing. An immigrant who slept on the floor building Zip2. He created these machines from vision and relentless effort. Thousands joined him, including a SpaceX welder who turned his labor into a million dollars in stock.
That’s the magic of tech and free markets: labor can become capital. It’s fluid.
The outrage misses this entirely. The people building machines that deliver medicines, energy, and abundance are creating lasting prosperity for everyone.
What do you think? Does viewing wealth as future productivity change how you see stories like this?