@GavinNewsom It’s immoral to pander to uneducated people who think the economy is a zero sum game! The wealth is the reward for solving extremely hard problems at scale and growing the economic pie for everyone
As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”
Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible.
Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs.
Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point.
While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide.
Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse.
Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable.
Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization.
Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned.
The lesson is clear.
Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property.
Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning.
The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.
@WatchersTank@Starlink With this stabilised footage against the horizon you can see how the Starship was perfectly vertical where the catch tower would be 🚀
@esherifftv 7.5 -the engine-out capabilities on both booster and upper stage were very impressive. I doubt any other rocket in the world has such redundancies.
@elonmusk It’s vital for AI to reason from truth and first principles —for our future! We are so full of biases and ulterior motives, AI cannot simply be allowed to predict based on the existing body of human knowledge