🤯 Slovenija je v glavah bolj komunistična kot 🇨🇳Kitajska. Brez šale. Tam, kjer na zastavi visi peterokraka, imajo 539 milijarderjev. Pri nas, ki smo se s plebiscitom odločili za Zahod, jih imamo natanko — nič. Niti enega. Še Hrvati imajo enega, čeprav uvoženega ruskega oligarha.
Razlika je v glavah, ne v zastavah. Kitajska partija je nekje leta 1978 prebrala kapitalizem do konca strani: brez ljudi, ki vlečejo voz, voz stoji. Modri vodje so razumeli, da uspešni posamezniki niso paraziti, ampak motor. Niso jih obesili, niso jih ekspropriirali — pustili so jih ustvarjati. Lani so dodali 89 novih milijarderjev. V enem letu. Toliko, kot ima Slovenija občin, ki se prerekajo, kdo bo plačal vrtec.
Včeraj je DZ s 47 proti 35 sprejel interventni zakon, ki med drugim uvaja "razvojno kapico" na socialne prispevke pri 7.500 EUR bruto (3.900 neto). Po slovensko: nad to mejo nehaš plačevati prispevke, ki ti tako ali tako nikoli ne prinesejo višje pokojnine - ker je omejena navzgor. Skromen ukrep, kakršnega ima praktično cela Evropa. Avstrija pri 6.930 EUR. Italija pri 10.191 EUR. Hrvaška pri 11.958 EUR. Slovenija je bila edina v regiji, kjer so prispevki leteli v neskončnost, pravice pa so se ustavile pri povprečni penziji.
In zdaj pozor: gre za 13.750 ljudi, dober odstotek zaposlenih. In Svoboda, SD in Levica Vesna so v isti minuti, ko je padel zadnji glas, napovedale zakonodajni referendum. Sindikati zbirajo podpise. Naslov bitke: "Zakon za bogate". "Menedžerski pokrov". Kot da bi nekdo predlagal vrnitev fevdalizma, ne pa uskladitev z Avstrijo, ki menda ni komunistična velesila.
To je tisti komunizem v glavah. Tisti, ki ga na Kitajskem ni več, pri nas pa cveti kot regrat maja. Uspešen človek = sumljiv človek. Visoka plača = treba jo je kaznovati. Zdravnik, vodja oddelka, top inženir — pakiraj kovček, Dunaj te čaka, tam imajo to kapico že leta in te ne gledajo postrani, ker imaš plačo s pet številkami.
Kitajci so razumeli, da kapital ni sovražnik, ampak gorivo. Mi pa še vedno mislimo, da bomo z žaganjem najvišjih vej dvignili cel gozd. Še huje — zdaj bomo proti tej "katastrofi", ki je standard od Dunaja do Zagreba, zbirali podpise za referendum.
Kuba na sončni strani Alp. Samo da Kubanci vsaj plešejo.
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What this means for LINGO stakers:
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Welcome to the ecosystem 🔒
We've been heads down for 4 months.
Rebuilding. Iterating. Listening.
The product is almost ready. After that, we shift to GTM mode.
If you were here for LINGO Island, you know what comes next.
The engine is built. Time to fire it up
A few hours left on the MacBook Studio raffle.
This is the 5th gated raffle in a row that's pulled in almost 10x the prize value in locked stakes, and 15x in total stakes.
Five times. Same result.
The plan now is to increase the frequency. We started one every 3 weeks. We're at one every 2 weeks. Soon it'll be every week.
And here's the thing: we haven't marketed a single one of these yet.
All this growth is coming from our own community.
Imagine when we actually start pushing
Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop.
Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly.
The fundamental question is simply this:
Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.
I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.
Then they stole the charity.
I've been sitting on this data for a while.
Acquiring new users right now is hard. I won't sugarcoat it.
But the ones who join? They get it.
64% come back to stake again.
Those who start with ~$200 add ~$600 more on average.
Those who start with ~$1,000 add ~$5,000 more. Serious stakers grow their position 6.2x.
The product is harder to explain than it is to love.
Once people understand it, they go bigger every time 🔒
In January we made a decision.
Stop building for everyone. Listen to our top users. Build for them.
Since then, 12-month locks have nearly 4x'd.
Build for the right people. The numbers follow.
The next iteration was shaped directly by those users. Launching very soon 👀🔒
A year ago we were figuring out the model.
Today we're at 50M staked, a proven raffle flywheel, and a community that keeps showing up.
The best part? The full product isn't even live yet 🔒
Every gated raffle we've run has generated 10x its prize value in staking pressure.
Every single one. Three in a row.
$2,500 prize. $25,000 staked. $15,000 locked for a year. 0 marketing spend. Just community.
The model is proven. Now we scale it.
$4,500 Omega is next 🔒