Michael Moe

Investor + Entrepreneur, Founder @GSVTEAM, Author of Mission Corporations, The Global Silicon Valley Handbook and Finding the Next Starbucks

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Awesome! 🇺🇸

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Moments like this remind us why we love TRAVEL ✈️

@SouthwestAir Captain Jim shared his final flight before retirement in the cockpit with his daughter, First Officer Julia.

Captain Jim’s been flying for 43 years, has over 18,000 hours of fight time, and was in the Air Force for 21 years

This is what inspiring the next generation of aviation is all about 👏

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Moments like this remind us why we love TRAVEL ✈️

@SouthwestAir Captain Jim shared his final flight before retirement in the cockpit with his daughter, First Officer Julia.

Captain Jim’s been flying for 43 years, has over 18,000 hours of fight time, and was in the Air Force for 21 years

This is what inspiring the next generation of aviation is all about 👏

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

The future belongs to the builders….

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

This is SO good….you have your AIRFORCE…AI Revolution Workforce and your SMARTFORCE…your Human Capital….

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

💯correct…

[Golf Channel @GolfChannel]

"It rains F-bombs on the PGA Tour. Clubs get thrown all the time. Tee markers get destroyed."

"Composure is a skill, and it's lazy to throw clubs and it's lazy to drop F-bombs when you know the whole world is watching."

Brandel talks about the code of conduct that has been put in place at the majors.

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

40 minutes long and worth every minute…Just Capital is the future

[Ed Baker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚜 @EdBaker97]

Texas. Jesus what a place.

I often see Americans say on here “the European mind can’t comprehend..” and they’re are completely right.

From the scale of everything to the true southern hospitality. I loved every second and hope to be back soon. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Just saying……

[Dave @ Max @Max_Sarcasium1]

@RealJamesWoods

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

The National Anthem at the White House was absolutely epic!!! 🇺🇸🔥

Wait for the flyover!!!!

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Sunday night thoughts…

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

As simple as this formula is, it couldn’t be more accurate

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Pay people enough so that they're not under financial stress, but not so much that they become fat and happy. You want your people to be motivated to perform so they can realize their dreams. You don't want people to accept a job for the security of making a lot more money-- you want them to come for the opportunity to earn it through hard and creative work. #principleoftheday

[C3 @C_3C_3]

386 days after Elon’s decline and fall…

He’s the World’s first trillionaire.

The Media truly does suck.

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

🇺🇸💰🚀

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

AM Juice🧃…

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Boy did the WSJ get imaginative…

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

#6 @wsj Companies of The Future!
https://t.co/B4cywRPJqk

[Michael Moe @michaelmoe]

Must have a lot of uneducated people in the World 😉