Grant Shurtz

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HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM:

This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.

What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!

I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth.

Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🚨 Andrey Santos on Michael Carrick giving him the confidence to play forward:

“Somebody asked the other day, ‘Why didn’t we see these passes before you joined??’ I just smiled. I said, ‘Because believingg you can play a pass and believing your manager wants you to play it are 2 different things.’

One day after training Michael called me over.
I thought he was going to tell me to keep things simple. Instead he said, ‘Every time you see a forward pass… I want you to play it. Don’t worry if you lose one or two. The one thatt gets through changes the game.’

Then he added something I’ll never forget.
‘Andrey… don’t let the ball get comfortable at your feet. Make the opposition uncomfortable instead. If you already know your next pass before the ball arrives, play it. Keep the game moving.’ That conversation stayed with me.

I’ve always believed I had these passes. Michael just became the first manager who kept asking me to use them. Once you know your manager trusts your vision……you stop playing not to lose the ball. You start moving it quickly enough that the opposition never gets time to breathe.”

[J. 🇭🇷 @JosipFCB93]

This was then 15-year-old Enzo Fernandez writing this on social media when Messi announced his retirement from the national team. These kids are now dying for him on the pitch. Its a fairytale ending to a perfect career. Not even in movies would this ever happen.

[𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗬 @JossyFCB]

🚨🎙️ Julián Álvarez on how Argentina treats Lionel Messi:

“People think we take care of Messi because of everything he's won.

That's not the reason.

We take care of him because he has spent his entire career taking care of Argentina.

When you share a dressing room with him, you quickly understand that he never asks to be treated differently. In fact, he's usually the first one to joke around, the first one to congratulate a teammate, and the last person to make anything about himself.

That's exactly why everyone naturally wants to protect him.

If Messi loses the ball, the first thought isn't, 'Why did he lose it?'

It's, 'Let's win it back for Leo.'

That's the mentality of this team.

We know that one touch, one pass, or one moment from him can change everything. So if we have to run an extra five or ten metres to give him that chance, we'll do it every single time.

For us, Messi isn't just the captain.

He's the heartbeat of Argentina.

Wearing the same shirt as the greatest player in history isn't pressure.

It's a privilege that we'll be telling our children about for the rest of our lives.”

[Lexa @Alexaxfcb]

No me había dado cuenta de esto pero en el Argentina - Cabo Verde, el capitán de Cabo Verde ganó en el lanzamiento de la moneda y le dijo a Messi “Dale, elige tú”

Lo que es ser el más grande de todos

[Total Football @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: The Green party-led Bristol City Council, which banned St George's flags flying during the World Cup as it was "divisive and makes migrants feel uncomfortable", has now been COVERED in St George's flags by locals

F*ck the Greens, this is England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

For the 1st time in my life I have caught World Cup Fever. No Scotland….No Party

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

Scotland should win the World Cup just for this alone.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting analysis

[herculez gomez @herculezg]

Tyler Adams and Raul Jimenez star in one of the best football commercials you'll ever see. Reminiscent of iconic early 2000s ⚽ ads.

I’m dying with Channing Tatum as Erling Haaland’s stunt double. 💀

[Jota @jota_snchez]

Larry Ellison acaba de hacer la única pregunta que ningún periodista en la Tierra puede responder.

Un periodista del Wall Street Journal le dijo a la cara a Larry Ellison que Elon Musk no sabe lo que hace.

Ellison no discutió. No se alteró. Solo hizo una pregunta.

Ellison:
“Este tipo aterriza cohetes sobre plataformas robóticas en medio del océano… ¿y tú dices que no sabe lo que hace? ¿Alguna vez has aterrizado un cohete?”

Una sola pregunta. Sin posibilidad de recuperación.

Ellison:
“¿Quién eres tú? ¿Por qué debería creerte a ti antes que a mi amigo Elon?”

Esta es la pregunta que toda la clase mediática lleva una década esquivando:
¿Quién eres tú para juzgar?
¿Qué has construido?
¿Qué has lanzado?
¿Qué problema has resuelto que no implique un teclado y una fecha límite?

Ellison:
“Ahí estás tú, delante de tu Apple Macintosh, escribiendo un artículo diciendo que Elon es un idiota.”

Se sientan detrás de un portátil que no diseñaron.
Usan una red que no construyeron.
Funcionando sobre chips de silicio que ni siquiera pueden explicar.
Para decirle al mundo que el hombre que envía humanos al espacio no sabe lo que hace.

Nunca han construido nada más pesado que un documento de Word.

Y aun así lo publican con absoluta certeza.

Eso es lo que debería inquietarte.
No la crítica.
Sino la confianza con la que la hacen.
La ausencia total de autoconciencia necesaria para juzgar disciplinas en las que no durarían ni un semestre.

Musk no opera en opiniones.
Opera en la capa física del universo, donde las matemáticas funcionan… o el cohete no regresa.

Sus críticos operan en un editor de texto.

Construyó el vehículo que transporta astronautas de la NASA a la Estación Espacial Internacional.
La constelación de satélites que lleva internet a zonas de guerra activas.
El coche eléctrico que obligó a todos los fabricantes del planeta a abandonar sus planes basados en motores de combustión.

Sus críticos más ruidosos construyeron una firma al final de un artículo.

Entonces… ¿por qué tanto odio coordinado?

Porque perdieron la correa.

Los ataques no aumentaron porque Musk empeorara como ingeniero.
Aumentaron porque compró X.
Abrió el algoritmo.
Le devolvió la plaza pública a la gente.
Y destruyó su capacidad de controlar lo que puedes pensar.

No odian al ingeniero.

Odian que el ingeniero les quitó el monopolio.

No puedes cancelar un cohete.
No puedes publicar un artículo contra la gravedad.
No puedes editar las leyes de la física.

Ellos controlan la narrativa.

Él controla la física.

Y uno de los dos va camino a Marte.

[Dante 🇺🇸 @DanteTheDon]

Was not ready for Eric Church to deliver the best commencement speech I’ve ever heard.

Six guitar strings. Six pillars of a life.

Faith. Family. Spouse. Ambition. Community. You.

Tune them when you’re whole, not just when you’re broken.

Watch the whole thing.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[Baba @BabaDClint]

He turned his living room into the Emirates Stadium. 😎

[Indianapolis Colts @Colts]

rt to win!

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This video will change your mindset... 💯💯

[Kyama ⚽ @ElijahKyama_]

Troy Deeney on Amorim's sacking.

"One of shock. I'm a big Amorim fan. He's done things wrong but he's tried to create a foundation for Man Utd to be long-term successful. Getting rid of Rashford, Garnacho. Player power overrule it."

Dropping facts!

[Indianapolis Colts @Colts]

last day to #ProBowlVote means DOUBLE VOTES‼️

rt for a chance to win this jersey signed by the rook.

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