Sandeep Patel

Human. 😎🤓👍❤️

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A Tesla employee once described what happens when Elon Musk walks out of a meeting. Mid sentence. While someone is still talking.

Elon has told his teams explicitly: "Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value. It is not rude to leave. It is rude to waste people's time."

The employee said the first time he saw it happen the room froze. A senior vice president was presenting a quarterly update and Elon simply stood up, nodded slightly, and left. No explanation. No "excuse me." The presentation continued but nobody was listening anymore. They were all processing what just happened.

Over time the employee said it became normal. People understood the rule. If Elon leaves it means one of two things: the meeting doesn't need him, or the meeting shouldn't exist. Both are useful signals. The meetings got shorter. The presentations got sharper. People stopped scheduling meetings to feel productive and started scheduling them only when a decision needed to be made.

He said the rule sounds brutal in theory but in practice it created the most efficient meeting culture he'd ever experienced. Nobody rambles when the CEO might stand up and leave. Nobody pads a presentation with filler when the audience includes someone who values his time in 5-minute increments.

Most companies worship the appearance of collaboration. Elon worships the elimination of wasted time. And the difference between the two is why Tesla moves faster than companies ten times its size. The discomfort of watching someone leave your meeting is smaller than the cost of keeping someone in a meeting they don't need to be in. Most leaders aren't willing to make others uncomfortable to save time. Elon considers it a moral obligation.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just explained why a species that solved survival still can’t say what it survived for.

Famine. Plague. Predators. Ten thousand years spent answering one question. How do we get to morning.

We answered it. The prize was a life optimized for everything except a reason to live it.

Musk: “Life cannot just be about solving one miserable problem after another. That can’t be the only thing.”

He isn’t philosophizing. He’s naming a design flaw.

Every institution we built aims at one target. Don’t die. We hit it, then kept firing, because nothing was ever drafted for what comes after.

A solved problem returns you to zero. That is its entire function. Zero is where you stood before it arrived.

So a life spent only solving problems is a life spent returning, over and over, to the same coordinate. You can do that flawlessly for fifty years. Nobody would call it failure. There isn’t a word for it.

Because a life held perfectly at zero and a life that never happened leave the same evidence behind.

The trap holds because from the inside it feels like responsibility.

Every problem in your life is gone by tomorrow morning. Money, work, health, the whole ledger. Cleared.

What do you do at 9am?

Most people have no answer. Not a sad one. Nothing at all.

That isn’t depression. It’s an empty coordinate. You’ve been navigating by what’s behind you, and when that clears, the direction clears with it.

Push further and it gets worse. Most of what you call your personality is the shape you took under pressure.

Remove the pressure and find out how much of that shape was you.

Musk: “There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity.”

Inspire is too soft for what he means. A reason that holds when nothing is wrong.

Scale that up and you get the century we’re in. A species with no frontier doesn’t go quiet. It turns inward and starts dividing what it already has.

Musk quotes Tsiolkovsky: “Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever.”

That line gets read as being about size. It isn’t.

A cradle isn’t defined by how small it is. It’s defined by the fact that everything inside it was put there by someone else. Warmth, food, safety, all provided. Nothing in a cradle was built by the one lying in it.

That’s the condition he’s naming. Not confinement. Dependence you stopped being able to see.

Musk: “It is time to go forth, become a starfaring civilization, out there among the stars, expand the scope and scale of human consciousness.”

For 13.8 billion years, matter did nothing but obey. Every star that burned before us burned with nothing in the room to see it.

Then a fraction of that matter folded into a shape that could ask why any of it was happening.

You are not a thing inside the universe. You’re the part of it that turned around and looked.

Musk: “I find that incredibly exciting. That makes me glad to be alive.”

The problems regenerate. They always have. That was never the question.

The question is whether one thing in your life exists that isn’t a response to something going wrong.

Survival was the prerequisite. It was never the point.

Everything in the cradle was put there by someone else. The physics. The planet. The body. The language you’re reading this in.

Leaving was never about distance.

It’s the first thing in that room you put there yourself.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just spent seventeen billion dollars to make every cell tower on Earth a relic.

Musk: “It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones.”

Not through towers. Not through cables. Not through any infrastructure on the ground.

Directly from orbit to the phone in your pocket.

For over a century, connectivity followed the same blueprint. Build a tower. Run a cable. Expand the network one piece of ground at a time.

Coverage went where the money was. Where the population density justified the investment.

Everywhere else got silence.

Four billion people still don’t have reliable internet.

Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because no one could justify building a tower where they live.

Connectivity was never a technology problem. It was a geography problem disguised as one.

Musk: “The phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.”

Two years. Then the phone in your hand connects straight to space.

No tower required. No carrier infrastructure between you and the signal.

The entire telecom industry was built on one assumption. That connectivity requires ground infrastructure.

Every carrier. Every contract. Every coverage map. All products of that assumption.

Starlink just bypassed it from orbit.

From orbit, every point on Earth is equidistant.

The word “remote” only exists because connectivity was built from the ground up.

From space, there is no remote. There is no coverage gap. There is no place on Earth harder to reach than any other.

The ground decides who gets connected based on where they are.

The sky doesn’t know the difference.

Human potential was always distributed evenly across the planet. Access to information never was.

The gap between those two facts is the greatest waste in human history.

We spent a century deciding who deserved access to information based on where they happened to be born.

Musk just made that question obsolete from 550 kilometers above the answer.

[I love Tesla 🔋🚀 @JC70769]

"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...

I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.

That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Charlie Kirk wanted blockchain technology applied to the federal government. Full transparency. Every dime of spending tracked in real time on a public ledger.

His framing was simple: "It is not the government's money. We are the sovereign. We earn the money and the government extracts it from us with our consent."

If that's the relationship, then taxpayers have a right to see where every dollar goes. Day by day. Department by department.

The technology already exists. Bitcoin proved a public, tamper-proof ledger works at global scale. Nobody can edit it after the fact. Nobody can hide a transaction.

Apply that same infrastructure to federal spending and waste doesn't survive long. Nobody overspends when the ledger has an audience.

The question was never whether we could do it. It's whether the people spending the money want you to see it.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk 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.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

CATHIE WOOD NAMED THE CONTRADICTION NOBODY WANTS TO TOUCH.

SHE COMPARED ELON MUSK TO THOMAS EDISON.

NOT AS PRAISE.

AS A PATTERN.

WOOD:

“I THINK HE’S THE THOMAS EDISON OF OUR AGE...

HE WANTS TO DO THE RIGHT THING TO TRANSFORM THE LOT OF MOST OF HUMANITY.”

THE MEDIA SEES A RECKLESS BILLIONAIRE SETTING FIRES.

WOOD SEES THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM BUILDING ANYTHING AT ALL.

THE GAP BETWEEN THOSE TWO READINGS TELLS YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT WHO CONTROLS THE NARRATIVE.

START WITH TESLA.

WOOD:

“TESLA WAS AN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVE...

WHICH I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ATTACKING HIS CARS...

THEY’VE FORGOTTEN.”

HE BUILT THE EXACT MACHINE ENVIRONMENTALISTS SPENT THIRTY YEARS BEGGING FOR.

HE DIDN’T LOBBY FOR IT.

HE DIDN’T WRITE A WHITE PAPER.

HE BUILT IT.

HE FORCED EVERY MAJOR AUTOMAKER ON EARTH TO ABANDON THE COMBUSTION ENGINE.

THEN THE SECOND HE WON...

THE SAME MOVEMENT MADE HIM THE ENEMY.

BECAUSE THE ESTABLISHMENT NEVER WANTED THE PROBLEM SOLVED.

THEY WANTED THE PROBLEM FUNDED.

AND THOSE ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.

A SOLVED PROBLEM KILLS THE COMMITTEE.

KILLS THE NONPROFIT.

KILLS THE CAREERS BUILT ON MANAGING THE CRISIS INSTEAD OF ENDING IT.

MUSK ENDED IT.

AND THEY HAVE NEVER FORGIVEN HIM.

SPACEX LOOKS LIKE AN ESCAPE HATCH IF YOU NEVER READ PAST THE HEADLINE.

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE PRESS COUNTS ON.

WOOD:

“WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT MATERIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES...

IS GOING TO HELP US HERE ON EARTH AS WELL.”

MARS WAS NEVER THE EXIT.

IT IS THE LAB.

BUILD UNDER CONDITIONS SO BRUTAL THAT EVERY BREAKTHROUGH CHANGES WHAT IS POSSIBLE BACK HOME.

YOU LEARN TO KEEP A HUMAN ALIVE IN A FROZEN, IRRADIATED VACUUM.

FIXING AN ENERGY GRID ON A TEMPERATE PLANET BECOMES ARITHMETIC.

HE IS NOT RUNNING FROM THE CRADLE.

HE IS STRESS-TESTING THE TECHNOLOGY THAT PRESERVES IT.

BUT THAT STORY DOESN’T SELL ADS.

DOESN’T MOVE POLLING NUMBERS.

SO THEY BURY IT UNDER HIT PIECES AND CONGRESSIONAL THEATER...

AND CALL IT JOURNALISM.

MOST PEOPLE WHO REACH HIS LEVEL STOP BUILDING...

AND START PROTECTING WHAT THEY HAVE.

THEY BUY SENATORS.

THEY BUY NEWSPAPERS.

THEY BUY SILENCE.

MUSK KEEPS PICKING THE HARDEST UNSOLVED PROBLEMS ON THE PLANET...

AND RUNNING STRAIGHT AT THEM.

THAT IS WHAT TERRIFIES THE ESTABLISHMENT.

NOT THAT HE MIGHT FAIL.

THAT HE MIGHT SUCCEED WITHOUT THEM.

WITHOUT THEIR FUNDING.

WITHOUT THEIR APPROVAL.

WITHOUT ANYTHING THEY CAN HOLD OVER HIS HEAD.

A MAN THEY CANNOT BUY...

IS A MAN THEY CANNOT CONTROL.

SO THEY DO THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE LEFT.

THEY SEND THE MEDIA AFTER HIM.

EVERY LEGACY OUTLET RUNS THE SAME PLAYBOOK.

STRIP THE CONTEXT.

CLIP THE QUOTE.

FRAME THE MOTIVE.

LET THE ALGORITHM DO THE REST.

IT HAS WORKED ON EVERY BUILDER BEFORE HIM.

IT WILL NOT WORK ON THIS ONE.

THEY WILL SPEND THEIR CAREERS TRYING TO TEAR HIM DOWN.

HE WILL SPEND HIS BUILDING THE THING THAT SAVES THEM ANYWAY.

THE STONES ALWAYS COME FROM INSIDE THE WALLS.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

ELON MUSK USED A JOKE TO PERFORM AN AUTOPSY ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.

TWO ECONOMISTS GO FOR A HIKE.

THEY FIND A PILE OF SH*T.

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 SH*T 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 SH*T 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 SH*T 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.

[Overton @overton_news]

This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC.

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character.

PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.”

“And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.”

“One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?”

“I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.”

“I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.”

“And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.”

“And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.”

“And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.”

“And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!”

@chamath

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

🚨Not one, but 2 Magnapinna squid! 🚨
The #doldrums team observed 2 elusive Magnapinna sp., commonly known as bigfin squid, at approximately 4,300 m (about 2.7 miles). Sightings of these animals are extremely rare — seeing two in one dive is extra exciting!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just told the highest-paid profession on earth it was never a skill. It was a workaround.

AI no longer needs programming languages at all. It writes machine code directly. Raw binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce.

No syntax. No compiler. No translator.

Musk: “You don’t even bother doing coding.”

Every language ever written. Every framework ever built. Every career spent mastering them.

All of it was humanity’s way of approximating what machines actually needed. We didn’t learn to speak to computers. We spent fifty years building a crutch because we couldn’t.

AI just made the crutch irrelevant.

Now add Neuralink. No keyboard. No screen. No interface.

Musk: “Imagination-to-software.”

Intention becomes execution. Nothing between what you imagine and what exists.

Humanity spent its entire history building tools to shrink the gap between mind and reality. Language. Writing. Mathematics. Code.

Every one was just a smaller bottleneck. AI doesn’t shrink the bottleneck. It removes the gap.

The entire framework of technical expertise just collapsed into one question. Can you think clearly.

Everyone else is debating how AI changes development. Musk already moved past the debate. He’s not optimizing the process. He’s dissolving the need for one.

The barrier between imagination and reality held for all of human history. It just fell.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just made the case that the smartest person in the room is now the most replaceable person on earth.

Huang: “The definition of smart is somebody who’s intelligent, solve problems, technical. But I find that that’s a commodity. And we’re about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest.”

The skill you built your entire identity around was the first thing the machine replicated.

Not the hardest part. The easiest.

Huang: “People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart. And their value is incredible. To be able to preempt problems before they show up, just because you feel the vibe.”

Huang: “That vibe came from a combination of data, analysis, first principle, life experience, wisdom, sensing other people.”

The vibe is not intuition. It is decades of failed bets, human friction, and first-principles thinking compressed into a single read no model can replicate.

You cannot prompt your way to it. You earn it by surviving things that had no instructions.

Huang: “I think long term the definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute, but human empathy and having the ability to infer the unspoken, around the corners, the unknowables.”

Every institution you ever passed through graded you on the one thing the machine now does for free.

The thing they never tested you on is the only thing that still matters.

Huang: “And that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.”

The SAT did not measure intelligence. It measured obedience to structure.

The future does not reward what you can solve inside a framework someone handed you. It rewards what you can see when no framework exists.

The machine did not replace human intelligence.

It revealed that what we spent a century calling intelligence was never intelligence at all.

The people who memorized the answers are about to work for the people who sensed the questions before anyone thought to ask.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jeff Bezos explained why every generation gets the future wrong in the exact same way.

He asked a room to imagine going back to 1920 and telling a farmer that “massage therapist” would be a real career.

Bezos: “They would not have believed you.”

A friend took it further.

Bezos: “Forget massage therapist, there are dog psychiatrists.”

He looked it up.

Bezos: “Sure enough, you can easily hire a psychiatrist for your dog.”

Nobody caught what just happened.

Every technological revolution in history has created more jobs than it destroyed.

Every single one. No exceptions.

And every single time, we panicked anyway.

Because the jobs being destroyed always have names.

The jobs being created never do.

That is not a footnote. That is the mechanism.

The human brain treats what it can name as real and what it can’t name as fantasy. No generation in history has ever overcome that instinct. We are not overcoming it now.

Right now AI fear has everything. Job titles. Timelines. Research papers. Congressional hearings.

AI opportunity has nothing. No names. No categories. No vocabulary.

Not because the opportunity is smaller.

Because it requires inventions nobody has built, inside industries that don’t exist, solving problems nobody has discovered.

A farmer in 1920 couldn’t imagine “social media strategist.”

Not because he lacked intelligence.

Because radio, television, personal computers, the internet, smartphones, social platforms, and the creator economy all had to exist first.

Seven inventions deep.

Every link in that chain had to be built before the job could even be a sentence.

The limitation was never imagination. It was infrastructure. You cannot think your way to a job that requires technology nobody has invented. The brain doesn’t fail here. Language does.

We are standing at the first link in a chain we can’t see the end of.

Making confident predictions about the last one.

The fear sounds credible because it’s specific. The opportunity sounds naive because it’s invisible.

But specificity is not accuracy. And invisibility is not absence.

The historical record is undefeated. Every “this time is different” has been wrong. Not most of the time. Every time.

The very fact that we’re afraid is the proof.

We only panic about technologies powerful enough to reshape everything. And technologies powerful enough to reshape everything have never once failed to create more than they destroyed.

The fear is not evidence the future is dark.

The fear is evidence the opportunity is so large we don’t have language for it yet.

The jobs AI creates will sound as absurd to us as “dog psychiatrist” would’ve sounded to a farmer in 1920.

Until someone’s running a waitlisted practice charging $300 an hour.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk told a room full of brilliant people they’re the easiest to replace.

And proved it in one sentence.

Musk: “The most important mistake I see smart people making is assuming that they’re smart.”

He’s not questioning your intelligence.

He’s warning you it’s what will bury you.

Not because it’s fake. Because you mistook having it for being it.

The moment intelligence becomes identity, it stops sharpening. It starts defending.

And a trait that only defends itself has a shelf life.

Kasparov. Greatest chess mind that ever lived. Deep Blue crushed him in 1997.

Nobody grieved. They reclassified. “Chess isn’t real intelligence.”

Language. Reasoning. Strategy. Every line crossed. Every line redrawn.

Musk: “We just keep moving the goalposts.”

That’s not critical thinking. That’s a species protecting its ego in real time.

And the people doing it the hardest are the ones most sure they’re above it.

Elon’s not warning you about machines.

He’s warning you about what you’ll become while pretending they don’t matter.

The smartest people alive aren’t being outperformed.

They’re being outlasted by the one thing they refuse to respect.

The machine doesn’t need to be smarter than you.

It just needs you to keep believing you’re smarter than it.

And your identity will make sure you do.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

A university degree used to have value back when the boomers were entering the workforce.

We made a huge mistake by telling everyone to go to college. The schools created dozens of worthless majors to appeal to everyone.

They devalued the concept of a "Bachelor's Degree".

Back when a small minority of people had a university degree, it had value. Most university degrees today are common in the workforce and don't translate into any marketable job skill.

[Forbes @Forbes]

Quote of the day. #qotd

[Andre L Jakubovicz @ajakubovicz]

@Handre Ayn Rand spoke the truth.
Her choice of words [under no uncertain terms] made everyone feel quite uncomfortable. Some for their lack of morality, others for their cowardice.

[J.B. White the RattlerGator @RattlerGator]

@Handre "The entrepreneur is not a parasite skimming off labor. He directs scarce resources toward their most urgent uses, and he eats the loss when he guesses wrong. No bureaucrat carries that risk."

There's that word -- risk.

Individual risk, burden, responsibility . . . and reward.

[Handre @Handre]

Ayn Rand's most important lesson: Production comes before distribution. You cannot divide a pie nobody baked.

Every politician inverts that order. They argue over who gets what slice, how to tax the baker, how to redistribute the flour, as if the loaf simply materialized like manna. Rand called this out for what it is. Wealth is created by specific people doing specific things: Hank Rearden smelting metal, John Galt building a motor. Take those people away and you're left with committees drafting memos about fairness while the lights go dark.

The entrepreneur is not a parasite skimming off labor. He directs scarce resources toward their most urgent uses, and he eats the loss when he guesses wrong. No bureaucrat carries that risk. This is what Ludwig von Mises spent his career proving in denser prose.

Rand's villains aren't cartoon capitalists. They're the moochers who demand the moral sanction of their victims: the industrialist who lobbies for a subsidy, the intellectual who calls envy "social justice." She hated the crony as much as the commissar.

[bodila @51bodila]

Li Lu thought "Buffett" was a cafeteria and accidentally walked into a Buffett lecture - then he became the only trader Charlie Munger ever trusted with $88 million

he researched 2 stocks right in this lecture in front of MBA students - both returned 7x

he made $312M in profit for Charlie Munger - then Munger personally called him "the Chinese Buffett"

survived Tiananmen Square - escaped China with nothing - couldn't speak English - accidentally heard Buffett speak at Columbia - started investing from nothing

"that light bulb went off - I figured I can do something in this business"

he showed the class a stock at $60 million with $320 million in assets - "so I put a shitload" - went up 7x

"all my employees never went to business school - I find it easier to train them "

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