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[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

I believe $SOL is going to outperform both $BTC and $ETH based on $SOLBTC and $SOLETH charts

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

Across the rich western world, birth rates have collapsed below replacement.

The political class has an answer ready, and it points outward.

The foreigner is taking your country, your jobs, your future.

When the reality is that the system failed the population to the extent that procreation unaffordable, unsustainable and outright undesirable.

The system is sterilizing the Wests future.

Housing was financialised into an asset class, so a home became a speculative instrument instead of a place to raise a family.

Wages decoupled from productivity for two generations, so a single income no longer builds a household.

Childcare, education and healthcare were turned into debt-loaded markets that price young couples out of a second child, then a first.

None of this was done by migrants.

It was done by capital optimising for yield, and by governments that protected asset prices over family formation.

The result is a population that cannot reproduce itself because reproduction has been made economically irrational.

The genius of blaming the outsider is that it sends anger sideways and downward, never upward.

A worker furious at the immigrant next to him is a worker not asking why his rent doubled while his pay stalled. The demographic panic is not a defence of the nation. It is a narrative that shields the exact interests that hollowed it out.

As long as the foreigner is the story, the financialization of housing and the suppression of wages continue completely unexamined, which deepens the precarity that suppresses birth rates in the first place.

And this newfound racism only guarantees the collapse it claims to prevent.

An ageing society has only two demographic inputs. It can produce more children or it can import more workers.

Nativism attacks the second lever while doing absolutely nothing to repair the first.

It removes the one input still functioning and offers nothing in its place.

The maths is merciless. Fewer workers must support more retirees, pension and health systems strain, the tax base shrinks, and the economy that was supposed to be saved by exclusion instead starves.

The same societies that demonize migrants are the ones whose labour markets, care sectors and innovation pipelines now depend on them.

So you build a country that needs the outsider to function and hates the outsider on principle,

a contradiction that cannot hold.

When it breaks, the state does not turn outward.

It turns inward.

Surveillance expands, austerity bites, and the machinery of control built for the border gets pointed at citizens.

The decline gets repackaged as renewal, and the people sold the lie keep voting for the thing that is eating them.

Understand that this racism framing is the trap, not the truth. It is an identity construct that keeps the exploited fighting each other while the structure that drained them stays invisible.

The honest question was never how to keep others out.

It was why a wealthy civilisation made it impossible for its own people to afford the future.

That’s the real question.

The ones screaming about demographic doom are not protecting anyone.

They are guarding the machine that caused it, and the louder the scapegoating gets, the faster the whole thing comes apart.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

And Operation Warpspeed finished the job.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

[Mr. Anderson @Truecrypto]

“The bottom is in.”

“No it’s not.”

Still one of the dumbest arguments in crypto.

Traders do not get paid for calling the final bottom. They get paid for trading the swings in between.

BTC went:

60k to 72k
72k to 63k
63k to 74k
74k to 65k
65k to 76k
76k to 65k
65k to 82k
82k to 59k
59k to 67k
and now 64k

Those are massive moves. If you missed all of that, the problem is not that you failed to identify the final bottom.

The problem is that you are not trading what is actually happening. Real traders do not need the final answer.

They need the level. They need the reaction.

Did price accept?
Reject?
Reclaim?
Fail?

That is the job.

Bullish at support and bearish if the level breaks is not inconsistency.

It is having a plan.

Price first.

Ego last.

[Brando @TraderBrando]

@TylerDurden This is the good stuff!

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Most people have no idea how much this changes the world.

The MOU will be signed.

A deal will follow, with plenty of drama in between.

But the world order has already changed.

Israel will not be able to stop it because the centres of power that matter have already decided the direction of travel.

The bond market is signalling that the deal will hold.

Most still assume it will fail and that the future will look much like the past.

Follow the money, not the headlines.

[Brando @TraderBrando]

@AlboMP @Keir_Starmer Pair of pricks!

[Brando @TraderBrando]

@TylerDurden Guten Morgan

[Mayne @Tradermayne]

You can placebo effect your life into a better place by being perpetually optimistic.

Assume things will always work out, speak in affirmations and think positives thoughts.

Your life will change.

Good things will happen, better people will come into your life, opportunities will become more abundant.

Your perspective is your reality.

[Mr. Anderson @Truecrypto]

A country run by banks will always be in debt

Healthcare run by Big Pharma will never cure disease

A state run by war will never know peace

A nation run by media will never know the truth

[Brando @TraderBrando]

@TylerDurden Awesome game!

[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

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[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

AI is going to make almost everything cheaper to produce. Whether that makes you richer is a separate question, and the technology has nothing to do with the answer.

A model that does a junior analyst's job for the price of electricity, a robot that runs three shifts and never files overtime: aggregate enough of that and the cost of making things falls toward the cost of the compute and energy behind it.

For two centuries, productivity made ordinary people richer through one channel, and the channel was labor. The factory got more productive, it still needed workers to run it, and that need is what let them bargain a share back as wages. The worker's share was never a gift. It was the price the owner paid for an input he couldn't get any other way.

AI removes the need for the input, and once the system does the work without a human in the loop, the wage that used to flow to him stays with the owner as margin.

This isn't speculative. Labor's share of national income has been falling for roughly four decades while capital's share climbed, driven by earlier automation.

AI doesn't start that trend but it will certainly finish it, by automating the last input the owner still paid a person for. And the surplus pools narrowly, because the inputs are already owned by a short list. Frontier AI needs advanced chips, compute clusters bigger than most national budgets, industrial energy, and proprietary data, and every one of those sits with a handful of firms.

Asking whether capital will wall off the abundance behind regulation is the wrong question. Regulation is rarely a brake on people who can afford lobbyists. It's a moat.

Safety rules and licensing raise the cost of entry for the competitor who would undercut you, and you pull the ladder up behind you and call it safety. Every company that has aggressively pursued AI will equally voice concern and advocate for the industry to slow down in the name of "safety" to create a moat for themselves.

There is a genuine fight inside the ownership class. The firms building AI want to cut as much labor as possible, because every wage eliminated is margin kept.

But the wider economy runs on consumers, and consumers are workers spending wages, so cut labor fast enough and the customer disappears along with the worker, and the cheap abundant output sits unsold for anyone with income to buy it.

That contradiction forces a response, because you can't run an economy of infinite cheap supply with no one solvent enough to absorb it.

The answer being floated around is a universal basic income. Strip the label off and it's a subsistence transfer sized to keep demand alive and the population quiet without touching who owns what, which is just a floor, not the stake the word dividend implies.

A basic income is probably coming, and probably better than destitution, and it is still a dole dressed as a dividend.

Will citizens get richer? In aggregate, yes. National wealth rises and you'll be shown headline numbers that look like broad enrichment, but the median citizen is a different measurement, and the median is where people actually live.

Own the assets and AI is the largest concentration of ownership in the history of capital. Own only your labor and you get cheaper goods bought with a collapsing or state-provided income, holding no claim on the surplus and nothing left to withhold.

There is a second twist the consumption story hides: AI makes produced goods cheaper, the things you use and discard, and does nothing for owned assets, as the surplus recycles into housing, land, and equity. Your daily life gets cheaper to run while a real stake in the system drifts further out of reach every year.

The one place this structure genuinely differs I think, is China, where the state owns its champions instead of being owned by them, which leaves it a redistribution lever the captured Western state does not have.

Whether China uses it for broad provision or party-elite concentration is open.

The AI machine can produce enough for everyone. The question was always whether the people who own it have any reason to share past the minimum that keeps the rest of us buying and obedient.

[Brando @TraderBrando]

@Polymarket Jobs must be spinning like MF in that grave right now

[Brando @TraderBrando]

@KillaXBT Thanks for sharing your progress, whatever the way it goes

[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

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[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

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[Mind Essentials @Mind_Essentials]

Life is not the same for everyone. Be grateful.