Aaron

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@robbysoave Why save the planet if there are no people, for the fish?

An environmentalist will admit that “sure it doesn’t matter if this single coke can is recycled or thrown away, but if everyone recycled, the world will be a better place.”

And then decide not to have kids.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex It’s some type of way to force suffering/challenges upon yourself when life is too easy and unfulfilling.

And then you end up with environmentalists against having children. Like what are we even saving the earth for if there won’t be people left? For the squirrels?

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex All that said, if I had a platform to focus on improving our immigration policies, I’m 1000x more concerned with the huge volume of low-skilled illegal and chain immigration than the relatively small amount of high-skilled immigration.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex It’s interesting, for these h1b workers, our laws maybe aren’t that different from laws in gulf countries for their guest workers, besides the fact that we have a pathway to permanent residency.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex @avidseries If you could go back in time and not allow high-skilled immigration, would you do that? It would mean no Google, no Tesla/SpaceX, no Einstein, no Intel, no Stripe, and 100 other companies. Do you think the benefits to the US have been worth the downsides?

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex And conservatives get mad at government control of their lives, which is why they have such a visceral reaction to the idea of global warming even existing.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex The right answer

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@nickkokonas @DavidAstinWalsh It's a money losing business in an industry that seems like it's going to be replaced with much cheaper tooling, and its market cap is still 10x 2025 revenue (it just used to be worse). Agreed with your earlier point that many other SAAS haven't had their reckoning yet but will

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@nickkokonas @DavidAstinWalsh Figma is still trading at 10x 2025 revenue. Feels like it’s not priced in yet?

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@nickkokonas @DavidAstinWalsh If AI is going to be a massive cost saving/innovation driving tech, isn’t it interesting that the most replaceable SAAS stocks haven’t crashed?

One side of the market is priced as if AI is going to change the world. The other is priced as if it won’t.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex It’s not really that, it’s that using Claude Opus 4.6 is a far different product than GPT 4o. Because the capabilities are advancing at non-normal speeds, “I just tried it last year and it sucks” is not a fair statement.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@bgurley @MikeZaccardi @grok Low-skilled immigration.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@nickkokonas @IlliniJen It was a campaign promise by a politician, so I'd argue the incentive was perfectly understood.

But ya... hard to see how this is ever politically unwound. Tips likely to become a bigger part of all of our lives.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@nickkokonas @IlliniJen Interesting though how the “no tax on tips” now makes wage income less attractive than taxed tip income.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@xwanyex @extradeadjcb The real reason for land value tax comes from economists. Because it’s inelastic, you can tax it highly without the deadweight loss. If you tax labor, you get less labor. If you tax cigarettes, you get less cigarettes. But if you tax land, you still have the same land.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@kpottermn Wonder if award tickets will be “base” too…

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@ICannot_Enough They still exist in India! Photo from a mall in Pune, India where a guy sat there pressing the buttons.

[Aaron @AaronFromChi]

@ArtemisConsort Then there’s of course the fact that absolute reduction in crashes is not actually what people want. They want the feeling of safety. It’s way scarier knowing your car may at any second swerve into the oncoming lane. Just like how terrorism is scarier than the flu.