Ben Chestnut

Co-founder and former CEO of @Mailchimp. Father, husband, designerd, mountain biker and student of Objectivism 🇺🇸

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@praneshbuilds @diegosevenseven @ATLCWorker I was wrong to say “sociopaths.” I should have said “psychopaths” because they’re more consciously manipulative.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@diegosevenseven @ATLCWorker If “oppression” is the lens you view the world through, then of *course* people who are more successful are “the ruling class.” Your only hope is for a ruler who will steal–I mean “redistribute” the things you want from them, so you don’t have to work for it.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@praneshbuilds @diegosevenseven @ATLCWorker Sorry, I just employed 1,000 people to build a product that helped 10M+ businesses around the world and along the way paid $3B+ in taxes to the govt. Go ask *them* if they used it on rivers and roads.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

Socialism will require a ruling class, as it always has in history. Capitalists want minimal gov’t to allow citizens to live free, with dignity, create jobs, and produce the abundance of food that you dream about. Sociopaths/socialists take this stuff for granted and want government to forcibly take from those who make.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Any startups with bad news they’ve been holding on to… now is the time

[Yaron Brook @yaronbrook]

Ultimately, it's the only eliminator of poverty...

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@arctictony @BaltimorePeace @ashleymayer I don’t get it. We’re just normal men…we’re just innocent men

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@arctictony @ashleymayer Geez, what was the prompt to render an Asian man in plaid like that? I bet it took forever to run.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@arctictony @ashleymayer 😂 Up next on Hallmark TV!

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

“In order to get elected” by voters who think the govt is there to solve their problems. And this is also something Schiff laments (below). Agree it’s a vicious circle. But it’s created by the govt being given too much power to meddle with the economy (thus necessitating businesses to lobby). I hate all the cronyism too, ftr.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The big problem in American politics is that voters expect the government to solve their problems. Our country was founded on the principle that the people should be left alone to solve their own problems. When government is empowered to solve problems, it creates them instead.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

If insurance providers can’t discern who is responsible enough to insure, they will just raise prices for everyone across the board. Smaller providers will leave the state, or go out of business. Remaining large providers will have less competition, and raise prices. Some deal may be worked out for the govt to subsidize the insurance companies to keep prices low, but that just means taxes go up. Govt will try to tax the highest earners, who will simply leave, so everyone else will get taxed more.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@ScanticAntiques @PeterSchiff Schiff speaks against corporate cronyism all the time. It does take two to tango, though: they can’t do it without politicians.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

The big problem in American politics is that voters expect the government to solve their problems. Our country was founded on the principle that the people should be left alone to solve their own problems. When government is empowered to solve problems, it creates them instead.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

“The poor kids had ambition, because they wanted to climb out of poverty. The rich kids lacked that ambition - they didn’t *need* anything, really. And they didn’t feel like they could achieve enough to make their parents happy, either. So they were attracted to the ideas of socialism, because that was something that gave them a sense of purpose, a sense of virtue, and that “extracting from those with ability” was something they knew how to achieve.” - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@bscholl @PTrubey @farzyness @profgalloway I’d buy his shares.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

No party can solve the affordability crisis. Prices rise due to soaring government spending that exceeds the growth of tax revenue. We pay the difference with inflation. Higher prices are a tax to finance spending. Since neither party will cut spending, that tax will keep rising.

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

Lots of great replies. I’m reminded of this quote:

“You take technology — and its magnificent contributions to your life — for granted, almost as if it were a fact of nature, which will always be there. But it is not and will not.”

https://t.co/Tr54Mmnfxz

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Name one time a billionaire has lowered your bills

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@humrashid @robwalling 😂

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@robwalling Wait that sounds sketchy

[Ben Chestnut @benchestnut]

@robwalling VibeChimp