Brice Pierson

test tube baby for the Military Industrial Complex, Idiot Savant. Ya need a blue check for a follow back. 🙂

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@ClifLewis3 Happy birthday, man! 🎉

[Uncle Clif @ClifLewis3]

You simple can’t make sense of it!!

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@davidellison Just remember....woke means broke! 😄

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@compliantvc @BLSmith2112 Dork😆

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@JLa3x8 @SpaceX Damn....and people call me retarded....😆

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@dogwoodblooms Born in Rose Hill 🖐️😄

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

How do you pronounce Chinquapin?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In 7 days, the first Starship launch to orbit will be carrying Starlink V3 satellites intended for operational use

[SpaceX @SpaceX8qxq]

🚀🇺🇸

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

"Everyone is going to be different. I think that's the beautiful thing. It's not one thing to be successful with your money. There's always going to be people who have been where you're at that can help you." 🌟

We're back at a local farm for the second episode of Beyond Basketball with Sophie Cunningham presented by Yrefy, as she shares her story from growing up on the farm to growing her financial future 👩‍🌾

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@MisterChilidog @ClifLewis3 Yes 👊😎

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@ClifLewis3 @SneedTroy1169 😆

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Oh damn! 🤣

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@ClifLewis3 We I was younger... I wasted so much time constantly running around defending myself and didn't even realize it. Once I became enlightened to that truth I self corrected and started experiencing a tremendous amount of freedom. 😁

[Uncle Clif @ClifLewis3]

I will always remember.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@Kimberlyvrn She's a GILF, now. 😆

[Brice Pierson @brice955]

@everlauric @EricLDaugh 😆