Cullimore

CDP Certified design professional, creative solutions guy, and champion of good ideas. Kiwi born, Vancouver citizen and proud father.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Here’s Mark Carney’s illusion: he wants to keep Canadians in a state of fear and panic to distract from all of his costly failures at home.

The Carney Liberals have given us the worst food inflation, the worst household debt, the worst housing costs, and the only shrinking economy in the G7. He has not repealed a single anti-development law, approved a single pipeline, and housing construction is actually falling.

To top it all off, he’s doubled the deficit Justin Trudeau left behind.

These are all Liberal-made problems that Carney made worse.

And as for the U.S., Mark Carney’s talk of a rupture with the customer that buys two-thirds of our goods is not a plan. He has not negotiated a single new Free Trade Agreement with any country on earth.

The meetings, photo ops, and non-binding memoranda are all an illusion.

Mark Carney’s agenda is about enriching a small group of well-connected Liberal elites like him, who get corporate handouts of tax dollars and use tax havens to avoid paying the same bills they are charging you.

If we want to be affordable at home, safe at home, and strong at home we must make real change at home.

That’s why Conservatives are fighting for an end to wasteful Liberal spending. Let us cut corporate welfare, consultants, foreign aid, and handouts to fake refugees.

Unblock our resources.

Unleash our entrepreneurs.

Approve pipelines and major projects today.

Incentivize municipalities to build homes.

Cut the gas taxes on farmers, truckers, and steelmakers.

Stop the money-printing and inflationary deficits that drive up the cost of everything.

That’s the only way we will be strong at home and unbreakable abroad.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@AirCanada we are still waiting for our lost baggage to be delivered. Received no update in the app and your call line only has a prerecorded message. How do we get an update?

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@aircanada our flight to Vancouver arrived from Toronto and passengers have been waiting for -1hour luggage to arrive at the baggage claim. What’s the hold up, please?

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

Heard you’ve lost over 100 bags. Is this true?

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@Eddy_Elmer @CityofVancouver It’s very hit and miss. Though I have experienced many great agents who are kind, understanding and patient.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@CityofVancouver

Trying to submit reports to Van311 online and through the app with no success. It appears the map function is inoperable. The UX and reliability of online reporting is inconsistent and at times fails outright.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor Perhaps the right ideas but there is so much more to the challenges we face. How can the city consider “fixing” the dtes without the provincial and federal government stepping up to the plate?

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

The main hall of Alcobaca Cathedral in Portugal vs. the tall aspen trees in Colorado, US.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor Agreed that the scope is incredibly alarming and the situation is dire. Simply calling barrage a failure feels more like an attempt at scoring political points while ignoring the greater threats.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor And only one post. The city and vpd can only do so much without the support from the province and the judicial. Have you been calling on Eby and the province to do what was promised?

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor https://t.co/VLKnpMct8B

[Vancouver Police @VancouverPD]

VPD’s Task Force Barrage has seized more than 14 kilograms of illicit drugs destined for distribution in the Downtown Eastside, disrupting a violent criminal network and removing more than $2 million in illegal substances from the community.

“This neighbourhood continues to be the epicentre for serious crime, overdoses, and toxic drug deaths in our province – and that crisis is fueled by predatory drug dealers, gang members, and other criminals who profit off those whose life circumstances have brought them to the neighbourhood,” says Inspector Gary Hiar, commanding officer of Task Force Barrage.

“This is just a temporary disruption in the Downtown Eastside drug trade, and other criminal organizations are already moving in to fill the void created by this major drug seizure. That means our work is not done.”

Vancouver Police assembled Task Force Barrage in February to reduce violence in the Downtown Eastside, to disrupt criminal networks, and to improve safety for people who live in the neighbourhood by increasing the number of officers in the area and conducting targeted enforcement against violent offenders.

In April, Task Force Barrage initiated an investigation into a group of drug dealers that was believed to be trafficking illicit substances out of a building near East Hastings Street and Gore Avenue. On July 17, following a three-month investigation, Task Force Barrage executed a search warrant at 339 East Hastings Street and seized more than $2 million in drugs and cash, along with multiple weapons.

The seizure includes:

➡️$141,000 in Canadian and US currency
➡️5.5 kilograms of cocaine, including nearly 4 kilograms that was raw and uncut
➡️5.3 kilograms of crystal meth
➡️3.2 kilograms of raw and processed fentanyl
➡️1,594 pills, including methadone and Dilaudid

“This single investigation represents more than 190,000 single doses of illicit drugs taken off the streets, and more than $2 million in profit out of the hands of drug dealers in the Downtown Eastside,” adds Inspector Hiar. “That’s potentially thousands of overdoses prevented, and thousands of lives saved.”

Nineteen people were taken into custody when the search warrant was executed on July 17. They have been released pending completion of the investigation, when police expect criminal charges will be laid.

During the first five months of Task Force Barrage, Vancouver Police seized 1,145 weapons, recovered 127 real and imitation guns, submitted 492 reports to Crown counsel, and made 740 warrant arrests in the Downtown Eastside.

#TaskForceBarrage

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor Please stop disparaging and disrespecting the work that has been done. You must know the horrid conditions that we have had to live through falls at the feet of the provincial and previous civic leadership.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor https://t.co/Gj1guqd2DA

[Elenore Sturko @elenoresturko]

In 2022, David Eby pledged to take ownership of Vancouver's DTES.

More than 2 years later, deaths, crime & economic destruction have pushed the community to its breaking point.

Promise made. Promise broken.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor @tamarataggart Appreciate the response. I’ll dive into your platform details and give the interview a listen.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor @tamarataggart From a mayoral candidate who believes that a better way is possible, it’s on you to prove your worth. We expect you to speak to YOUR solutions. So what have you got for us? Hopefully not just complaints followed by silence…

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@kareemformayor @tamarataggart Sunrise isn’t necessarily closing. The business is up for sale. It’s easy to poke holes, solutions are what matters so please explain what you would do differently.

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@KahlonRav @Dave_Eby How many wood-soccer ball type trinkets will be acquired this time and at what cost to us?

[Cullimore @c_cullimore]

@tamarataggart I would hope your hot take is because you are intimately aware of the situation here, live here and are looking to improve the situation for us that have lived through the challenges imposed on us for over 20 years…