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[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

America, land of the Costco millionaires and the Ivy League grads who think they're working class

[Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT @lone_rides]

"Did you hear? ICE killed another American!"

"A citizen?"

"Well, no. But he had been here for 35 years."

"So he wasn't supposed to be here. Still, that's not a death sentence. What happened?"

"ICE shot him!"

"An ICE agent just walked up to him and shot him?"

"Well, no. He hit an ICE vehicle and started to run down the ICE agent."

"So he tried to kill an ICE agent."

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Socialists imagine a class struggle. In their made-up fantasy the CEO is in competition with low level workers, the wealthy entrepreneur is stealing from the underpaid nurse.

In reality, workers do not compete vertically they compete horizontally.

Entrepreneurs compete with entrepreneurs. Investors outbid each other. CEOs are benchmarked against other CEOs. Nurses are hired from a pool of nurses. Etc.

The CEOs pay has no correlation to the entry level workers. The Football star on £300K a week isn’t linked to the person selling drinks in the stadium. A biotech entrepreneur raising VC capital isn’t paid relative to a cleaner.

What is linked is the demand and supply dynamic of each role.

If a company places an ad for a qualified truck driver and 150 people apply for the role, then the company knows it does not need to increase wages for that role. If the company has an open role for months, it is forced to look at the compensation package.

Same for a CEO. A board representing shareholders would like to hire a CEO for a lot less if they could. Their dream scenario would be to hire a CEO who brings in institutional investors, attracts top executives, drives innovation and growth, keeps margins steady and is a good public face for the business even under pressure. It turns out there aren’t a lot of these people looking for work and if you want one you have to pay more than other companies are offering.

The class struggle isn’t vertical it’s horizontal. CEOs are in competition with CEOs. Retail workers are in competition with retail workers. Demand and supply dynamics set the price.

Sure you can say that a CEO want’s profitability and would like wages to be lower BUT it’s not up to the CEO - demand and supply tension sets the price of workers. An Airline like RyanAir would like free pilots if they could get them but they can’t… so they pay the market rate.

The reason incomes are rising at the top and falling at the bottom is not class warfare. It’s technology and globalisation.

Technology makes basic jobs simple, remote or fully automated. At the same time tech makes executive roles more leveraged, more important and more valuable.

A CEO used to run a smaller organisation. Today a CEO who’s 2% better on a $5B company is generating $100M more. Seems sensible to try and pay a few million to get $100M.

Globalisation has put workers from all over the world in completion with each other - downward pressure on wages. Globalisation has given CEOs more market opportunities to explore - upside opportunity to unlock.

The rich are not very interested in buying houses that poor people own. The poor are not buying up the homes the rich want. They are separate groups living separate lives. Try finding the genuinely rich people whose strategy is to hoard normal residential homes - it barely exists as a thing. About 85% of landlords are people who own 1-4 properties. Super-landlords (100+ properties) are 0.2% of landlords and own a tiny fraction of the 30M homes in the UK… and they’re heavily taxed.

Class warfare isn’t real. It’s an imagined war in the minds of socialists.

Demand and supply dynamics are real. To the degree it is measured in class, it’s a horizontal competition not a vertical one.

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

PALANTIR CTO:

“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”

“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...

WITH NO RAIL.”

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

How much did Californians lose because of this stupid commie’s one tweet?

Billions in tax revenue, trillions in economic development, in perpetuity.

I’m sure she felt like such a bawss when she did it. Communists are too dumb to ever see 5 minutes into the future.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

just want to remind you one more time that significantly lowering the cost of housing would solve, overnight, almost every single problem in the country

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

How to destroy a city.

Win an election by promising half the tenants frozen rents paid for by increased rents on the rest of the city’s tenants who often live in the same buildings with their subsidized neighbors. Pit neighbor against neighbor.

Create a city hostile to developers of apartments eliminating the potential for new supply.

Freeze rents so it is cheaper not to rent the apartment than to spend the capital required to renovate and rent it, shrinking the supply further.

Place all of the increased burden on the unregulated, market-rate tenants and the owners of buildings with no market rate apartments that can’t raise rents forcing them into foreclosure and the buildings into disrepair.

That’s all you need to do.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

the abolition of private property in exchange for endless funding of the government's third world fraud schemes is not worthy of debate, actually

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

This guy hears Charlie Kirk was a racist.

He heard it over & over so much that he did something smart.

He sat down & LISTENED to his words.

It was then that he realized he was LIED to.

Kirk wasn't a racist AT ALL.

He was a GREAT American.

[HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△ @HotSotin]

"capitalism is evil"

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

Today we celebrate the most radical idea in human history: that your life belongs to you. Not to a king, not to a class, not to the collective. To you.

That is what 250 years ago actually meant. The Declaration didn't promise to hand you things. It recognized a right, to your own life, your own liberty, your own pursuit of happiness, and it built a nation to protect that right from the one thing that had always crushed it: other men with power.

This is why the immigrant comes. Not for a handout, but for the freedom to rise by his own effort and keep what he makes. Every producer who ever built something here, from the shop owner to the man who lands rockets, is proof the idea works.

Mamdani gave a speech this week calling that inheritance a story of oppression, and quietly folding the successful into his list of villains. A footnote. Envy always is. It has never built a country, only spent down the ones freedom built.

So celebrate the real thing today. Not the mob's resentment, but the founders' gift: a nation where the individual is sovereign, and no man is born owing his life to another.

Happy Independence Day.

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Happy 4th of July all! Reject doomerism, reject cynicism, America was built by people who believed tomorrow could be better than today and worked hard making it so. Love your country, love your fellow citizens, stay relentlessly optimistic. That's the proper American spirit

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

The American flag existed long before Donald Trump, and it’ll still be here long after him.

If your patriotism rises and falls based on who’s in the White House, maybe your allegiance is to politics—not the country.

The flag represents the nation and its people, not whichever administration happens to be in power.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

God bless America. 🇺🇸

[CoFounders Nik @CoFoundersNik]

Stunning lack of self-awareness.

A socialist mayor lecturing America on the evils of capitalism...

His father makes $350k/year teaching African History and Colonialism. No other country on earth pays academics that kind of money for that subject.

Thanks capitalism.

His mother came to Harvard at 19 on a scholarship and became a millionaire making documentaries. You dont become a millionaire documentarian under socialism.

Thanks capitalism.

America is NOT exceptional BECAUSE "we are richer, stronger, more powerful" than everyone else.

No.

We are richer, stronger and more powerful BECAUSE we are exceptional.

Our improbable origin.
Our ideological uniqueness.
Our capitalistic system.

We built a system that protects the right to debate, argue, compete, and fail without fear of jail or worse.

That's why we've been the NUMBER ONE immigrant destination on earth for 180 years!

Since 2000, we have taken in almost 30 million immigrants. There is no close 2nd.

If America is so rigged and divided between the "oligarchs and the oppressed" then why do immigrants (just 15% of the population) come here and start over 30% of new businesses?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The United States is 3 human lifetimes old.

That’s it. In those short years we invented the light bulb, the telephone, the airplane, the transistor and the internet. We turned a few wooded colonies into the most powerful nation in the history of the world.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je suis Français.

Ma boîte est américaine.

Et aujourd'hui, 4 juillet, jour où l'Amérique fête ses 250 ans, je veux dire les choses simplement : j'aime les États-Unis.

Pas par posture. Par lucidité.

Parce que vous avez gardé ce que l'Occident a produit de meilleur, et que trop d'Européens ont oublié.
Vous respectez la création de valeur. Chez vous, réussir n'est pas un péché à expier mais une preuve qu'on a rendu service au monde. Votre rapport à l'argent est sain : ce n'est pas une honte, c'est de l'énergie qu'on remet en mouvement.

Vous êtes des joueurs, pas des victimes. Quand quelque chose casse, vous demandez « comment on répare » pas « qui est le coupable ». L'Europe, elle, a fait de la plainte un sport national et de la victimisation une identité. C'est notre vraie maladie.

Vous incarnez encore les valeurs de l'Occident. Le dépassement de soi. La liberté individuelle. Et qu'on l'oublie jamais le fun. Un peuple qui ne sait plus jouer, rêver grand et rire de lui-même est un peuple qui a déjà commencé à mourir.

Vous avez bâti les meilleures technologies des 40 dernières années. Internet, le mobile, le cloud, le spatial, l'IA. Pendant que d'autres écrivaient des rapports sur l'innovation, vous la livriez.
Maintenant, deux conseils. De quelqu'un qui vous aime.

Méfiez-vous du poison communiste qui s'infiltre chez vous. Il ne porte plus l'uniforme rouge. Il a muté. Décroissance, wokisme, globalisme : mille visages, une seule logique culpabiliser le fort, punir le créateur, dissoudre l'individu dans la masse. Ne le laissez pas entrer par la porte de derrière au nom de la vertu.

Continuez d'accélérer.

Vous n'êtes pas qu'un pays, vous êtes le dernier grand accélérateur de la civilisation. Créez les conditions pour que l'Occident finisse par se réunir autour de trois piliers : la propriété, la liberté individuelle, le capitalisme. Vous en êtes le moteur. Mais n'oubliez jamais que l'Europe reste votre socle culturel vos racines sont ici.

Alors joyeux anniversaire, l'Amérique. Restez joueurs. Restez libres. Restez debout.

Au travail. 🇺🇸

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A German soccer fan who flew to the USA but was fearful about coming because of news about criminals and people being mean...

...breaks down into TEARS, live on air saying he has FALLEN IN LOVE with America after a random man named "Bob" in Boston gave him a ride home after he was stuck at a game with no way back to his hotel

The German soccer fan's name is Sebastian, he said after meeting Bob, he extended his entire trip.

He said leaving America will hurt worse than watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup.

"I fall in love with America. I'm sorry, it's just so emotional. Americans are not rude... if we are together, we can achieve great things."

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Nick Lavery @thenicklavery]

MAGICAL
🇺🇸

[Tweets from Zach Weinberg @zachweinberg]

We're already here. Billionaire tax became $50m tax in 3 weeks. Soon it will be anyone with $1m in home equity.

Why? Because you MUST tax the middle class to raise any real amount of money to cover the spending Ro and others want to spend.

It's always a middle class tax.