Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.
Cette phrase change tout.
L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?
Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.
Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.
Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.
Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.
L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.
Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.
Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.
Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.
Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.
La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.
Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.
Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.
La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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Bishop Athanasius Schneider speaks very clearly: "They are not refugees, they are invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy historical culture in Europe.” They should have made him Pope.
🚨 TRUMP’S NUCLEAR OPTION: DEFUND THE POPE’S $2 BILLION MIGRANT MONEY MACHINE! 💥
If I were President Trump, I’d sign an executive order DAY ONE to **CUT OFF ALL federal funding** to Catholic charities pushing migrant care programs.
The Catholic Church isn’t a charity — it’s a multi-BILLION-dollar global empire. The Pope loves lecturing America on immigration, so let him fund it with Vatican cash instead of American taxpayers.
They’ve been **raking in over $2 BILLION in federal grants to Catholic Charities branches during the Biden border crisis alone** while preaching open borders. Enough. The Church is already the richest Christian denomination on Earth — time they handled their own “compassion” without sucking on the government teat.
No more taxpayer money for political activism disguised as charity.
Figure it out, Pope.🇺🇸
#Trump2024 #SecureTheBorder #CutTheWaste #AmericaFirst #DefundTheMoneyMachine
Pope Leo grew up in Chicago.
I grew up in Lebanon.
I wasn't forced to leave Lebanon because there was peaceful coexistence.
I was forced to leave Lebanon because Islamic terrorists blew up my home and killed many of the people I grew up with.
I wish the Pope would talk to the persecuted Lebanese before making ignorant statements about countries he knows very little about.
🇮🇩 BREAKING: Indonesia just played the game perfectly. Signed a security deal with the US, then flew to Moscow and locked in oil, gas, and LPG supplies from Russia.
That's not choosing sides. That's choosing Indonesia.
Energy from one superpower, security from another. While Europe burns itself to punish Russia, Jakarta is quietly securing its own interests from both.
The rest of the Global South is watching and taking notes.
In my opinion, the Pope is an elected official. There is no mention of a Pope anywhere in the Bible. He is essentially the elected leader of the Catholic church, and that's fine.
But don't assign him spiritual importance he does not possess beyond that.
What do you think?
So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
All organically, I'm sure.
I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne.
This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports.
But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity.
Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm.
The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.
OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing.
But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.
The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.
I am a practicing Catholic. Have been all my life, waaaayyyy over half a century. But I’ve had it with these damn popes getting political!! I couldn’t stand Pope Francis. 😤 We catholics are taught to believe that the pope is divinely chosen. That he is infallible. But I’m sorry, this one and the last one are hardly infallible. 😒 I had hopes for Leo but I had also heard that he was a liberal early on. Already, I can see he’s no better than Francis. Please, stop making Catholics feel like we have to choose.
Because I’ll choose Jesus always, but you are NOT Jesus!! I will NOT change my stance on my president! I will support him, however, the one thing I CAN control? How much money I put in the kitty every week. 💰 And right now, I’m not putting ANY money in that’s intended for Rome. Until the holy father stays out of our politics, he gets not one. red. cent. from me! His job is to lead people to Christ like a shepherd, not to “pontificate” on @POTUS@DonaldTrump! @Pontifex
Your Holiness, let me put this as politely as I can: you don’t know what you are talking about.
If you want to write on a subject—horse racing, say, or musical composition—it’s a good idea to know something about it before putting pen to paper or, these days, hitting the computer keyboard. The same goes for economics. You don’t have to know anything about economics, but if you don’t, you shouldn’t pontificate on the subject. What you have written gives evidence of a soft heart, which is a good thing, but soft hearts, if they are not to be destructive, should be closely associated with hard heads. Your post is an embarrassment to those of us who are Catholic and who respect and venerate the office you hold.
You wrote: "Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty."
Yes, and that’s not good. However, almost all of the human race was immersed in extreme poverty for most of human history. The last two hundred years have seen the mass of people lifted out of poverty in a way that has never been achievable or achieved before. [see Hans Rosling’s Factfulness for some real information: [https://t.co/bNMsjvOPpi]
You wrote: "Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few."
If wealthy people have obtained their wealth by honest means, issues of proportionality are irrelevant. They have provided goods or services that people are willing to pay for and they have been rewarded accordingly. What they do with that wealth is a moral issue for them and not a legal or political matter for anyone else.
You wrote: “...the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.” [italics added]
This is a classic example of the zero-sum fallacy. The solution to poverty is to make poor people un-poor, not to make wealthy people un-wealthy. [see https://t.co/R1vgH4jUdJ] What you call 'equitable distribution' presumes that wealth is something that just sits there, waiting to be distributed. But wealth is something that is produced, and its production already determines its ‘distribution’.
Your Holiness, there is much work to be done to sort out the problems in the Church. May I respectfully suggest that you direct your attention to the resolution of these problems.
What the actual hell are you talking about????!!!
You promised families would save $2,500 a year on premiums.
Individual market premiums increased 105% in just the first four years.
Over the life of your law, premiums are up over 220%
"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
You said that over and over.
You knew it wasn't true. And when 7 million people had their plans canceled, you just... moved on. No accountability.
And the fraud.
Let's talk about the fraud.
6.4 million Americans were improperly enrolled in enhanced tax credits...
...costing taxpayers $27 BILLION!!!!!
Another 1.6 million were simultaneously collecting both Medicaid AND ACA subsidies!!!!
You didn't make healthcare affordable.
You made lying about healthcare affordability look easy.
And apparently that's still free...
Gua Baru Tahu Sering Nonton Short Video Bisa Bikin Fungsi Otak Menurun
Awalnya gua kira nonton short video di HP itu cuma buang-buang waktu. Tapi setelah baca jurnal ini, gua baru tau efeknya bisa berbahaya untuk otak.
Penelitian dari Tiongkok ini meneliti 48 orang, terus dilihat kebiasaan mereka nonton short video, lalu dicek fungsi atensi & kontrol diri, didukung juga dengan pemeriksaan EEG.
Hasilnya bikin gua cukup bikin kaget antara lain:
-Semakin sering nonton short video, semakin turun kemampuan otak buat kontrol diri
-Fungsi eksekutif otak, terutama atensi, juga menurun
Short video itu juga berasosiasi dengan overstimulasi dengan karakteristik cepat, singkat, dan penuh reward instan. Lama-lama otak jadi kebiasaan butuh stimulus cepat, sehingga bikin fokus jangka panjang makin susah.
Yang menarik dari studi ini adalah:
Semakin tinggi tingkat kecanduan (adiksi) untuk menonton short video di smartphone, berasosiasi dengan semakin rendah tingkat pengendalian diri (self control)
KESIMPULAN:
Kebiasaan nonton short video ternyata berkaitan dengan penurunan self-control dan turunnya fungsi eksekutif otak, terutama kemampuan atensi.