CS1

Early-stage tech investor, random muser and occasional negotiator.

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If she wasn’t working for Elon Gwynne Shotwell would be hailed as an incredible success story and the most powerful woman in aerospace.

Instead it’s radio silence from the media

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@Timodc @Jason No. Try again.

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@GavinNewsom Just stop. You are now embarrassing yourself.

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@SenWarren What have you accomplished in the last 20 years? How much economic value have you created? I will wait.

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@elonmusk Impressive. Most impressive.

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First of all, your math is completely off. Laughably off. Take all of Elon’s wealth just for fun. You would fund the govt for less than 2 months. You have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. If you had ever run a business, you would understand this. And furthermore, Elon’s money is his to give. Not yours to take. If he wants to donate it, then great. If he wants to build additional businesses or fund his projects, that’s his prerogative. The macro point is it’s his choice.

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@nettermike It’s the current level for most. Their last frontier to master. But no, most have not reached the apex yet.

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This is the correct perspective. She sees it clearly. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, there are 5 levels. Most in the West are on level 5. Or frankly level 6. When you don’t have any real problems, you invent problems to worry about and it appears those manufactured problems become all-consuming. Hard-wired for scarcity, our species doesn’t seem to be capable of just appreciating the abundance and ease of modern life.

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@pink68867645 @vrexec Unfortunately there is a lot of dead weight in medium to larger scale companies today. AI will expose and change this. In smaller companies you are correct - it’s very difficult (not impossible though) to have a bullshit job.

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@TheDiegoTrombon @MercuriusFilius It’s not a scam if you go to a good school and major in a real subject. If you violate either of those, it’s a waste of money.

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@AngelInvestGuy @MercuriusFilius This is correct.

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@linkz4258 @SFOTugga77 @CapoLaw @DarrigoMelanie This is incorrect.

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@pbreit @micsolana @elonmusk @naval How do we know this?

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@FrankLuntz It’s a poorly conceived system, with a horrible IRR and no adjustment to current longevity. It should be means tested AND start 3-6 years later than today.

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@Eric_Schmitt They are free to leave.

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Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

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@Elex_Michaelson @nithyavraman @spencerpratt 3 weeks?

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@chamath As the son of a US high school English teacher, I can safely say that this is true and appalling.

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@AskYoshik @zerohedge OpenAI could absolutely be the yahoo of AI era.

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@NancyMace Bad policy. They should absolutely pay.