Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.
Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.
They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.
They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.
But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.
Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”
That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.
Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.
The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.
Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.
Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.
The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.
This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.
AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.
It just solves the problem.
And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.
The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.
AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.
So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.
What they will never say is what it actually threatens.
The illusion that activity equals progress.
The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.
The machines are not coming for your purpose.
They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.
Lo de @diego_ibanezc es impúdico.
Tenía llaves de la casa de Alberto Larraín y lo negó.
Ahora se pasa de viernes a lunes en Buenos Aires, celebrando goles de Argentina con una ejecutiva de la minera BHP, para luego volver al Senado.
Es un caso de estudio de trepamiento social.
Bill Clinton: “A los palestinos se les ofreció un Estado en toda Cisjordania, con Jerusalén Este como su capital. Israel aceptó, pero los palestinos se negaron. No les importaba una patria para los palestinos. Lo único que querían era matar israelíes”.
Bill Clinton: “Me maté intentando darles un Estado a los palestinos. Tenía un acuerdo que rechazaron que les habría dado toda Gaza y el 97% de Cisjordania. Lo que sea. Lo rechazaron todo. Sólo querían matar judíos.”
Los palestinos nunca quisieron la paz.
@nico_grau Grau trata de defender que no dejó el fisco sin caja.
Quiroz es muy claro en decir que al cierre del 31 de diciembre de 2025, el saldo era de 40 MM USD, un 1% de lo normal.
Sin contar que sacaron plata de ENAP, de Corfo, de Codelco, del fondo de reservas y con un cobre muy alto
Totalmente merecido @JMilei nunca me voy a olvidar cuando viniste a Chile en plena época de la oscuridad a recordarnos el gran país que teníamos y que hoy recuperamos.
Qué pena lo q se viene para Chile, un gobierno de ultraderecha q de seguro impulsará leyes de impunidad a los pacos, aprobará el TPP-11, salvará las Isapres y las AFP, no condonará el CAE, regalará el litio al yerno de Pinochet y militarizará el Wallmapu durante todo su periodo.