Dylan Bathurst

React-native dev @fold_app #christian

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

Live look at Binance's "Funds are SAFU" policy in action.

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@DorianDevelops Clearly from the photo you can see that we ascend to a higher plain of existence at 40

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders.

And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? No matter the history. No matter the context. Even the ones from wealthy families, who went to the best schools, who were dealt every good card. Always the same trap.

I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's a mechanism. And a mechanism can be taken apart, piece by piece.

A. The observation: everything the state touches becomes unaffordable.

Look at economist Mark Perry's famous chart, the one people call "the chart of the century." It tracks US prices since 2000.

At the top, what explodes: hospital services, college tuition, textbooks, childcare, housing. Increases of +100%, +150%, up to +250%, far above general inflation.

At the bottom, what collapses: TVs, software, phones, toys, clothing. A TV today costs a fraction of what it did in 2000, for an infinitely better product.

Look at what separates the two groups. It isn't technology. It isn't complexity. It's one variable: how much the state is involved.

At the top, sectors that are subsidized, regulated, shielded from competition, where the state funds demand and blocks supply. At the bottom, sectors where companies fight every single morning to serve you better and cheaper.

B. The mechanism: why it's systematic.

When the state subsidizes demand without freeing supply, prices rise. Every time. Guaranteed student loans, and universities raise tuition. Housing aid plus blocked building permits, and rents skyrocket. Administered healthcare, and bureaucracy eats the budget before it ever reaches the patient.

In France it's even more vicious, because the price doesn't disappear: it hides. You never see the hospital bill, you pay it through payroll contributions. You never see the cost of school, you pay it through taxes. Public spending at 57% of GDP, one of the heaviest tax burdens in the world, more than €3.4 trillion in debt. And the result? Overflowing ERs, falling PISA scores, young people who can't afford to live in the city where they work.

The market didn't fail in these sectors. It was never allowed in.

C. Suffering demands a culprit.

A 22-year-old lives all of this in their bones. They can't find a place to live. Their degree either buries them in debt or opens no doors. The future feels blocked. That suffering is real, and I don't deny it for a second.

But human beings can't stand suffering without a culprit. They need a face. A scapegoat.

And this is where everything is decided: who taught them how to read the world?

D. Whoever tells the story picks the villain.

Schools are public. Universities are public. Culture runs on grants. Film goes through funding committees. Public broadcasting shapes the narratives. The people handing down the interpretive framework are, overwhelmingly, paid by the very system that creates the problem.

Do you really think that system is going to name itself as the culprit?

No. It names the capitalist. The boss. The landlord. "The rich." The multinational. The commercial West. Same role, same casting, every time.

E. One lens, a thousand causes.

And this brings me back to that flag. A generation taught to read every situation through a single lens, oppressor on one side, rich, Western, capitalist, oppressed on the other, will apply that lens everywhere. To housing. To climate. To conflicts on the other side of the world. The cause changes, the lens stays. That's why the trap is always the same: it's not the cause that draws them in, it's the way of thinking that was installed in them.

F. The perfect inversion.

Here's the irony. Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second.

It's like blaming the firefighter for the fire because you saw him at the scene.

G. The ballot box confirms it.

In the US, a few weeks out from the midterms, a large share of urban young voters is getting ready to vote Democrat for more state, more spending, more regulation. New York elected a self-described socialist mayor, carried by young voters, on promises of rent freezes and city-run grocery stores. Rent freezes, the policy that has made housing scarcer everywhere it's been tried. The cure that worsens the disease.

In France, it's the same play in two acts. Part of the youth votes for the radical left, which promises more state. Another part votes for the center, which promises to "manage" the state well, and has dug the debt deeper than ever. Two different ballots, one shared assumption: the problem is the market, the solution is the state.

H. The way out.

These young people aren't stupid. They're right to be angry. They're just aiming at the wrong target.

The day they understand that their rent, their tuition and their hospital are expensive precisely because the state runs them, their anger will change direction. They'll stop protesting against those who create. They'll start protesting against those who capture.

That day, the greatest intellectual scam of our time will be over.

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@GustavoDelaRoca @arkavx 💯

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@GustavoDelaRoca @arkavx Had to visualize this. I don’t know man, I might watch this movie. 😆

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

KYC photo scammers just unlocked a new revenue stream. 😬

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio announces Americans will be able to apply for passports ENTIRELY ONLINE instead of spending HOURS and frustration doing it in-person

"No printing forms, no drug store hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman...and REAL-TIME STATUS, [tracking] estimated delivery date."

"By the end of 2027, our goal is for most Americans to be able to apply for a passport or passport card on America .gov."

He just PERSONALLY confirmed it: America .gov will let you do the entire process online

This is massively overdue! The page is Super Intelligence-powered. EVERY nation is going to copy it 🇺🇸

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@ODELLXYZ Sadly I think the next GitHub will be git hosted by Claude and OpenAI because it works so seamlessly with your IDE/local/cloud agents. It will be very user friendly but a major step away from “distributed”

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@matteopelleg @cluborange Chat found it through here. https://t.co/AsGchrXNWe

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

Me when a @bootbarn opens near my house.

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@ecurrencyhodler 10 years later she’ll be mad at you and then bring this up. 🤣🤣🤣

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@enggirlfriend Other than the physical parts I’m hoping they have a software “lefty flip” feature that can invert the screens. Sucks that the cameras would be on the bottom but this world was not for us anyways.

[Engineer Girlfriend @enggirlfriend]

wait so are left handed people just completely fucked for the iphone duo??? 😆

[FOLD BITCOIN @fold_app]

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[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@thekitze This is what my kids look like when watching a cartoon.

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@GolanBinder They’re smaller IRL than I thought but look pretty sweet

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

Giving Cybercabs Texas license plates in CA has to be a big 🖕to the CA politicians who told Elon to GTFO. Message received

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@matteopelleg @ChatGPT @figma I’m guessing @Copenhaguen83 approves of them. 😂 One small thing I would change is to make the border radius of the screenshots higher. It feels like android screenshots at the moment.

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@FinXRob Both solid choices. Check out @fold_app as well. Similar feature set but more consumer rewards/utility focus.

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@TFTC21 @americanhodl8 @americanhodl8 you lived in Vegas in 2014/15? Why didn't you ever come to downtown during the #vegastech days? We had a nice little bitcoin community hanging out there building things at a coworking space.

[Dylan Bathurst @dylanbathurst]

@juliusilg @coreyh @Borthwick @close5 So many things. Overall great experience at eBay. Biggest thing I would have done was pivot harder when FB marketplace came out. Local delivery of large items was a big user pain and FB wouldn't do it. I tried to get it done, but eBay couldn't stomach it.