Espy

Mechanical Engineer turned Software Engineer. Lover of science and tech. Developer of software. Maker of hardware. Father and Husband. Student of life.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."

— Thomas Sowell

[Espy @EngineeringEspy]

@linusgsebastian @TherealkingBigB @SMthegamer1 @Pink_Pab_ @WPG1993 @iFixit @LinusTech

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Canraptor ☄️ @canraptor_]

Congrats to Larry Page, he’s about to become the world’s richest billionaire this friday!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@NUnl ASML should be treasured and supported. It is arguably the greatest company in Europe.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There's a startup in the current YC batch that built an MRI machine in 101 days.

[TSA @TSA]

In an effort to avoid unexpected airport meet & greets please verify your cat’s location is not inside your suitcase before zipping it. Thanks.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Mounting a security camera and pointing it at the knobs on the stove so I have verifiable proof that we did turn the burners off

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

As little as five years ago, I publicly stated that self driving cars were not in the imminent future. I was dead wrong about that. I am now a happy owner of a cyber truck, and I let it drive me everywhere I go. I trust it’s tactical skill more than I trust my own. Of course I still supervise it, but it sees more than I do, and its reaction time is much better. All I can offer it is my human ability to be far more strategic than it is.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JeffBezos @zerohedge Ad astra per aspera

[Espy @EngineeringEspy]

@shenetworks 💯

[Naval @naval]

Software went from desktop-first to mobile-first, now going to agent-first.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@AlaskaBird__ @rittmeister_11 That was Trump and Vance and Bangino and Patel and Bondi who promised you those files over a year ago. I was the one who delivered them. In those files you’ll find the names Jes Staley, Leslie Wexner, Leon Black, and others that the President and his AG refuse to prosecute.

[Big Tech Alert @BigTechAlert]

🚫 @elonmusk is no longer following @ianmiles

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

lol @Rainmaker1973 has single-handedly sapped the life out of billions of views on this platform.

And directly led actual content creators like me away from experimenting more with video content on X

99.999% of the content he posts is stolen, and he blocks all who call it out

[Big Tech Alert @BigTechAlert]

🚫 @elonmusk is no longer following @MarioNawfal

[Naval @naval]

The new competition isn’t Humans vs AI. It’s Humans with AI vs everyone else.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Lots of people have been complaining about Massimo stealing our content and not giving credit so I find it odd that the straw that broke the camel's back was stolen from another account known for reposting content without giving credit.