Erik Berte

Believer in free markets, realism, free expression, and intellectual honesty. Anti-authoritarian. Lifelong NYer. I don’t like eggs🥚. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Communism has killed millions

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Capitalism is a powerful force for good. It benefits everyone, especially those who lean in and help build the future.

But it’s under attack (again). Wealth taxes, price controls, government-run grocery stores, asset seizures. Fear is being used as a political lever and an excuse for control. I’ve seen this play out before, it leads nowhere good.

I lived in Buenos Aires in 2008 when the Argentine government seized $30B in private pensions to ‘protect’ citizens from the financial crisis. Then they froze access to the dollar and nationalized companies. Within a decade, inflation was over 50%. The elites had miraculously moved their money, leaving regular people to take the financial hit.

Politicians are selling collectivism out of the same playbook used by Argentina, Venezuela, and the former Soviet Union: promise protection, concentrate power, tighten the fist. And the costs fall on the poorest people in society who are unable to protect themselves.

Capitalism isn't perfect. But it’s far better than every alternative that’s been tried. Millions of people making independent decisions, with the free market rewarding the best ideas, will out-build any central planner.

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@neontaster Diet Coke is still king 👑

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@JeffDye 😂 omg

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@LizWolfeReason @nycexpatmom 100% valid

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@billybinion It’s kinda insane to reject something invented at the beginning of the 20th century!

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@garyleff Wonder if they could make something of marine terminal. Get a real restaurant and bar in there. And open a nice JetBlue lounge.

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@JacobHeaton96 Refund of monthly dues!

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@LBelle355 @NewDiscourses @ConceptualJames I’m wondering the same. He really knows his stuff!

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@ConceptualJames Straight out of Marcuse

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@TheCheekyTaurus 100% Principles > Populism. Otherwise what do we have left?

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@NeverTr74704466 Great read on the topic https://t.co/7w4LQtK8Zm

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@NeverTr74704466 Probably the Met. I think it’s the biggest.

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@buttonslives I got unconventional right 🤔

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Partisans warn of doom if their agenda isn’t enacted, but their expedient is what threatens the republic.

https://t.co/rGRNlZiVSh

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Whenever I see US.MNT I can’t help but think

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@PONY_Official Where are you?