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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Capitalism has a win condition. Socialism does not.

Here's why, explained so simply a 10-year-old could get it. It starts with a book written in 1944 by an Austrian economist named Friedrich Hayek: The Road to Serfdom.

Imagine a classroom of 30 kids. One day the teacher says: "From now on, I decide what everyone eats for lunch, which games you play at recess, and who sits next to whom. It's fairer that way."

First problem: the teacher doesn't know what you like. You hate carrots. Your friend is allergic to peanuts. Lucas wants to play football, Emma wants to draw. 30 kids, 30 different wishes. Nobody can know all of that, not even the smartest teacher on Earth. Hayek called this the knowledge problem. The information needed to run an economy is scattered across millions of heads, and it can't be gathered in one office.

Second problem: the kids start fighting. "Why does he get the window seat?" "Why football again?" Before, everyone just chose for themselves. Now every choice is a fight, because every choice is made for everyone.

Third problem: the class can't agree on a plan, so someone says "we need one person in charge who just decides." This is Hayek's key insight. Planning doesn't fail because planners are evil. A plan needs everyone to agree on the same goals, and free people never agree on everything. So the plan needs force to work.

Fourth problem, and it's the scariest one: who wants that job? The kind kid doesn't want it, because the kind kid doesn't want to force 29 people to eat carrots. The job attracts the one who likes giving orders and doesn't mind punishing those who disobey. Hayek wrote a whole chapter on this, called "Why the Worst Get on Top." It doesn't happen by accident. It happens by selection.

Here's the trap. When the person who controls your lunch also controls your job, your home, your shop and your newspaper, they control your whole life. You can't say no, because there's nowhere else to go. Controlling the economy doesn't mean controlling one part of life. It means controlling the means to every goal you have.

That's the road to serfdom. Nobody votes for a dictator. People vote for "someone should fix this," then for "give them more power to fix it," and one day they wake up with no one left to say no to.

The USSR, Maoist China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. These are different countries with different cultures and languages, and the story has the same ending every time. When a script produces the same ending every time, it isn't bad luck. It's the script.

Now capitalism. Back to the classroom. Instead of one teacher deciding everything, every kid can trade. You give me your carrots, I give you my apple, and we both walk away happier. Nobody needs to know what everyone wants, because prices do that job. A price is a message telling millions of strangers what's scarce and what's wanted, with no one in charge.

That's the win condition. In capitalism, you get rich by making something other people freely choose to buy, so your success depends on serving others. In a planned system, you get ahead by pleasing whoever holds power. One rewards usefulness. The other rewards obedience.

And this isn't theory. Two centuries ago, almost every human being was extremely poor. In 1990, about 38% of humanity still lived in extreme poverty. Today it's under 10%. More than a billion people escaped it in a single generation. It happened when China, India, Vietnam and South Korea opened up to markets, trade and private enterprise. The largest reduction in poverty in human history came from letting people trade.

So why do so many people hate capitalism?

Because what they hate usually isn't capitalism.

They hate the bank that got bailed out with their taxes while they lost their house. They hate the giant company that writes the regulations so no startup can compete with it. They hate rent they can't afford because building new homes has been made nearly impossible. They hate the lobbyist who gets a subsidy while the small business owner drowns in paperwork.

Look closely at each one, and you'll find a state handing out privileges. A bailout is not the market. The market would have let the bank fail. A regulation written by incumbents is not competition. It's protection from competition. None of this is capitalism. It's cronyism, which is what happens when businesses stop competing for customers and start competing for politicians.

People see the symptom and blame the wrong cause. They say "capitalism failed" and ask for more state. That gives more power to the same people who created the problem, and it puts us right back on Hayek's road.

The answer to bad capitalism isn't less freedom. It's less privilege. That means fewer bailouts, fewer protected incumbents, fewer permits, and more people allowed to build, compete and trade.

Capitalism has a win condition: make things people want. Socialism has an end condition: someone has to be in charge. And history keeps showing us who ends up in that chair.

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

LA ESTAFA DE LAS BANDERAS NOBLES.

El socialismo tiene un mecanismo perverso que repite sistemáticamente en toda América Latina: SE APROPIA DE CAUSAS NOBLES PARA JUSTIFICAR CURROS INDEFENDIBLES.

Primero elige una causa moralmente atendible. Los discapacitados, los jubilados, la universidad pública. Después, en nombre de esa causa, exige cada vez más gasto público, crea estructuras burocráticas gigantescas y administra cajas multimillonarias sin controles ni transparencia.

¿Y qué pasa cuando alguien llega y se anima a preguntar dónde está la plata? ¿Cuando alguien pretende auditar esas cajas?

APARECE EL CHANTAJE MORAL.

No muestran los números. No rinden cuentas. No explican nada. Te acusan de estar en contra de los discapacitados, de los jubilados o de la educación.

Porque el objetivo no es discutir cómo ayudar a quienes mas lo necesitan. EL OBJETIVO ES QUE NADIE SE ATREVA A CUESTIONAR SU NEGOCIO.

Y cuando finalmente se abren las cajas, aparece lo de siempre: intermediarios, estructuras militantes, privilegios y curros financiados con el dinero de los pagadores de impuestos.

USAN A LOS POBRES COMO ESCUDO MORAL PARA DEFENDER LOS PRIVILEGIOS DE LA CASTA.

Lo vimos en la Argentina y lo vemos en cada país donde el socialismo logró echar sus garras.

Siempre el mismo mecanismo. Siempre el mismo chantaje. Siempre los mismos beneficiarios. Y siempre las mismas víctimas: los que verdaderamente necesitan ayuda y los argentinos de bien que pagan la fiesta.

NO DEFIENDEN DERECHOS. DEFIENDEN CAJAS.

QUE SE ABRAN TODAS LAS CUENTAS. QUE SE PUBLIQUE CADA CONTRATO. QUE CADA RESPONSABLE RINDA CUENTAS HASTA DEL ÚLTIMO PESO. LOS ARGENTINOS MERECEN SABER EN QUÉ SE GASTA SU DINERO.

VLLC!

[Vitruvius Republic 🇺🇸 @realMAG1775]

Listen to her. She is talking about France after the same open-border policy our leaders pushed here. The people she is warning about are already in the United States. It is not a question of if they act out. It is when. You can Bet on it

[Kike @exbecerra]

@JMilei Grande el #FenomenoBarrial 💪🏻

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@AlecCardenas Aquí en USA fui a un restaurant donde trabajaban así. Pero era un restaurant chino 😆

[Lucia Etxebarria @LaEtxebarria]

ESTE ES EL PROGRAMA DE AfD:
- plazo máximo para políticos profesionales. No podrán estar más de ocho años viviendo del Estado
- Europa de estados soberanos, o una salida si eso no es posible
- fin del euro como moneda común
- control total de fronteras
- el asilo se tramita fuera de la UE
- remigracion a criminales de personas sin derechos de residencia
- bajadas de impuestos
- energía : energía nuclear, carbón, reparaciones en Nord Stream, no más impuesto al CO₂, no más prohibición de motores de combustión
- política pro-natalista
- promoción de la cultura alemana, protección del idioma alemán
- expulsión de musulmanes que rechazan el ordenamiento jurídico alemán. No a los tribunales de la sharia
- refuerzo de la policía
- tolerancia cero con criminales extranjeros y con mafias.
- fin de los delitos de odio. Máxima libertad de expresión.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Constance Fisher drowned her three children in a bathtub in 1954.

Mental hospital. Declared better. Released.
Husband stayed. They had three more kids.
She drowned those three too.

Same house. Same bathtub. Same excuse. Six dead children because a system treated a child killer like a patient who just needed time.

That is the whole argument. Not “was she sad.” Not “did she hear voices.” What happens after you let them out, and who pays for it the second time.

Lindsay Clancy strangled her three kids. People are already writing her a sympathy card and calling prison cruel. Cruel is three little bodies. Cruel is doing it once and getting a path back to freedom. Cruel is pretending history didn’t already run this experiment and lose six kids.

Mental illness can explain how someone gets there. It does not give you a free murder. It does not entitle you to more children. And it does not require the rest of us to wait around and see if the next round dies too.

If you kill your kids, you don’t get to be a mother again. You don’t get a soft landing and a second family. Life without parole. Lock the door. Stop experimenting on other people’s children and making excuses.

Convict her. Convict those who harm children. Period.

[Kike @exbecerra]

@Riley_Gaines_ Pure evil

[Kike @exbecerra]

@conmomma Can’t wait to see how they coexist in the locker room

[Kike @exbecerra]

@elonmusk Big Beautiful Building 💪🏻

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

My full speech at the @OxfordUnion debating whether the west is right to be suspicious of Islam.

I needed a security team to attend and we were spat at, bullied and heckled by a baying mob.

But I will not give up on free speech.

I will not submit.

[Kike @exbecerra]

@JohnfKennedy608

[mrinank @MrinankSharma]

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned.

Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

On te vend depuis 40 ans que sans « sensibilité de gauche », les gens crèvent de faim.

C’est exactement l’inverse de ce que disent les chiffres.

1990 : 2,3 milliards d’êtres humains en pauvreté extrême. 38 % de l’humanité.
2025 : 808 millions. Environ 10 %.

1,5 milliard de personnes sorties de la misère absolue en 35 ans.
La plus grande réduction de souffrance humaine de toute l’histoire de l’espèce.

Qui a fait ça ?

Pas l’aide internationale.
Pas les ONG.
Pas les programmes de redistribution.
Pas la sensibilité de gauche.

Le marché.
L’ouverture commerciale.
La Chine de Deng qui abandonne le maoïsme en 1978.
L’Inde qui libéralise en 1991.
Le Vietnam, l’Indonésie, le Bangladesh qui s’ouvrent au capitalisme.

Les seuls endroits où l’extrême pauvreté a explosé sur la même période ?
Le Venezuela socialiste (de 27 % à plus de 80 % en dix ans, inflation à 130 000 %, un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos).
La Corée du Nord.
Cuba.
Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.

La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres.
Elle les fabrique.

Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que même ses « perdants » américains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviétique.
Un pauvre américain a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, la clim et internet.
Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.

Et le « social américain est un désastre » reste une légende française.
PIB par habitant US : 80 000 $.
France : 45 000 $.
Un Mississippien (l’État le plus pauvre des États-Unis) a un revenu médian supérieur au Français moyen.

Dans un système libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres.
Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.

Être de gauche en 2026 face à ces données, ce n’est plus de la sensibilité.
C’est préférer la posture morale aux résultats.

La compassion sans résultats, ça s’appelle de la vanité.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

MIC DROP!🎤

Elon: “The fact, as you pointed out, is that a quarter billion people follow me. I think a lot more people actually like me than don’t, and I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize.”

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

"Why does an actor's race matter?!"

Ok… now imagine it was this:

[Kike @exbecerra]

@topstriker @Cobratate 🤣🤣🤣

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