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[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

Mira como esa gente se cae y al mismo tiempo un edificio entero se derrumba frente a ellos, y el gobierno de Venezuela da cifras ridículas. Desde el minuto cero debieron decir la verdad para que el mundo entero ayude.
La mentira costo más vidas aun.

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

The clearest and most complete disassembling of Marx, socialism, and communism I've ever read. Gold stars for that man.

Followed,

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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

California banned dog sales in pet stores.

The goal: Stop puppy mills. Did it work?

No. Instead, online pet scams went UP.

Puppy prohibition is a failure.

Stossel TV's president @mikedricci discovered NY's version when he tried to buy a dog:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

A police department agreed to pay $3M after black applicants did worse on their hiring test.

“This is ridiculous!” says @HMDatMI.

Then why did they settle?

Because of a woke idea that’s rewritten America’s standards:

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is insane

“Food stamp spending was just $4.5 billion in December of 2019

By December 2022, thanks to a massive expansion by the Biden Admin, food stamp spending was $11 billion per month”

$11 billion PER MONTH feeding mainly illegals Democrats dumped into America

“That's a lot of new artificially subsidized demand. And guess what? In that same period, grocery prices went up.
By some estimates, food prices go up by 1% for every 12% increase in food stamp spending.

In this case, we're looking at a percentage increase of nearly 150%. So you could do the math on that. It's more than a 10% increase in your grocery bill every single month.

What this means is that if you're a working American and you're not on food stamps, meaning you are a functional citizen who is taking care of yourself and your own family, you are a functional contributing citizen.

What that means is you are actually paying against your will for other people's groceries twice. You're paying when the government takes the money out of your paycheck And then you're paying again every time you buy groceries for yourself.”

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

VERY IMPORTANT: Everybody stop what you’re doing and watch this.

Jesse Watters just delivered his most important and powerful monologue ever.

He blew the lid off the trans violence epidemic, the media’s cover-up, and how Democratic leaders created it:

"The media is bad at pattern recognition. Just two years ago another trans 20-something walked into a Christian school in Nashville with a rifle and shot 3 kids and 3 adults. They buried the manifesto and locked down the case."

“We've seen trans shootings in Colorado and in Maryland. They even shot up an ice facility in Texas. And it seems like half of Antifa is trans. A couple of they/thems just got popped for firebombing Teslas.”

“Statistically, the trans population has been prone to violence. That's not villainizing, that's reality.”

“The left is weaponizing trans kids and turning them into culture warriors. And they've been turned loose against the church, schools, and Trump. The trans clan has a militant wing, and it's out for blood. They're taking lives, defiling churches, and freaking everybody out.”

“Tim Walz failed. Our leaders keep failing us. They failed us. Now there's a growing trans epidemic and they won't admit it. They created a crisis and then lie about it and blame you for not being compassionate. But their fake compassion is getting people killed.”

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

The likely NYC mayor wants a $30 minimum wage.

Activists cheer.

Don't they know what happened when California raised the fast-food wage minimum to $20?

18,000 jobs vanished, while other states ADDED fast-food jobs.

Here's Part 2 of Zohran Mamdani's Bad Ideas:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

The Supreme Court gave Trump the green light to keep dismantling the Department of Education.

Good. The federal department is largely useless.

It doesn’t educate a single child.

Here’s why we don’t need it:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

When unions “win big" (as the media put it), workers LOSE.

Why?

Because the cost goes into the prices and unionized businesses atrophy. They hire fewer union workers, or lay them off, so both the company, and union workers lose.

Here are a few examples:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

UPS recently cut 20,000 jobs, Yellow Corp went bankrupt.

Why? Economist @MissLiyaP of @Mercatus it’s the unions’ fault:

“Union deals are delivering short-run sugar highs with long-run hangovers.”

Union workers lose…

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

“I spent nights sending complaints to get @BenShapiro’s posts blocked,” says one student in @CoddlingMovie.

Here’s more about ridiculous things she learned in college:

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

"Save the polar bears! They’re going extinct!"

People donate money to deceitful groups like the Environmental Defense Fund because they believe it’s true.

But it’s not true.

The polar bear population is going UP, not down.

That and more climate warming myths here:

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

104% tariffs on China are not enough. I'm advocating 400%. I do business with China. They don't play by the rules. They've been in the WTO for decades. They have never abided by any of the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades. They cheat, they steal, they steal IP. I can't litigate in their courts. They take product, technology, they steal it, they manufacture it and sell it back here.

Nobody has taken on China yet, not the Europeans, no administration for decades. As someone who actually does business there, I've had enough. I speak for millions of Americans who have IP that have been stolen by the Chinese. 400% tariffs tomorrow morning!

[Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29]

This is the best explanation I’ve seen for President Trump’s tariffs.

This man understands it. 🔥🔥

[General™️ @TheGeneral_0]

This gentleman pretty much sums everything up.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

For years, Europe’s economy was about the size of America’s. Not today.

Today, the U.S. is 50% RICHER--despite the EU having 100 million MORE people.

What changed?

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Harriet Hagerman on the Department of Education. Just listen. 👇

"The DOE has a budget of 280 billion dollars a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our children. (It shows too)"

"So where does the other 220 billion go?"

"It goes to bureaucracy. It goes to a consultant. It then goes back to the DEMOCRATS."

It's money laundering. Period.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

A study from the Berkeley Research Group points out the high cost of California’s $20 fast food minimum wage.

It caused prices to rise 14.5%… and cost 10,700 jobs.

I warned about this last year: