Alex Chavez

Design n things • Staff Product Designer @acorns •

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

Kicking off the new year with a site refresh. More projects coming soon.
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[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

Who’s at config I know? Come say 👋

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

@jeremiahjw Sooo pumped for this 🔥

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

See ya next week at Config 👋

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

We can still keep a majority of our capitalistic ways while heavily taxing billionaires and trillionaires. It doesn’t have to be either or.

The ultra wealthy would just have to accept they will have ~less~ (and they’d still be ultra rich).

[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.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

This isn’t a success story.
This is the story of a system designed to allow the obscenely wealthy and powerful exploit taxpayers and the working class to transfer wealth to themselves, while the majority of Americans struggle to afford basic necessities.

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

Friends, what's the difference? Is one better than the other? What's cool nowadays?

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

@falcone_design 🤙🏽

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

How do I get back the old Spotify app icon

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

@scspeier The only response to this that makes sense

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

No one tells you half of product work is picking up the broken pieces from a million dumb decisions made before you were hired.

[James @ScriptsByJames]

JD Vance saying he’s the coolest VP is perfect. bc it conveys why they all do what they do.

it’s why elon buys Twitter. It’s why trump wants gold medals and the presidency. it’s why kash patel’s in the locker room.

they’re fucking losers. desperate for power & to be loved.

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

We’re in a dictatorship. Send the asteroid.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

This Violates Freedom of Speech

JUST IN 🇺🇸: The Department of Homeland Security has sent legal requests to Google, Reddit, Meta, and Discord for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and identifying data of accounts that track and criticize ICE.

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

White hats with darker color bills are the new signifier for dudes who make golf, gym, and finance their personality.

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

@brandonmakes Tbh that might be better than the current state of things

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

Can we get a better Apple Music desktop interface this year? Jfc

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

@jeremiahjw 100%

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

Font gurus, I come to you in need of identifying what typeface this is

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

@RealSkyHartman Symptoms include ahh logo

[Alex Chavez @itsalexchavez]

Super pumped to be promoted to Acorns’ first Staff Product Designer! 🌳