Jake Fernandes

[iza @izamamaa]

“nobody coming to save you also implies

no one is coming to stop you”

[WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER  @blacktwiterthrd]

nobody coming to save you also implies
no one is coming to stop you

[Dr. Sudhir Mehta @sudhirmehtapune]

Wishing you success @sanjeevsanyal in enacting this “common sense” law.. Here is hoping that one day soon , we all get liberated to focus on what actually matters .. Make India competitive rather than continue fighting the demons of a socialist past ..

[barkha dutt @BDUTT]

This is a searing and beautiful piece of writing. Gave me pause and a lot to think about today. Not sure if the author - an IPS officer is on X - but thank you for this https://t.co/gVmF9CRBS8

[Jake Fernandes @Jake_fernandes_]

important

[Manuj Jindal @manujjindalIAS]

How to study current affairs for prelims?

A thread..

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : d��crochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Jake Fernandes @Jake_fernandes_]

good effort, appreciated!!

[Nimisha Mehta @halfburntcookie]

I recently discovered the “Everything Is Everything” podcast by @amitvarma & @ajay_shah and I loved it so much that I felt like we needed a book companion for all those incredible recommendations!

So here it is: https://t.co/3XgSyoAlaa

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name is Bant Singh.

He is a farmer and folk singer from Jhabhar village in Mansa district, Punjab. He had been singing since he was ten years old.

In 2000 his daughter was studying in Class 9 when three men gang raped her. The panchayat told him to settle it quietly. He was offered ten lakh rupees and three acres of land to drop the case.

He refused. He filed a police complaint. He went to court. In 2004 all three men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The village did not forgive him.

On January 5 2006 he was cycling home through wheat fields after campaigning for a labour rally. Seven men ambushed him with iron rods and axes. He lost both arms and his left leg.

He was moved from Mansa to Patiala to PGI Chandigarh where doctors operated for hours to save his life.

When he regained consciousness he asked for his harmonium.

He said they cut my arms thinking they would silence me. They were wrong.

All seven attackers were eventually convicted. He kept performing at rallies. He kept singing.

He still sings today.

Follow for real stories about people India must never forget.

[M_Vidyasagar @stellensatz]

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[Jason Fitzgerald @JasonFitz1]

This is gold if you're a middle distance runner!

[Syed Akbaruddin @AkbaruddinIndia]

India’s foreign policy today is:
Not about alignment,but exposure.✍

[Shaurya Mishra @shauryabjym]

America 🇺🇸 fix India 🇮🇳 thinking of borrowing 😔😔

[Iñigo San Millán @doctorinigo]

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[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

In the zero hour today raised the issue of judicial over reach in the case of banning Professor Michel Danino and two academics from any role receiving public funds for including a chapter on judicial corruption in NCERT Class 8 textbooks

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Why are some Indian journalists tweeting like IDF handles? There's a cooking gas shortage in India. People are panic-buying fuel. In my city, long queues at petrol pumps have already started clogging roads. All because of this extremely reckless, disastrous war launched by netanyanu and his friend trump. They brought the war to India's neighbourhood. The consequences are affecting millions of Indians. If the war persists, it will hit the economy hard. And Delhi has to coordinate with both Arab capitals and Tehran to navigate this crisis.

I mean, everyone may have an opinion, including journalists. But don't take it straight out of the IDF lingo.

[m @skitzocat]

"bees don't waste their time explaining to flies why honey is better than shit"

[Siege @Siege4570]

BIG UPDATE | Defence Procurement Board (DPB) clears acquisition of 60 indigenous DRDO “Ghatak” Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) for Indian armed forces 🇮🇳

Even more significant , it will be powered by the indigenous Kaveri Derivative Engine (KDE).
#Defence

[Hukum 🇮🇳 @hukum2082]

Let me tell you a story :

He is at best a place holder in the larger scheme of things.The IAF as an org is ideologically aligned with inducting the Rafale.Large parts of its operational doctrine and CAPEX is aligned with the induction of this “game changer”

The elite Vajra cult spent a whopping $2.2Bn on upgrading the Mirage-2000 H/TH to I/TI standard. So much so that the Su-30MKI mid life upgrades were completely put on the back burner.

These shenanigans got exposed when the SU-30MKIs were found wanting in BVR engagements against a principal adversary.The Flanker is at best a Bhishma Pitamah in the larger scheme of things.

The Tejas Mk1 and Mk1A isn���t their blue eyed boy. It is just a promising kid who got admitted on an EWS quota.The boy will be allowed to rise but not too much as it doesn’t belong to the elite clan.

The leadership will hem and haw and make all the right noises but not commit wholeheartedly to the program.This is a class war where the loyal knights will sacrifice themselves to protect the crown prince from the peasants.

As far as the AMCA goes , it was chai biskoot time pass until the PAF started making the right noises about inducting the J-35s.

That shook Vayu Bhawan out of its slumber and suddenly the AMCA was too late and too slow despite the org being fully aware that the CCS approval was allowed to drag for a good 3-4 years.

Suddenly it was no more Chai Biskoot , 5th Gen required a quick fix solution and what could sound more politically correct and visually pleasing than the F-35.

The F-35 might or might not make it but you get the drift.The IAF’s Plan B remains the Rafale and it will use “साम, दाम, भेद “ to induct it.The Tejas Mk2 attaining primacy is a nightmare which makes the cult wake up drenched in sweat.

The Tejas is a compromise candidate which was inducted because the defence minister of the day understood the organisational politics and cracked the whip.

The commoner “Mk2” can never be allowed to be the crown prince.That would be sacrilege of the highest order.Long live the Cult !

End

Disclaiimer : “The characters in this story are entirely fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."

[Jake Fernandes @Jake_fernandes_]

very important

[Dany @wartrophy_414]

India has a smol PP problem

PP as in procurement & priority problem. We do small procurement & little priority on stuff that needs scale. That's why everyone talks of Rafales yet no one talks of hundreds of Phase-1 & phase 2 BMD interceptors. No one talks of cheap CUAS either

[Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah]

In Hubballi to cheer the J&K cricket team as they seal a historic win. There hasn’t been a day over the 5 day final that the team hasn’t dominated the opposition.