A Trump White House advisor just said socialism in America is inevitable.
Not possible.
Inevitable.
David Friedberg sits on Trump’s science and tech council.
His claim:
The more government “helps” with college, healthcare, and housing…
the more expensive those things get.
Federal student loans didn’t make college affordable.
They made tuition unlimited.
Admin staff went from 10% of campuses to 60%.
No market force left to stop the price.
63% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Things cost more than wages.
So both parties say the same thing:
“The government will do more.”
He says that’s fuel on the fire.
The American advantage was never a house.
It was the jump from labor to capital.
Work. Save. Own assets. Stop living month to month.
Socialism kills that jump.
Everyone stays labor forever.
No one gets free.
He said he’s been predicting a socialist wave for five years.
After Trump won, he doubled down.
His words:
“It is absolutely inevitable.”
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You are bored because you are not doing side quests.
Life is not just work and lying in bed doing nothing.
Here are 50 side quests every man should complete:
One of the most important lessons of my happened in my early twenties.
I learned that that optimism and drive are extremely contagious. And so are complaining and negativity.
My eyes were opened to this when I moved to San Francisco after college in 2002.
I was surrounded by people who were more driven than I was, more curious than I was, and frankly, much more successful than I was.
And it was incredible.
I would walk into rooms where I was the least successful person there, listen to how people talked, watch how they carried themselves, and feel their energy.
I would walk out of those rooms ready to knock down walls, and it made me think bigger.
Because when you are around people building things, taking risks, pushing hard, and believing crazy things are possible, that energy gets into you.
The opposite is true too.
Complaining is contagious. Cynicism is contagious. And so are low standards.
That’s why who you spend time around matters so much.
You’re not just choosing friends.
You are choosing the energy you absorb - and choosing your life trajectory.
Life is amazing:
-coffee exists
-gyms exist
-hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1
-you and your wife can drink 4 bottles of wine then smash all night without a condom
-you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a Coldplay concert
-every food item in the world has been hunted/gathered for you (grocery stores)
-you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country
There are people who live in wheelchairs. There are kids born with disabilities. No 4th of July weekends, no sleepovers with their best friends staying up until 2AM watching Interstellar.
And you’re not SMASHING the gym like a grateful SAVAGE!? Eating healthy 90% of the time, calling your friends for no reason, CRUSHING it in your career, asking for the promotion, asking out your crush making her your girlfriend then your wife!?
You are spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle - you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)
Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.
Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”
Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.
We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.
Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”
The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.
That is not a funding problem.
That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.
Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”
That sentence should keep you up tonight.
We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.
It is the opposite.
Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.
Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”
They did not run out of stone.
They were not conquered.
They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.
That is the real threat to everything we have built.
Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.
A quiet forgetting.
Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.
The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.
And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.
We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.
Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.
One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.
You do not lose the future in a war.
You lose it in your sleep.
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