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[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@ka_monteneg @stabledash @RkBench @radiustech_xyz Agree. It’s two-fold: 1) agents buy ads to offer capability for its customers, and 2) agents will be interested in ads offering capabilities to do/access something new or to get it done for a cheaper price.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@brockm I like where you’re coming from, Mike. Can’t say Inagree or disagree with you. But I can respect you putting out thoughts that are not popular, with good intention.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@brian_armstrong Who approves spend for redundant platforms. You find this to be a good way to spend resources? So your teams pay each other internally? wtf are you talking about? This sounds like one of those comments that sounds smart at first but unpractical af

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@Securitize Just off a team call about the SEC’s Innovation Exemption, but still so much detail needed; class preference, mandatory/voluntary offering asset servicing, defining TSVs, audit compliance, etc.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@theallinpod PROVE TO THE WORKD HE’S WRONG!! If you slander him or simply disagree… Don’t just talk it, prove it.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@DarrelFrater AI portfolio managers for DeFi

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@Jason Maybe Satoshi didn’t anticipate the explosion of bitcoin alternatives in both TradFi and DeFi.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

If you subscribe to the idea that AI and robotics will eventually eliminate the need for human labor and create a comfortable life for the people, then you should be advocating to write it into law today — guarantee the future today will accelerate support.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

Labor is not guaranteed to always be a fully human effort. We’re at the precipice of an era where humans are not the process that control what happens between man and nature.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

Compute will go up when there’s scarcity in the market; power infrastructure, GPU demand, AI systems, compute futures, etc. As governments and hyperscalers around the world trade these in the marketplace, demand will create scarcity for these resources and drive prices up.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@USTreasury @FinCENnews I’m assuming this is the database that NYC and @NYCMayor Mamdani would have referenced for their recent pied-à-terre tax.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@chamath Beneath the layer of Politics, these are think tank level discussions that conclude for war. The idea that a company marks-up the cost of a product/service should “kill” another that provides a comparable offering for much less is a fundamental concept behind perpetual war.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@kingthies I’ll take the 4,700% with the confidence and peace of mind that comes with Sandusky over any crypto..even if the upside of that crypto is higher. I would love to take the crypto trade here, but wouldn’t.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@BernieSanders what key points in your proposal give the workers the most power, protection, and authority to be true “owners” of plans like these. Not a plan that makes the workers pay for the buildout, but get shafted down the road?

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

JD Vance just admitted the White House plan is to take ownership of every major AI company in America.

Steven Bartlett brought up Bernie Sanders' proposal that workers should own 50% of the major AI companies.

Vance's response: "The president by the way likes that idea too. He likes that idea."

Trump's preferred mechanism, Vance said, is a sovereign wealth fund where the US government takes equity stakes in private AI companies.

The Vice President literally just confirmed that an administration is planning the most radical economic policy proposed in modern American history. Partial nationalization of the MOST valuable private companies on earth. And the idea originally came from Bernie Sanders, who Vance said Trump agrees with on this point.

This is not a small thing:

The US has spent 80 years selling the world on the model where private companies stay private and the government stays off the cap table.

The countries that did the opposite, with sovereign wealth funds owning slices of their biggest firms, are Norway, Saudi Arabia, China, and Singapore. And the Trump administration told you on a podcast it wants to do the same to Silicon Valley.

But the reasoning Vance gave for it is where it gets really interesting...

He said the historical analogy that scares him is the original Industrial Revolution. His own words:

"Rich people got way richer. And that led to in Europe fascism and communism."

He believes AI will not cause mass unemployment but mass inequality, and that mass inequality is what breaks societies. His fix is that workers need a seat at the bargaining table before the wealth gets created, not a redistribution check after.

"I think labor unions are a very important model here."

And the other thing about AI that scares him is surveillance. His exact phrase was that AI is "fundamentally a communist technology" because it lets governments and corporations watch and score people in ways NOTHING else can.

He said he doesn't want a social credit system, doesn't want a tech CEO deciding whether you can buy a beer based on an algorithm nobody understands, and is afraid of exactly that outcome.

So here is the full picture:

The sitting Republican administration believes AI will make the rich dramatically richer, that this will radicalize the country the way the Industrial Revolution radicalized Europe, that the answer is government equity stakes plus stronger labor unions, and that the second-biggest threat is the surveillance state these companies are building.

That is not a Republican worldview. That is not even a Democratic worldview.

This is a worldview that has no political home in the United States right now.

Most people are still arguing about whether ChatGPT will take their jobs. But the people with the actual power are already past that argument.

They are quietly designing the framework for owning the companies that will.

The craziest part is how casually Vance dropped it as a sidenote on a podcast millions will half-listen to in the background.

If you have money in OpenAI, Anthropic, or anything like that, you should be watching the full thing yourself.

What do you think?

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

“The miracle at the Garden”

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

@Jason Or perhaps, a humiliating loss for the Secretary of War.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

You don’t want to know what happens to your people if their labor is no longer needed.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

“More technology, more opportunity.”

There’s a correlation between the increase is technologies you can apply to a data set and the opportunity to provide solutions that further capitalize that data set. Whether we’re talking about personal, geographical, financial data.

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

If you’re distributing rewards for staking, how do you know the tokens staked are not hypothecated?

[John David Ramirez @johnramirez]

Didn’t see Bitcoin becoming a national security issue…but that’s where we’re headed.