Michael Bass

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@FutureCanes 👀

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@FutureCanes

[Paul Bissonnette @BizNasty2point0]

Such a bullshit call. Canes got hosed.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Muslim countries that support today's U.S strike on Iran: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain

Muslim countries that DO NOT support today's U.S. strike on Iran: France, United Kingdom

[Bill Simmons @BillSimmons]

The bogus TMac OPI, the unexplained call on the backward pass, then this biatant miss… that’s just this half.

[Scott Fowler @scott_fowler]

Unusual to hear a broadcast that is so absolutely sure that the Panthers are getting jobbed on calls, but that's where the ESPN crew is right now.
They have ripped officials repeatedly - for the Dowdle erroneous whistle, helmet rip-off and T-Mac offensive pass interference.

[Dylan Allman @dylanmallman]

This post is economic illiteracy on full display.

It confuses valuation with cash, wealth with money, and production with redistribution, which is the basic economic error behind almost every grievance like this.

Musk’s “money” exists as ownership stakes in capital goods that coordinate labor, technology, risk, and time across millions of voluntary exchanges.

You cannot “pay Social Security” with factories, code, satellites, or future expectations without liquidating them, collapsing the very structures that generate income and wages in the first place.

Even if you could vaporize that equity into spendable dollars, you would fund a fraction of an actuarially bankrupt program for a brief moment while destroying the productive engine that sustains it.

Wealth is created through entrepreneurial coordination under uncertainty, not hoarded as a static pile waiting to be reassigned. Social Security’s problem is not a shortage of billionaires to harvest but a political design that ignores time preference, demographics, and capital accumulation.

Calling this “taken” is a refusal to understand value creation, price signals, and economic calculation.

The claim sounds moral because it avoids thinking, and it persists because it treats prosperity as loot rather than as a fragile process that collapses the moment you start eating the machinery.

No one is poor because someone else is rich. That framing assumes a fixed pie that never grows, which is the opposite of how markets work. If Musk were actually sitting on a giant pile of idle cash, which he is not, that would signal enormous voluntary demand for what he produces and it would be deflationary.

Idle money lowers prices because it is not competing for resources. You cannot eat money or build with it. You can only exchange it, and exchange happens when value is offered and accepted.

The federal government spends in a single year an amount in the same range as the combined net worth of all US billionaires. Confiscate every dollar, pretend you could convert equity into cash without market collapse, and the state is funded for one year. Just one.

The next year there is nothing left to tax and far less productive capacity to draw from. This is why the state is the worst possible steward of capital. It faces no profit and loss discipline, operates on political incentives, rewards compliance over competence, spends other people’s money, and optimizes for short electoral horizons rather than long-term coordination.

People default to this zero-sum thinking because it feels intuitive and morally satisfying. It offers a villain, absolves personal responsibility, and replaces economic reasoning with resentment dressed up as justice.

It persists because it flatters the believer while demanding no understanding of how value is actually created. It is a huge problem and they should be rebuked accordingly.

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@andyholloway 👀

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@jasonmoore Keep your head up. You could be a Panthers fan

[Josh Klein @joshkleinrules]

Panthers last 3 drafts:

#1 overall pick QB
First round WR
Top ten WR
Top ten paid offensive line
“QB whisperer” head coach

3 points in Week 1

[Alex Ohári 🔴⚫️ @FutureCanes]

That is absolute horseshit

[UNCW Basketball @uncwmenshoops]

WE ARE YOUR 2025 CAA CHAMPIONS! 🏆

#TidalTown

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@Sheena_Marie3 Clown franchise

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@PlayStation Dive deep into your servers and fix the current issues

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@andyholloway Cry

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@andyholloway Projecting a trade back from the Panthers?

[Ron @TeetMe]

The Carolina Panthers

[Clint Fiore 🦬 DM for Biz Deals @ClintFiore]

I am so politically jaded.

The USA has pulled off a magic trick of decoupling spending from taxation entirely.

There’s not even the theater of the debt ceiling fight we used to get before we could borrow more. It’s gone.

There’s zero checks on spending.

So politicians on both sides are capitalizing on this by promising us the world- no cuts, more benefits, and can even promise us no new taxes or less taxes at the same time!

Neither side is seriously proposing we limit our spending to what we collect in taxes (or *gasp*, less!)

So I can’t take anyone seriously and am convinced they’re going to just break the dollar at some point, inflate forever, etc. and there’s no point in trying to have any serious conversation because these aren’t serious people.

Wake me up when there’s enough pain that we all demand spending controls on the government instead of infinity debt and money printing.

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@BurningOrchids @RealSpikeCohen Lesser of two evils

[Michael Bass @mbass_6]

@TripleNetTyler All that matters in this transaction is whether you’re willing to pay $40 for the service provided and whether the driver is willing to drive for $9. If so, then there’s nothing “brutal” and if not, then you are both free to choose other services/employment.