Ola

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

This is the philosophical bankruptcy of a brilliant engineer laid bare in a single post.

Musk proposes that the government pay people not to work because machines will do the working for them. This is not a new idea. It is the old idea of something for nothing, repackaged in silicon.

Start with the economics. Mises demonstrated that production must precede consumption. You cannot distribute wealth that has not been created by someone. If AI produces the goods, someone still owns the AI, maintains it, directs it, and decides what it produces. That is not a post-work society. That is a society in which the producers have changed tools. The question Musk refuses to ask is: by what right does the government seize the output of those producers to mail checks to those who did not produce it?

"There will not be inflation" because production will exceed the money supply increase. This assumes the government will print only enough and never more. This is the assumption of every inflationist in history. Hayek called this the pretense of knowledge. Mises demonstrated that no central authority can calculate economic outcomes for a dynamic economy because it lacks the pricing information that only free markets generate. This is not a technical problem to be solved. It is an impossibility built into the nature of centralized control.

Now the moral question Musk avoids entirely. Man survives by using his mind. Work is not a burden to be eliminated. It is the means by which a rational being sustains his life, creates value, and achieves purpose. A man who receives a check for existing is not free. He is a dependent. He has been severed from the process that gives his life meaning. Rand would say Musk is proposing to turn every American into a ward of the state, fed and housed by the productive, with no purpose and no self-respect.

Mike Lee asks the right question: why would you trust the government to do this? But the deeper question is: why would you want any institution, government or otherwise, to replace the individual's responsibility for his own survival? That is not compassion. That is the destruction of the human spirit performed with a direct deposit.

Musk builds rockets because he refused to accept that space was closed to private enterprise. He should apply that same principle to the economy: trust free individuals to adapt, innovate, and create new forms of value, as they have after every technological revolution in history. The printing press did not create permanent unemployment. Neither did the steam engine, electricity, the automobile, or the internet. Each one destroyed old jobs and created new ones that no one could have predicted. AI will do the same, if the government stays out of the way.

Universal High Income is not the future. It is the end of the future, paid for monthly.

[Ola @olab___]

@Anthony_Vogt @BasedTorba @elonmusk Do you really think they will give you money if you can produce your own food? Money from government to travel? That's funny

[Andrew Torba @BasedTorba]

Handing people a check isn't going to solve the crisis of meaning and the spiritual void in people's lives.

What will people *do* all day?

Shop? Scroll another feed?

From where and what will they derive meaning?

They aren't starting families. Most of them reject God. There is no point in going to school beyond the level of basic reading writing and math if jobs are nuked. Not to mention the fact that we now have access to intelligence on demand in our hands.

Remove the job that gives someone a some small sense of purpose (and for many the only sense of belonging and community they have) and it's a recipe for disaster that no amount of money will solve.

How do you determine how much everyone gets? Does the crack addict get the same check as the 140 IQ young guy with endless potential? On what basis can some afford a yacht and others never reach that level?

No one has seriously given any meaningful thought into what this actually looks like in the real world with real people and how it will impact their lives spiritually, mentally, and physically, not just financially.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: They used feminism to get women into the workforce so they could tax both parents and raise your kids themselves.

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Verified document from Israeli Ministry of Intelligence in October 2023 suggests forced displacement of Gaza civilians to Egypt would "yield positive and long term strategic results".

The advisory document envisions a three stage process including the establishment of tent cities in Sinai and opening of humanitarian corridor, followed by construction of cities in northern Sinai from which there would be no return.

Link to full doc [עברית]: https://t.co/lWynFVOsA6

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators and leaders from across the political spectrum, all the way to the United Nations. This created the space for a long period of negotiations with the US Department of Justice, leading to a deal that has not yet been formally finalised. We will provide more information as soon as possible.

After more than five years in a 2x3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day, he will soon reunite with his wife Stella Assange, and their children, who have only known their father from behind bars.

WikiLeaks published groundbreaking stories of government corruption and human rights abuses, holding the powerful accountable for their actions. As editor-in-chief, Julian paid severely for these principles, and for the people's right to know.

As he returns to Australia, we thank all who stood by us, fought for us, and remained utterly committed in the fight for his freedom.

Julian's freedom is our freedom.

[More details to follow]

[Ola @olab___]

Inward processes of thought make up the sum of character and life. Man can modify and alter these processes by bringing will and effort to bear upon them.

[Ola @olab___]

It is the nature of the mind to create its own conditions, and to choose the states in which it shall dwell. It also has the power to alter any condition, to abandon any state.

[signüll @signulll]

it’s incredible how much people today use traveling as a substitute for finding any real meaning or purpose in life.

[M.I.A. ⊕ II II II @MIAuniverse]

“If WARS can be started by LIES, PEACE can be started with TRUTH” - Julian Assange

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

If you are cheering on mass killings of people just because of their ethnicity/nationality/religion, you are not "awake" and you are certainly not "anti-war". You are also not "anti-establishment" or "anti deep state" because death is what the establishment sells.

[Ola @olab___]

@dr__submarine Everyone is living a hard life, everyone is fighting battles, but there are no excuses for being an alcoholic and making the life of your family members even harder. Weak people hide behind poision. That's the example they're giving.

[Ola @olab___]

@AugustEichel @dr__submarine I hope this is a joke

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

One of my favourite quotes from John Bradshaw, pioneer of inner child work: “the wrong belief about ourselves leads to wrong choosing. You create the world that you believe is out there. What you believe about yourself will be the map you use to make every decision about your life…”

[Ola @olab___]

@shawtyastrology Looking back and thinking "It was a gift!"

[Ola @olab___]

@ZubyMusic @techstartupmama Where on this earth real woman are leaving men for a taller man? And if you fear that, there's a big problem with you and your insecurities.

[Ola @olab___]

Let go of whatever you can't control.
Free yourself up for renewal.