Phil K

Clevelander. Washingtonian. Angelino. Vancouverite. Video games. Baseball. Watches. Trains.

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@TheGNPE Both these people are insufferable

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@David_Moscrop - sent from my iPhone

[Lessons @onlypreneurs]

In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.

the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

The people now freaking out about the betrayal of Haley Stevens are the same people who previously praised the patriotism of Liz Cheney.

Political people have what we call "situational ethics."

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@iwelsh ME2 stripped away almost all of the actual gameplay and felt like mostly an interactive story

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@USA_Polling Unhinged, misogynistic, and pathetic

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@Dock_Currie @Aaronpete_ @JarrydJaeger Just as Patti is benefiting from largely far left content in the Tyee

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@greatironchris We're not different, we just have some overlapping qualities of both generations

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@SPYTrader247 @KarmSumal Dogs survived for millions of years in the wild. They can handle one night of fireworks.

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@andiev777 @babybeginner Okay grandma

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

There’s a long list of billionaires who literally became billionaires by building companies to such a massive scale that they are able to be the low cost provider of services. The literal entire purpose of the business is to lower your bill!

You are familiar with the canonical examples. Bezos and Amazon. Walton and Walmart. Sinegal and CostCo. Shit. Rockefeller. Henry Ford.

And then you have a whole class of billionaires who built digital platforms that took what used to be thousands and thousands in annual spend and bundled it into an unbelievably cheap subscription. Daniel Ek and Spotify. Reed Hastings and Netflix. Not to mention Google! That’s all free!

IKEA! Zara!

I could keep going. You get the idea and this point. Regardless of how you feel about the eventual concentration of wealth that comes from building these services, it is ignorant at best (I won’t discuss the worst) to claim that consumers never benefit

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@WitnessAngels @MattCover So when's that gonna happen? Walmart has been around for half a century.

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@GeoffRuss3 Oh the horror!

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@Quea_Ali @kinsellawarren Because they don't have any principles. They support their team as long as their team is winning.

[guru pacifico @grnpointer]

Crunchwrap supreme

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@JakeLandauTO Genuinely why do you live in Canada if you hate everything about it so much?

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Name one? How about a few?

Rockefeller lowered the cost of kerosene through efficient refining and distribution.

Ford made automobiles affordable through mass production.

Carnegie reduced steel production costs through industrial innovation.

Walton lowered retail prices through bulk purchasing and efficient logistics.

Dell made computers cheaper by eliminating retail intermediaries.

Kamprad made furniture affordable through flat-pack manufacturing and distribution.

Bezos intensified retail competition through Amazon.

Koum made international messaging practically free through WhatsApp.

Page and Brin made search, navigation, email, and translation available without direct charges.

And that's barely scratching the surface.

In fact, it would be considerably more challenging to find a billionaire who earned their fortune through voluntary trade without lowering costs, improving quality, increasing productivity, or making something more accessible.

That's how fortunes are generally made in competitive markets. You create value for others, and the more people you serve, the greater your potential reward.

You don't even have to buy from these businesses to benefit. Their competitors must improve their offerings or risk losing customers.

These clout chasers destroy their credibility daily without so much as flinching.

They enjoy the accumulated benefits of capitalist innovation while confidently demanding evidence that any of it ever happened.

The economic illiteracy would be impressive if it weren't so commonplace.

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@esjesjesj Amazon has saved millions of people thousands of dollars per year on essentials

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@Nick_Decap People will call this "compassion"

[Phil K @PJinVan]

@B1Gsad Most hilarious thing is duds and losers racing online to blame "capitalism" or some other bogeyman instead of doing something that actually contributes to society 🤷‍♂️