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media vita in morte sumus

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Into the Memory Hole @frogNscorpion]

>we need to play chess!
>don't fedpost!
>watch your optics!
>don't try to rile people up!
>be realistic about demographics!
>be realistic about deportations!
>trust the 40 year plan!
>you have to respect their rights!
>the rule of law!
>don't be a hypocrite!

[AlfredRex @alfred_rex1]

@HantsPolice One of your officers has been receiving death threats?

I don't think he has, mate.

[𝕀𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕠 Very poor & Very stupid @insiliconot]

Even if someone would provide an miracle strategy/indicator with 100% accuracy, majority would still lose money when manual trading. Because its not really market knowledge or some secret sauce that prevents manual traders from success.
At its root its the perception over markets, that is not perceiving it like a job or strict ruleset game, where u login, scalp some profit, logout, came in next day, but perceiving it as casino/golden ticket/homerun etc.
To be successful in this first you need to win a fight against yourself, fight against most basic psychological instincts and feels, a fight that filters 99% of people attempting it and makes it lowest success rate profession on earth.
Every single losing trader, with little thought put into it, and experience past the point of coping with "market's is scam", "rigged", "algos/divine forces/exchange/market maker on my ass rekting me" will understand why he's lossing money, why he's not succeeding, yet he do same things and same mistakes over and over.
Its an individual choice, a personal fight, noone can help him but speculator himself.
Most plebs that actually invested some time to learn this art probably already have everything that is required to be successful and operate effectively, yet it choses not to use it by losing to its own emotions, perceptions, and thoughts.

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@alCamel77 Sir, yes sir! See u on the other side

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@alCamel77 Alt szn???

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@alCamel77 Copytraded ur box, insturctions unclear... what alts we scooping?? Pls incluse entry and price target

[Diomedes Appreciator @HomericFuturist]

This is like something straight out of a 1930s propaganda poster

[Jordan K @JordykJordan]

Modern women have stricter height requirements than Hitler

[Heart @heart_]

I’ve been called french once

[EU Commission Accountability fan @eu_acccomm]

@EU_Commission Don’t believe your eyes when walking in any European capitol, it’s disinformation. Better trust the EU commission, their employees can totally relate to the common European and are not out of touch elitists.

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@zimuth Here in the country of the hookers all lounges are gone since 2022 to pRoTecT viSotOrs and wOrkErs

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@RNR_0 Dutch is the real English

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Local Carpenter Continues To Spread Disinformation Deemed Harmful By Religious Experts https://t.co/LZ7Lk2h2Do

[Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet]

What could be more important than identifying high IQ children and investing in their development for the betterment of society?

Retards. We invest in retards, forsake the smart kids, and do our dystopian best to ensure continued societal decay.

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@larpcapitalwc @bobwebberlawyer

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@bluewmist Rock bottom is a trampoline

[Eindhoven-in-verzet @anticovidiano74]

Why The #Netherlands Is Quietly Collapsing (The 5 Crises Nobody Sees Coming) #Nederland stort langzaam aan in....... :-(

[StockJobber @randompattern01]

@RNR_0 @Bybit_Official @BybitEU Don't worry they already know ur balance, just wanna see if u going to be honest abt it