This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
@elonmusk
Hi Elon,
OUR OBSERVATION !
As two 84 year olds welded together for the past 64 years and totally alone, we’re at a point in our long lifetime together where we couldn’t care less about what you do with your companies, what you make, or how you make it … all of that is strictly your business, and surely none of ours!
We are vastly amused every day on X viewing all the criticism, advice, and other assorted self-serving gratuitous bullshit that so many “expert” or otherwise “prescient” folks offer up on what you should or shouldn’t do with your companies, products, and procedures, especially now that IPO and mergers are hot topics.
We only know two iron-clad, first-principles, existential laws governing all human behavior; self-interest and unintended consequences.
Everything we all have ever done since the cave, do now, and will ever do until likely annihilated by malevolent AI, is motivated by our own self-interest … altruism is but a mere intellectual construct created to salve our conscience.
Unintended consequences is a byproduct of every action we take, mostly benign, sometimes benevolent, often malevolent.
We all live and die by these two immutable human nature laws, even you.
So, our wonderful Elon, we say to you, do whatever you’ve a genius mind to do, ignore all the noise, and above all be well, safe, and happy.
As for where you do your thing, it’s obvious that there’s nowhere else on this earth where you will thrive as well as you do here in beautiful America … that’s why you’re here, and you’ll never get to the moon or mars from any other country, so make damn sure that you take extremely good care of those that protect all of us externally and internally,
because without them America ceases to exist, and so do you!
This is not financial advice, merely existential!
With our most sincere best wishes for your continued success in whatever the hell you choose to do,
Ted and Francoise Gianoutsos
Anchorage, Alaska, USA 250!
PS: We’re super happy using 4 of your companies’ products, Tesla, SpaceX, X, and AI, we don’t need any tunnels bored, and don’t need any chips in our heads, YET … and we couldn’t care less about your IPO or mergers!
Thanks, Elon, you’ve made our last years really worth living and most enjoyable!
Robert Marks on @Tesla FSD (Supervised) after buying a Model Y:
"Its self-driving is the most impressively engineered consumer product since the smartphone. I say this as a practicing electrical and computer engineering professor with decades of experience in algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Among others, I’ve showed off my Tesla to a control theory professor, a retired Marine fighter pilot, and a retired police officer. All were agog.
Whether Tesla ultimately dominates the future of transportation or merely helps ignite it, one thing is clear: the automobile is being reinvented before our eyes. For those like me who grew up thinking of cars as engines, gears, and gas tanks, stepping into a Tesla feels less like buying a new car and more like getting a glimpse of tomorrow."
Full article: https://t.co/ZMF9QJcd45
Este es John Eisenman. Perdió a su hija a causa de la trata S3xual. Fue vendida por 1000 dólares en Seattle, Washington. Hizo lo que un padre debe hacer: investigó a fondo y descubrió el secuestro. La rescató personalmente. Descubrió que quien la vendió a la trata era su novio de 19 años. Se reunió con él, lo secuestró, lo golpeó y lo apuñal0 hasta la mue1te en noviembre de 2020.
🚨 This one hits different! Watch to the end — this is epic & fantastic! 🔥
The hypocrisy on display here is wild. Congress requires ID to vote on bills, but some fight tooth and nail against it for the rest of us? What do you think? 👇
This is extraordinarily clever, and well executed, and indicates a total lack of understanding of the economy.
You realize that this has always been the case, and yet a South African import can arrive in Silicon Valley and create one massive company after another from nothing.
A Taiwan import, same thing.
I could go on and on. From zero they built these companies in this country when there were plenty of oligarchs around.
@TRobinsonNewEra Unconscionable.
I am happy to fund a wrongful death lawsuit against these disgusting excuses for law enforcement. They damn well better have been fired.
No screaming. No fires. No broken glass. No threats, or machetes, or chants of “Allahu Akbar.”
Just well-mannered, civilized Brits working to save their country from barbarism.
HOLY COW: Bombshell data from the IRS has left NY Governor Kathy Hochul speechless.
Between 2020-2024, 892 companies escaped from New York - along with $47 BILLION in income with them.
Here's where they went:
• Florida: 341 companies
• Texas: 187
• North Carolina: 129
But guess what - it's no longer just billionaires.
We're talking about middle-class professionals, small business owners, and families desperate to flee the taxes, regulations and unsafe state.
Remember when Hochul made fun of them?
“Just get on a bus.” Well.... they did.
REPOST and get the data out there!
#thinblueline #lawenforcement
🚨 OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!!
It has been revealed that the city of Asheville NC will only rebuild 8 HOUSES with the $225 MILLION grant they received from the Trump administration after Hurricane Helene.
Yes, you read that right... EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
...OUT OF 11,488 DAMAGED HOMES
The city allocated ONLY $3 MILLION for home repairs.
And $14.9 MILLION for "administration"
FIVE TIMES MORE for PAPERWORK than for the people whose homes got COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!!
Over 100+ approved families are CURRENTLY ON A WAITLIST that will never be funded.
THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!
PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!