People say, "Problem? There ought to be a law."
But the more government "fixes" things, the more power politicians have over us. And the less freedom WE have.
Freedom, not government, got us to 250 years.
@SteveForbesCEO, @JenAnjuGrossman, @ryanmcmaken, and others explain:
Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.
We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.
He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.
As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.
Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
Congratulations @ElonMusk.
Thanks to SpaceX's IPO, he's the first Trillionaire.
He didn't TAKE money from anyone. He CREATED wealth.
He launched satellites that connect even the poorest, most remote parts of the world.
Our world needs more MAKERS like Musk; fewer TAKERS like:
@SenAdamSchiff The problem is with Congress, not the trillionaire who is actually creating jobs and products and technological inovation. LOOK IN THE MIRROR!
.@ScottJenningsKY just torched the liberal meltdown over Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire:
“All day long, I've been listening to liberals, count and spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success. Why is it immoral? Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our capitalist system, in the greatest nation on earth, to go out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars, give internet to half the world, all the things he's doing? Why is any of this wrong or bad? Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we want to discourage anybody building anything?”
Exactly. Success isn't a crime.
@Geiger_Capital Taking money from the the world's greatest allocator of capital and giving it to government to squander is perhaps the worst idea of modern times.
@simonateba@elonmusk No. He has created companies, employed people, advanced technology, created wealth for himself and thousands of others. Go work for what you want.
@elonmusk Not to bother you with trivial stuff from a lightweight, but why is this message appearing on Grok. When I jump over to ChatGPT, I never get this. But I prefer rock.