Saving for retirement is pointless for the opposite reason Musk thinks. Inflation and the destruction of all economic institutions through greed will make it futile. We won't all be rich, we'll all be poor.
Elon Musk said saving for retirement becomes pointless in 10 to 20 years. Not speculation. Math.
Musk: “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in like ten or 20 years. It won’t matter.”
We passed the event horizon. Retirement savings assumes scarcity persists. It won’t. AI and robotics collapse labor costs to zero. Living costs follow. You’re not saving for security. You’re saving for a world that stops existing.
Musk: “If any of the things that we’ve said are true, saving for retirement will be irrelevant.”
A bystander called the police on a dad for taking his two young daughters into a QuikTrip women’s restroom because he didn’t want them in the men's room. The heated argument left the little girl visibly terrified and crying.
Who do you think is at fault here?
Today, Rorate has published a detailed Thomistic critique of the VIRTUS program ("safe environment training") that a father sent to his diocese and now makes available for the public benefit. He castigates it as a bureaucratic sell-out to insurance companies that subtly sexualizes and in that sense psychologically abuses those who are subjected to it, and underlines its many deviations from Catholic teaching on morality and parental rights.
https://t.co/g6l48O9fMl
We live in our own version of Minority Report where America is the police and Netanyahu is one of those creepy people in the little pool telling us about future crimes.
You and I aren't guilty of eating the apple in the Garden, but we are nonetheless cursed by Original Sin
Modern Jews are not guilty of the death of Christ, but all unbaptized Jews are cursed by the killing of God by their ancestors
This is the Catholic teaching from Lateran IV and Florence
Something fascinating is happening in education right now.
I recently went down a rabbit hole researching homeschooling, and the data is fascinating.
Research from the National Home Education Research Institute shows homeschool students typically score 15–25 percentile points higher on standardized tests, and about 78% of peer-reviewed studies show homeschool students outperforming traditional school students academically.
But what really surprised me was seeing it firsthand.
I recently ran a financial literacy course through Classical Learner, and I was blown away by the students.
One 14 year old was running a business with nine employees.
And I began teaching a 9 year old the Buy Borrow Die strategy.
Can you imagine learning a strategy used by billionaire families to build wealth… at age nine?
What I saw with these homeschool students is that they weren’t memorizing facts for a test.
They were thinking, building, and solving real problems.
This ties directly into neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself during childhood based on experience and learning environments.
Research from Harvard University, Stanford University, and MIT shows that learning environments focused on problem solving and curiosity produce stronger long-term outcomes than education built primarily around memorization.
Which leads to a simple observation.
Students raised in environments that encourage independent thinking, entrepreneurship, and curiosity develop skills that compound over time.
And that creates a massive competitive advantage for life.
The great news for America is that roughly 7.8% of American children are now being homeschooled, and that number continues to rise as families look for education that prioritizes curiosity, entrepreneurship, and independent thinking.
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So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war. And although we obliterated their nuclear program, we had to do this because of their nuclear program. And although Iran was not planning any attacks on the US, they also might have been, depending on who you ask. And although we are not fighting this war to free the Iranian people, they are now free, or might be, depending on who seizes power, and we have no idea who that will be. The messaging on this thing is, to put it mildly, confused.
The public school system will never be “over” because it isn’t a school it’s a daycare and people aren’t going to start watching their own kids just because the academics are a joke.
The public education system is over. It has already failed to provide even a rudimentary education to multiple generations of children. Now with AI there really is no way for a mass assembly line style system to prevent kids from using ChatGPT to do everything for them. You have two options: homeschool, or a really good (and preferably small) private school. Public education was already dying. AI just killed what was left of it. It’s done. Really. Don’t send your kid to public school. They won’t learn anything. The public education experiment failed, and now it’s over.