Uthekwane

“Compromise is a word from the devil” - Mrs Massie

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff! First $SPCX trade complete 🚀

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

@ClimateWarrior7 After all that food consumed, 5 triplets could occupy 1 Elon t-shirt. Let that sink in.

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

@Africa4life13 @TheJaundicedEye @Politicsweb Put God first in your thinking, girl

[Theo de Jager @TheoDJager]

@TheJaundicedEye @FrancoisRosso15 @Politicsweb A spot-on analysis of the politics of F&M

[WSM @TheJaundicedEye]

Another week, another own goal. Former DA leader John Steenhuisen is proving, as Minister of Agriculture, to be almost as destructive as the foot-and-mouth disease that he has so dismally failed to contain.
WSM's column on @Politicsweb
https://t.co/uVDXTBco8G

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

@wilkinsoncape PLEASE!!!

[Cav Senpai @cavannastan]

Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.

They did not accept.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Congratulations Elon Musk on becoming a trillionaire.

Here's a message from some of your biggest fans. 😜🤣

(Delusional malcontents)

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

@RoKhanna LITERALLY eh? From which of the relevant industries should the money come?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works.

When the majority of humanity was employed in whacking at the dirt with a pointed stick, and the height of technology was a slightly better pointed stick, anyone with a triple digit IQ could understand what was going on.

Now, we have things like stock markets, the internet, transportation infrastructure, and the Linux kernel, but most people who vote are unable to conceive of these as anything but large piles of chocolate coins, or something else they can put their mouths.

Because that's how the average monkey interacts with money. They stack the blocks, the research assistant gives them a token, they exchange the token for a banana.

It's no good trying to explain to the monkeys what supply chain is, or how a trillion dollars worth of rockets can't magically be converted into a trillion dollars worth of bananas just because they're both measured in dollars, as if a six-foot man and a six-foot plank of wood were interchangeable.

Finding a slightly different explanation, or getting the monkeys to sit still and really listen, doesn't really help.

Because the problem isn't just that the monkeys aren't paying attention. The problem is that the monkeys are monkeys.

Their brains simply don't have the developmental capacity to grow the neural connections they would need in order to grasp and manipulate the concept.

In the long term, this is why universal democracy is doomed. Because societies that let retards vote will fail, and be replaced by those that don't.

You may think that we, as a society, face a great variety of problems. We do not. We have only one. Retards. Every other problem we have is downstream from their inability to understand the consequences of their political opinions.

But to fully grasp the implications of this, you have to understand that the definition of "retard" changes over time, as technology advances, because the IQ level required to grasp what's really going on gets steadily higher and higher.

Eventually, the category "retard" grows until it includes the average person.

This has already happened.

Nick Knudsen isn't dumber than the average guy. But the average guy, the 100 IQ salt of the earth guy that's sitting on the next bar stool over, can no longer understand the modern economy. And this isn't correctable, because the problem isn't ignorance, it's complexity.

You can't make Nick Knudsen smarter by telling him things. You can't even make him less ignorant, because the bare facts aren't believable to someone who doesn't have the framework to understand how they fit together.

The people who understand what's going on are so much smarter than him that he doesn't even think they sound smart.

He thinks they sound crazy.

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

Those who have ears (and brains), let them hear :

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

@AfricaRising18 @FaraiMazhindu @ShelleyO317621 Poor little Black person - can't function unless a White p et son hands him a freebie

[Ale Resnik 🇦🇷🇺🇸/acc @AleResnik]

Don’t you find it strange that **suddenly** the Financial Times and The Economist hate capitalism?

[Phumlani M. Majozi @PhumlaniMMajozi]

South Africa’s mining and manufacturing sectors are a disaster due to bad government policies. The problem is the government in South Africa.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Dear @HumzaYousaf do you want to apologise to the 12 year old Scottish girls who were sexually harassed and violently abused by this man?

Please let us know when you will be making your apology

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Exactly right. Eric Swalwell spent three years on TV claiming that Trump was a secret agent for Russia. The MSM didn't call him a conspiracy theorist, they just let him lie to the American people. Many Democrats still believe this garbage.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

They changed “Here’s how to properly hate him” to “Is that a bad look for capitalism?” which a) doesn’t even make sense and b) isn’t fooling anybody. They said what they meant with the original headline, it just “didn’t meet their standards” because they usually try to hide their actual feelings she motives more carefully

[Jeff Lutz 🔋 @thejefflutz]

Fable 5 estimates that Musk employs a half million direct and indirect people in the US connected to businesses he created paying in $5-7B+ into SS. Bernie knows this but chooses to distort reality to create villains and divide our country

[Uthekwane @UScopus]

@FT Financial Times doesn't understand wealth creation. Odd.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon is the a bullshit remover machine.

If you hate Elon, you are probably a bullshit human.

Go learn to create value in this world.