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Ministry of Truth
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Inequality doesn't matter. Poverty matters. And it's good for poverty to go down even if inequality goes up.
More billionaires is associated with lower poverty. Even communist-party-run China has billionaires now. Since opening their economy in 1980 to trade, markets, private companies, & even stock markets, extreme poverty in China collapsed. But inequality rose. What do y'all think?
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End Social Security. End Medicare. Stop giving benefits to the richest of us.
The wealth gap between old and young Americans is now enormous.
Median household net worth by age, per the Federal Reserve’s 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances:
Under 35: $33,000
35–44: $155,600
45–54: $253,700
55–64: $411,900
65–74: $431,300
75+: $504,900
The typical household 75 and older is now worth 15 times as much as one under 35.
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Private sector FTW. Competition FTW:
"annual per-patient savings of ... 95.8% and 96.4%, respectively"
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I'll believe the "Housing is a human right" crowd when they start taking on this challenge.
Want to make sure you lose millions? Think your smarter then everyone else? Believe profit is a sin and housing is a human right?
Then you should buy this rent stabilized property. Gut renovate it and rent it out at the current rents.
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This dude is retarded. The government is retarded.
GM just announced the biggest stock buyback in automotive industry history.
Instead of investing in their workers or new product lines, GM executives are robbing from the future to pay themselves and their shareholders today.
Stock buybacks should be illegal.
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You'll soon enough see automotive journalists and amateur racers pitting the Mission S and the Roadster against each-other on the track. And the Roadster will probably come out on top. Oh, and it'll outsell the Mission S.
That demo was insane. Mindblowing.
But there is not a real car guy on the planet that would pick that over the Mission S
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Dude is apparently unaware that hypercars designed to be toys for rich people pretty much always sell out their allotment before production even begins.
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There sure are a lot of people who know nothing about cars expressing wild opinions about the Roadster tonight.
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Democracy is when the people enshrine their most irresponsible fantasies into law.
People want socialism and lower taxes. We want mass deportation but also no one to ever be wrongly inconvenienced by the police ever. We want to bring back manufacturing but will fight tooth and nail against any new development project. We hate government handouts but expect be protected from competition for our jobs. Democracy!
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Blake is correct as usual. The problem is that a bunch of people, mostly on the left, don't want to admit that some are more ambitious than others, and deserve to prosper more for succeeding more.
What if the result of AI is that most people don’t need to work as hard to subsist, and people who choose to work even harder can get extra wealthy?
And then ppl will be upset about the divide between the rich/poor but it will really be the divide between the ambitious vs not?
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Universal healthcare, monopolized and nationalized by the government, isn't access to actual healthcare services. It's access to waiting lists and queues.
The private sector does healthcare way better.
Europe is dead.
My son hurt his foot. Couldn't sleep from the pain. Called for help: give painkillers, call tomorrow.
Now 4 hours at emergency in the Netherlands, still waiting for a cast.
Taxed 50% on everything. This is what you get when you need care.
Time to leave.
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Vienna is ranked the most livable city, but it has fewer residents than it did in 1910! During that time the global population has quadrupled or something.
If Vienna is so great, why don't more people move there? Or do they keep people out to keep quality high?
BREAKING: The Association for Human Drivers strongly condemns the reduction in traffic deaths achieved by Tesla's Full Self Driving.
"We did not ask for these lives to be saved."
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