Aaron M. Long

@KennyEdw @KonstantinKisin Amazon has made millionaires out of their early investors and employees, and they've made life better for their customers, and it continues to be a useful business to billions of consumers, who can now buy things with a click of a button, instead of a drive across town.

@KennyEdw @KonstantinKisin AMZN has a market cap of $2.74 trillion. Jeff Bezos' personal wealth is less than a tenth of that. The rest is mostly managed by institutional investors, who are saving money on behalf of ordinary people, so that they can retire in comfort.

I do wonder if anyone on the left will ever realise that driving millions of people (including billionaires) who used to vote for you away with lunatic policies and then implying they're bad people for not voting for you is not a winning strategy? Most tech oligarchs were compliant little wokeists or at best silent and complicit objectors until very recently. Same with many in business. As it was in the UK where wealthy people were standing in line to give money and support to Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson. If you don't want media platforms to be owned by wealthy people who support your opponents, don't complain - give them someone better to vote for!

@Crypt0_Facts @pureMetatron You don't have to believe in God to respect the work of the people who did believe while they were building the foundations of the world you live in.

@Crypt0_Facts @pureMetatron It serves no purpose save to desecrate the memory of Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk who calculated the date of Easter, and who gave us our present method of enumerating the year. It's a loogie in the eye of history, spat by sanctimonious turds.

I saw a guy in my comments say he refuses to use AD with dates because “Jesus is not his God”, because he is atheist, so he says CE. By that logic then should we tell him that Thor is his god now because he says Thursday? Odin is his god because he surely says Wednesday. BCE/CE is an indefensible clown-show, no matter how you slice it, it’s a useless variant. BC/AD is and always will be the most apt.

@pureMetatron This. Anno-domini isn't an oath of allegiance to Christians. It's a nod to the Christians who *INVENTED* our way of reckoning the year.

@Rothmus That's what the standard deduction is for.

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@the_book_land Western culture? No. English, and by extension, anglosphere culture? YES.

'Shakespeare, who scarcely relies upon philosophy, is more central to Western culture than are Plato and Aristotle, Kant and Hegel, Heidegger and Wittgenstein.' 'There is no cognitive originality in the whole history of philosophy comparable to Shakespeare's, and it is both ironic and fascinating to overhear Wittgenstein puzzling out whether there is an authentic difference between the Shakespearean representation of thinking and thinking itself.' Harold Bloom, The Western Canon

@PeterSweden7 No, it's not. Sweden had 9 million people when you were born, it has almost 11 million now. You're not running out of Swedes.

It's not climate change. The falling birth rates is actually the biggest problem that humanity faces right now. How do we solve this and encourage people to have more children? Give me your best ideas 👇

@HappyMotorhead I would happily work a 9-5 job *FOREVER* if I could still look and feel like I was in early 20's. Even for my early 20's pay and lifestyle.

Retirement age should be 55. People deserve time to live, not just work until they're too tired to enjoy it. Agree or disagree?

@keid811 @AdrianDittmann Oh, here we go. Do you know what ordinary workers are doing, retard? *WORKING*. They already have a fucking job. Being a lawyer, legislator, bureaucrat and regulator is not something they have the time, inclination or training to do.

@AaronMLong @AdrianDittmann yes it should be ordinary workers who do both

@PeterDiamandis Because we already *HAVE* robots, you pillock. We've had robots in industry and manufacturing since the 1980's.

A humanoid robot will cost us $30K and works 24/7 for $0.40/hour. A solar panel generates electricity for 3 cents/kWh. What exactly is the argument that we CAN'T create abundance?

@ZoeJardiniere I'm sorry, I think you've confused me for someone else.

Give me DEYANKIFICATION or give me death.

@allenanalysis Yeah, because Virginia has a constitution which cannot be altered by a single referendum.

Let me explain what just happened in Virginia. Yesterday, 2.5 million Virginians voted. They passed a redistricting amendment 50.7% to 49.3%. Today, one judge threw out every single vote. 🧵

@PramilaJayapal No, it isn't, you're a fucking liar. You are conflating fluctuations with net worth with income. That is not how income taxes work. When your home equity increases because the government increases the money supply, the increase in the nominal value of your home is not income.

Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined. His effective tax rate: 3.3%. A truck driver pays 8.4%. Tax the rich.

@TheBillyProcida Because the airline industry, and UA in particular, does not have the profit margin to absorb a 60% increase in fuel prices. macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/…

why can't multi-billion-dollar companies just make 20% less for a little while?

@romanhelmetguy Here's a crazy idea: What if other people's reproduction choices is *NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS*, and not something to "fix".

I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets: 1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father. 2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children. 3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do. 4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up. 5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die. If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.

@BobbyDukeArts Because telling you, "I think you're obnoxious, stupid, inept or otherwise unsuitable" is lawsuit-bait. Whereas rejecting people with the line, "You're just too awesome" is an anodyne lie which gets you out of the room so they can vet the next candidate.

Why is not getting the job because you're "overqualified" a thing? It's the professional equivalent of "oh no my steak is too juicy, my lobster is too buttery!"

@Matt_Pinner Take away the temptation of wealth from the poor sinner who lost this wallet. ;)

As a child of god what's your next move?

@Baku88475562 Because we're already going to run out of uranium in about 100 years at current rates of consumption.

Why do these things exist when we have nuclear power?