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$1,300 to $2,350 in 4 years. That's an 80% rent increase. Your salary didn't go up 80%. Your groceries cost went up. Your bills didn't get cheaper. This isn't a budgeting problem. It's a structural problem disguised as a personal failure. You can't cut your way out of a system designed to cost more than you earn. You have to build your way out.

@RJScaringe @Uber 50,000 robotaxis across 25 cities by 2031. That's not a pilot program. That's a full replacement plan with a timeline. Uber drivers aren't being phased out they're being counted down.

I’m excited to announce a partnership with @Uber. As part of this, Uber plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian and deploy up to 50,000 R2 robotaxis. This partnership accelerates our path to Level 4 autonomy and supports our goal of building one of the safest autonomous platforms in the world—across both shared and personally owned vehicles. The combination of Rivian’s rapidly growing data flywheel, our in-house RAP1 inference platform (800 TOPS), and our multi-modal perception stack provides a powerful foundation to scale autonomy quickly and responsibly over the next couple of years.

@PolymarketMoney New home sales down 17.6% in a single month. Rates at 6.86%. Prices still near record highs. Buyers doing the math and walking away. The market isn't cooling. It's freezing.

US NEW HOME SALES PLUNGED 17.6% MONTH OVER MONTH IN JANUARY TO 587K.

@TukiFromKL They fired the people. Bought the GPUs. Told Wall Street AI would change everything. Goldman just looked at the results and said it added basically nothing. The jobs are already gone. The growth never came. And the people who made those calls still got their bonuses.

🚨 Let me tell you why this Goldman Sachs headline is the most dangerous one you'll read today.. Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year.. fired tens of thousands of people to "restructure around AI".. replaced entire departments with chatbots.. And Goldman Sachs just said it contributed basically zero to economic growth.. so where did the money go? > It went to Nvidia.. $130 billion in GPU sales.. Jensen is the only man on earth who got rich from AI that hasn't produced anything yet.. > It went to stock buybacks.. companies fired people, cut costs, reported "record profits" and bought back their own shares.. the money went UP not OUT.. Jesus! > It went to a bubble.. the same way crypto money went to Lamborghinis and not infrastructure.. AI money is going to valuations and not productivity.. here's the part that should terrify you.. They already fired the people.. Atlassian 1,600.. Meta 21,000.. Block 40%.. Amazon warehouses.. the jobs are already gone.. But the growth didn't come.. the productivity didn't come.. the revenue didn't come.. they burned the village to build a city that doesn't exist yet.. and Goldman Sachs just looked at the empty lot and said "there's nothing here"

@Reuters Uber is spending $1.25 billion on 10,000 driverless cars. That's not an investment in the future. That's a headcount reduction with a delivery date. Every one of those robotaxis is a driver that doesn't need a wage, a tip, or a bathroom break.

Uber will invest up to $1.25 billion in electric vehicle maker Rivian to acquire 10,000 fully autonomous robotaxis that will be deployed in 2028 reut.rs/4sVOjva

@shortsqueeznews Goldman and JPMorgan are building tools to bet against the private credit market. The same banks that sold it to everyone are now offering their best clients a way to profit when it breaks. They're not warning you. They're positioning ahead of you.

BREAKING: Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are offering hedge fund clients ways to short the $1.8 trillion private credit market.

@DutchRojas 12 years of medical school to make the call. 2 weeks of training to deny it. That's American healthcare. The person who knows the least about your body has the most power over your treatment.

Your doctor went to medical school for 12 years. The person denying your claim went through a two-week training module.

@UziCryptoo 90,000 hours of your life goes to work. Most of it building someone else's dream, paying someone else's mortgage, growing someone else's net worth. And the 4 weeks you get to actually live is supposed to be enough. That's not a life. That's a lease.

People work 8–10 hours a day, 5 days a week for someone else’s profit. Then they spend 4 hours at night staring at screens. Basically, living for weekends + 4 weeks PTO on repeat until age 65. While the government takes 25–30% their income. And we’re told this is “normal.”

@trentjhughes 200 people paying $99 a month to not be lonely. That's not a side hustle. That's a real business built on the most underserved need of our generation. The loneliness economy is massive and barely anyone is building for it.

Side hustle idea locally: Local young adults social club Monthly fee of $99 a month Hiking trips Bowling nights Rooftop dinners Holiday parties 200 members That's $19,800 a month People are craving it We did a version of this in NC Not a bad little business...

@Polymarket An AI model showed up anonymously and refused to say who built it. At this point the AI space moves so fast that a mystery model appearing overnight isn't even surprising anymore. Three years ago ChatGPT didn't exist. Now we're tracking anonymous AI drops like sneaker releases.

JUST IN: Mysterious AI model appeared on OpenRouter and “declined to identify its developer,” fueling speculation it could be DeepSeek.

@KobeissiLetter Bitcoin down $5,000 in a day and people are calling it a crash. It was at $16,000 two years ago. Zoom out. The noise is loud. The chart is still up.

BREAKING: Bitcoin falls -$5,000 in 24 hours and drops below $70,000 as the broader selloff accelerates due to surging energy prices.

Microsoft tried to force AI onto every Windows user and had to back down because nobody asked for it. $80 billion into AI infrastructure and the biggest pushback came from people who just wanted their computer to work. Turns out shoving a product down people's throats isn't the same as building one they want.

Microsoft says it won’t auto-install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows 11, likely due to outrage over “Microslop.” The rollout was set for late 2025 but is now on hold.

@unusual_whales The S&P 500 is now trading 24/7 on a crypto exchange. The line between traditional finance and crypto just got a lot blurrier. The institutions spent years calling crypto a scam. Now they're putting their most valuable product on it.

The owner of the S&P 500 index is licensing the world’s most tracked stock index for the launch of a derivative contract that trades around the clock on the crypto exchange Hyperliquid, per WSJ

@Bitcoin_Teddy At 20 you want people to see what you have. At 35 you want to actually have it. The flex changes when you stop needing validation and start needing freedom.

At 20 I thought: - The $8,000 Rolex was cool - The $70,000 Mercedes was cool - The giant yacht party was cool At 35 I now realize: - 6.25 whole Bitcoin is cooler - Gym at 10am on a Tuesday is cooler - Having a relationship with God is cooler Success looks different with age.

@Nithya_Shrii Rich kids get a down payment. Middle class kids get advice. Poor kids get told the struggle made them stronger. Same finish line. Three completely different starting blocks. And then everyone acts surprised when the results aren't equal.

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

@StockSavvyShay Record profits. Record margins. 40% above expectations. Stock down 5%. The market doesn't reward what you did. It punishes you for not doing more than it imagined. That's the game. You can win and still lose on the scoreboard.

Imagine being $MU CEO Sanjay Mehrotra right now: • You just generated $16B in operating profit this quarter after doing only $8B in revenue a year ago • Operating Margin 69% vs Est. 62% (nearly 7 points above what Wall Street modeled) • You guided revenue ~40% above expectations, guided to a record 81% margin, raised the dividend 30% & still trade at under 10x forward earnings Stock is down 5%.

@rushicrypto They didn't know it was a depression while they were living it. They just knew things kept getting worse and the recovery everyone promised kept not showing up. That's always how it works. The label comes years later. The damage happens in real time.

At what point after the 1929 crash did people realize they were in an economic depression?

Not as behind as the numbers look. No debt at 28 with a doctorate is actually rare. Most people in his position are $100k in the hole before they start. $4k saved is low but it's a foundation. The real question isn't how far behind he is. It's whether $60k in music gives him room to build. The debt-free part is the head start most people don't realize they have.

my friend is 28 yo he just got a doctorate in music. he has: - 60k/yr income - 4k saved - no debt - 1 car he doesn't have any assets. how far behind is he?

@MorePerfectUS Digital price tags that update automatically based on demand. That's not an efficiency upgrade. That's surge pricing at the grocery store. Uber charges more when it's raining. Walmart's about to charge more when you're hungry.

Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.

@factpostnews 40% of Americans can't pay off their credit card every month. That means 40% of the country is paying 20-30% interest on top of everything else that's already unaffordable. The bank doesn't need to raise your rent. They just need you to carry a balance.

New data reveals 40% of Americans cannot afford to pay their credit card balances each month. Americans now owe more credit card debt than at any point in history.

@Dexerto Facebook is paying creators $3,000 a month to switch platforms. That's not a creator program. That's a panic move from a company that watched TikTok and YouTube eat their lunch for a decade. The platform needs you more than you need it. Act accordingly.

Facebook is launching a creator program paying $1,000 to $3,000 per month for creators to switch platforms Creators must have 100K to 1M followers on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube to be eligible