EricRWade

How Me Tweeting More Can Help Mankind (Or At Least Crypto Investors) First, you should know that Southern California (my home) is really big. It takes hours to cross, and that's just LA. So I spend a lot of time in my car. Like a lot of people, I try to use my time wisely. Sometimes that's relaxing music. Sometimes contemplative silence. But more often recently I've found myself engaging in conversations with any number of chat bots. ChatGPT to discuss technology. Claude to plan another book. Gemini and I researched air pollution in ancient Rome. (Yes, I worry about Rome and for more reasons than just the collapse.) Did you know Grok has an argumentative mode? It does. Might not be the best use of my time to try to outsmart a large language model which claims to have read everything but I was able to find and point out a gap in it's reasoning once and thoroughly flummox it. Fun story that I'd be happy to share if you're curious. But what can't be disputed is when you collect the sum total of mankind's written knowledge and you dive in, debate, discuss, and devour it... you can grow. Don't get me wrong. I don't think AI is a free technology with no possible downside to consider. My 2024 book "America vs Americans" [available on Amazon] explores in depth how America might face incredible job disruption thanks to how smart AI will eventually be. I also have a number of solutions in the book. Unsurprisingly I believe the technology offers a net positive nonetheless. Remember, AI's first job is to speed-read everything they can and get as smart as they can be by guzzling human knowledge. And that's why I specifically challenge AI every week to improve my X communications about the technologies and investment opportunities and macro economics affecting investors and everyday people. I believe if I can harness the thoughtfulness of AI, trained properly, to share knowledge and research and sometimes sarcasm with you on X... I'm interested in that. We all benefit. So how does me tweeting more help mankind? Because I'm pulling out of my friend Claude... my buddy ChatGPT... my sparring partner Grok... *my* best thoughts, ponderings, questions, philosophies, and preparations... and using technology to share them freely with anyone who - like me - wants more. That's the deal. I bring the ideas. A massive pile of technology brings the tireless research. You get the output. Let's go.

@JDVance Can you ask the President of the Senate to weigh in?

This is very simple: only Americans citizens should be allowed to vote in American elections. The SAVE America Act is common sense, and we need to pass it now!

Am I the only one who didn't know @Cinemark wastes 30+ minutes of your time before showing the movie? BTS I love you but a 30 minute delay from showtime is dumb.

@functi0nZer0 That's how we met was me tryna interview you

This is how I handle working in crypto as well I get weirded out when I’m asked for an interview or podcast appearance and then remember that everyone slobbered over a guy who lost millions because he wouldn’t sell a coin because the dog still had a hat

The question is whether it is better than the incumbent at the margin that matters most to the people the incumbent serves worst The skeptic benchmarks against ideal The investor benchmarks against what actually exists.

Compliance was solved by systems that exclude anyone outside the approved financial infrastructure The question is never whether the new system is perfect

Compliance requirements make cross-border crypto payments a regulatory minefield They are right about every single one of those problems What they miss: every one of those problems was solved, badly, by the incumbents they're defending

They miss the fastest-growing category of labor on earth: skilled, global, unaffiliated, and currently underserved by every piece of infrastructure they touch Building for that person is not a niche It is the next economy, running ahead of the numbers.

The oil price doesn't move for that person But that person is doing the work The economic indicators we inherited were built to measure economies shaped like the 20th century

Protected by nothing No contract that holds across a border, no reputation that transfers when the platform changes its terms, no payment that arrives without a 7 percent conversion toll and a four-day wait The strong jobs number doesn't count that person

@WatchGorillaSci @WillieSoon8 @HeartlandInst @CO2Coalition You can only pick one.

Earth's Temperature History For Dummies! @WillieSoon8 @HeartlandInst @CO2Coalition

That is the whole job That has always been the whole job.

They think that's the cost of being independent None of it was nature All of it was infrastructure scarcity wearing the costume of economics When the infrastructure changes, the toll doesn't automatically fall Someone has to build the road that doesn't have a booth on it

Workers in the early 20th century paid a third of their wages to the company that owned the housing, the store, and the payroll system They thought that was the cost of working Freelancers today pay 20 percent of every invoice to the platform that found them the client

Build the infrastructure differently and the map rewrites itself.

What changes when trust lives on a ledger that belongs to no one? What changes when the reputation follows the person, not the platform? The geography of talent was always an artifact of where trust infrastructure happened to exist

Payment crossed borders slowly and expensively, if at all So talent clustered Near the clients Near the agencies that knew the clients Near the cities that had both Geography wasn't just preference — it was the infrastructure of trust

The structure is always the same: a chokepoint appears, someone builds a toll booth on it, the toll booth gradually becomes more expensive than the thing it enables The only durable correction to a chokepoint is a network that doesn't have one.

Then it changes the algorithm Then it favors its own preferred suppliers Then it enters the market itself, competing with the people who built their livelihood on its rails This is not a technology story This is Roman tax farming This is the Company Store