Ben Lade

@MervVissa1985 @rationalaussie We won't need printers soon. Leapfroging technology

@rationalaussie Tried to use a Bluetooth printer yesterday, I'm not worried about AI

If you listen to rich people on tech/economic podcasts these days, look at their facial expressions and tone when they talk about AI, macro and what's going on in the world. They speak about it with a very uneasy look on their face now. It's hard to describe, but if you've watched guys like Ray Dalio, or Bryan Johnson, or tech CEOs pre-2020 and compare it to now it's vastly different. This uneasiness can be attributed to what they all know but fear they cannot say truthfully to the public: The world is about to change so profoundly that none of the existing systems humans have built will survive. They all know this. They're just not telling you out loud because they fear that telling you would make it a self fulfilling prophecy. Anyone that's even spend a cursory amount of time thinking about the interaction of AI with how the current financial system is structured knows it's like two waves of a tsunami colliding. You cannot have a debt based monetary system which requires exponentially increasing piles of debt to merely function, against the biggest deflationary technology the world has ever seen... All the humans become redundant and the debt becomes unpayable. Followed thereafter by immense social unrest. I'm telling you this because it's obvious. They know it's obvious, they're just not saying it out loud. Systemic change is coming - for everything.

@PunterJeff Real-estate is about to get orange pilled by @GrantCardone

Went to a brunch today. Had a guy in his late 20’s unprovoked trying to convince me that Real Estate is the best way to establish generational wealth I discussed risks & landscape, and was completely ignored Still very early 🟩👆🏼

@_geniusDave @gammichan

@gammichan Wtf are they even saying just a bunch of chilled dudes

people think KOLs are all in secret cabal chats where they conspire to dump on you but really it's just this

@BTC_for_Freedom @armyofnunn0 Oracle AWS (ethereum) Twitter Facebook Blackrock Bill Gates fund Quantum fund Winners are picked, or they get the nock. Public private partnerships OSS runs everything 🤝

@armyofnunn0 They can just seize Microstrategy’s coins.

What if I told you that Microstrategy is CIA’s Bitcoin Treasury?

@scupytrooples @AriDavidPaul @ImperiumPaper @atjoe @nic_carter Not in fiat terms

@AriDavidPaul @ImperiumPaper @atjoe @nic_carter jumping in here… eventually everything being done by robots and ai will cause prices to trend towards zero as input costs do the same. we could have extreme abundance and hyper deflation happen simultaneously, which breaks my brain

everyone I know believes we have a few years max until the value of labor totally collapses and capital accretes to owners on a runaway loop - basically marx' worst nightmare/fantasy. this is the permanent underclass thing. and everyone I know subscribes to it

@crypto_condom @AriDavidPaul @ImperiumPaper @atjoe @nic_carter At the same time I'm seeing a doctor get into sales, sales people getting fired and moving to service, engineer becoming contractor, contractor becoming employee, tech fighting for lower wages, realtors and brokers finding side gigs, low level employees becoming unemployable.

Can corroborate with avi on this. In a specialized healthcare field, i've been offered up to 40% of my existing salary to move to a new location. Jobs which are highly technical and not easily replacable are seeing wage increases that far exceed cost of living while menial/replaceable jobs like graphic design/marketing are being phased out for 90% less workforce in favor of AI

@gammichan L1s should be renamed L2s because it all runs on #chainlink There can only be one L1.

What's crazy is we've been saying this since CCIP was announced in 2021 but the narratives are only clicking for people now that price action is good. Price really is the best narrative.

@MartyBent @profstonge Can I get this on YouTube for the boomers?

@profstonge Thanks, Peter!

This ad cost us ~$100 in tokens across Claude/ChatGPT/Veo3 + 20 hours of labor. It has over 1.2m+ impressions in less than 48 hours and our followers on X went from 2.8k to 7k over the same period. AI applied to storytelling is a powerful tool for companies.

@AriDavidPaul @haralabob @chamath Wife has 2 friends just announce their pregnant. And 2 more I think are primed. All single. Early 40s. 1 owns house has savings. 1 getting divorced, 100k in savings. 2 renting, no retirement plan. Mother nature's programming kicks in, contagious. Cultural hard reset begins

Agreed. What actually happened was that we stopped valuing having a family and instead became hyper focused on individual goals. The myriad books, courses, content, slogans over the past 50 years all reinforced the same incentive: your fulfillment is largely from professional endeavors so double down and lean in. The byproduct was that having a family became secondary and conveyed less status. Unless we dismantle these laggard ideas and find incentives to celebrate and elevate family formation, our birthrates will continue to fall.

@WalshSRCM @TFTC21 Public companies. Nobody cares. The people making decisions can get huge payouts.

@TFTC21 What’s retarded about this? The assumption that these companies are just gonna sell themselves for less than cash

Strive CEO reveals plan to buy public companies trading below net cash. Then convert their treasuries into #Bitcoin. “This is a multibillion-dollar opportunity.”

@PeterMcCormack House prices went up due to inflation, which is a tax on labor. The government that stole wealth from wage earners redistributed it among asset owners. This would be returning stolen wealth.

Translates: “I want other people’s stuff.”

@kreplacMuckword @VladTheInflator Just remove the money printers, and governments would have limitations and accountability. Starting point.

@VladTheInflator I’d like to believe that, just like I’d like to believe that democracy doesn’t just devolve into a shittier version of aristocracy, minus the noblesse oblige and with an uncanny ability to dodge the guillotine, bc ultimately no one is at fault.

GenZ hates the system, but they don't understand we DO NOT have capitalism. We have corporatism/cronyism. If we had capitalism, the banks would have all gone tits up in 2008, all the people you think are rich would be broke, home prices would be affordable and you would be making a higher wage with lower taxes.

@PeterMcCormack 3rd is regulation, buisness consolidation, barriers to entry, crony protection rackets. 4th taxation/inflation, take what's left, and bleed out the nation before slaughter. This final step is destroying your businesses. THEY want us to blame each other. End fiat End usury

@PeterMcCormack You've become emotional because it is affecting you now. Gov. transfers everything up and lays waste starting at the bottom. 1st stagnate wages for 20 yrs, labor stops benefiting from crony capitalism. 2nd financialize the economy, wealth is now being extracted from labor

A wealth tax is a success tax. The left hates success.

@miriti71 @mlh496 @PeterMcCormack Risked? 40 years of up only. They get bailed out of every market pullback, and the bankers turn off the money printers right before wages start to rise after assets and cost of living pump. Buisness cycles under Central Banking are wealth transfer cycles.

@mlh496 @PeterMcCormack The wealth they have risked capital to build.

We don’t thank the rich enough: - They literally pay for everything. Top 10% = 60% of tax. - They create the jobs - They take nothing back - They fund innovation, philanthropy, startups, schools - They risk capital, time, and reputation Find a rich person today and thank them.

@grok @Maag8484 @RaoulGMI @grok, why did you assume fewer people working leads to increased deficit spending. And not that deficit spending causes inflation and the rising costs of living disincentives people to work?

The chart shows a declining US Labor Force Participation Rate since 2000, alongside rising US Government Debt as a percentage of GDP. This suggests that as fewer people work, governments may borrow more to fund programs, potentially increasing debt. Aging populations, like retiring baby boomers, drive this trend by reducing workforce participation, which can lower tax revenues and raise social spending. However, policies like immigration, raising retirement ages, or improving productivity could offset this without increasing debt. Economic cycles and policy choices also influence these trends, and their effectiveness varies. grok.com

Over time, due to aging demographics, governments need to borrow more money to support GDP growth to pay interest on the debt. At over 100% of GDP in debt there isn't enough economic cash flow to fund the debt growth so it gets "printed" via Fed Net Liquidity and also forced, via regulation, onto the balance sheet of the banks. That debases the currency and lowers the denominator, optically making scarce assets more valuable. Crypto (Mainly Bitcoin) is the life raft as it not only offsets the annual 8% debasement but also gains value due to adoption effects. These two charts remain the most important chart in all macro and the ones the least people understand. It's all demographics. It always has been

@HodlMagoo @Pledditor @jackmallers @saylor @joerogan Bukele

@Pledditor @jackmallers @saylor @joerogan

I’d much rather see @jackmallers than @saylor on @joerogan talking about Bitcoin.

@adamscochran @TheFlowHorse Super gay

Nah sorry man, going to call bs on this. You may have had different political views than Harris on some, or even many things. But she was a stable politician, who had made an effort to engage cross aisle, was pivoting to center and most importantly cared about US policy. That’s not even in the same category, as abandoning allies, calling for the annexation of Greenland, starting trade wars with Canada and threatening to invade them, parroting Russian propaganda, all while letting Elon over zealously cut programs he doesn’t have a clue about. Could there have been better candidates on the left? Sure. Would I have considered a vote on the right for any classic Republican? Absolutely. But the choice was between “B- results that you don’t agree with but are stable and that you can maybe reason with” and “literal clusterfuck” Not comparable. Respect you, respect you being willing to gripe Trump, and agree Harris had plenty of negatives. But just cannot agree with something this up as “both sides equal” this time around. 🤷‍♂️

Let’s just be honest, anyone with a brain knows we had no great options, just a different version of poop to pick from.

@Yodaskk @CryptoHayes Anyone left talking about trying to generate wealth for the community is just looking for exit liquidity. The shitcoin grift is over.

@CryptoHayes They don't want to generate wealth, they just want to dump on everyone

To all you shitcoin founders about to TGE. Work with your market makers and exchange partners to open the market at lower prices. This chart is ugly not cause the project is dogshit but bc the price is too damn high. Bring your users on a wealth generation journey with you.

@Mitch9896 @TruckPump Squiggly lines on popcat chart please sir

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