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@brivael Maybe one of the stupidest “clever” tweets I’ve ever seen.

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

@PippaCrerar Just a typo here I think you meant tax contribution ?

NEW: Rachel Reeves tells MPs she is meeting with North Sea industry leaders tomorrow to discuss “the implications that they face and work with them to manage this uncertain period”. Will prompt speculation that there could be movement on their tax burden.

#GlazersOut #INEOSOut #SirJimClown

@TheRabbitHole @elonmusk Even if it is a lie . Which I think your arm movement was super unnatural by the way. Why you so bothered about liars ? You lie all the time . You literally lied about how good you are at a video game. That’s how much you lie . Kind of dumb to be so mad at others .

Either both of these are Nazi salutes or neither of them are. Standards should be consistent.

@beckcpo @RepPressley Exactly let’s use this chance while we have it to get justice for us not protect them right or left. Fuck em .

@RepPressley How many documents have the Democrats released?

Trump thinks complying with the law means releasing entirely redacted Epstein files like this. This is a brazen cover up and deeply disrespectful to survivors. Pam Bondi must release ALL the files NOW.

@PatriotMomUSA @RepPressley It’s terrible arrest all of them who think the rest of the world belongs to them. This isn’t right vs left . It’s haves vs not haves.

@RepPressley What about Bill Clinton? What is your opinion on that?

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@DesireeAmerica4 @elonmusk not bothered because he isn’t black

Stillwater teen Jesse Butler walks free after multiple rape charges, zero jail time. Jesse Butler will serve no jail time. Not a day. Not a weekend. Nothing. Just counseling, curfews, community service, and supervision until he turns 19. This week’s final sentencing paperwork dropped, and that’s why the entire internet snapped at once. Because the newly surfaced details show exactly what he did: – Multiple rapes – Strangulation – Two victims – Recorded evidence – Prior protective-order violation And after all that, he walked out of court adjusting his cuffs like he was late to brunch. Prosecutors originally sought 78 years. Then the judge reclassified him as a “youthful offender” a judge with documented ties to his family. The question remains: why did power protect violence in this situation?

Gary Stevenson did maths at the LSE (anyone familiar with that knows it’s serious) He was a trader with Citibank in multiple countries. He has an MPhil in economics from Oxford. Issue for Stewart is: he’s a working class guy with a million followers on Instagram & YouTube.

@garyseconomics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK I see you have had chance to tweet that farmers shouldn’t pay inheritance tax . Where is the redaction ?

.@RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret

@Artemisfornow The real problem here is why have wages been suppressed to such an extent that the govt has had to pay people who work benefits.

Ok I don’t like to pick on individual people but since this is a newspaper article today, I want to comment. This woman is earning more than MPs and her job plus huge benefit payments mean she is earning the equivalent of £113,000 a year! A take home pay of £6,000 a month. We are building a society where people feel ‘entitled’ to live a lifestyle of high earners. I’m glad she has a job but we should not be supporting her to levels beyond that of 80% of the population. Our values, understanding of fairness and equality are totally skewed. You are entitled to the same opportunities but not the same outcomes! We cannot go on like this.

@grok @RupertLowe10 Yeah @RupertLowe10 I’m sick of it. You are a traitor to your country for sowing this division. When you know the real problem

Based on recent estimates from sources like the Migration Observatory and OBR, the net fiscal cost of immigration to the UK varies: non-EEA migrants showed a £9B annual net cost in 2016/17, while overall migration can be net positive long-term (e.g., reducing deficits). For offshore tax losses, Tax Justice Network estimates £22B (USD $28B) annual UK revenue loss from evasion; HMRC's total tax gap is £46.8B, with evasion at £5.5B (possibly underestimated). Offshore losses appear higher in most analyses.

A miserable Monday morning. Millions of Brits are dashing around on the school run to get the children ready and to school on time, then off to work for another busy week creating wealth, building opportunities and actually contributing to the economy. Maybe feeling a bit under the weather, definitely not looking forward to the endless traffic which seemingly gets worse every Monday - especially considering how councils how decided to dig up exactly the wrong road at exactly the wrong time of year. Never any workmen around on these council projects, are there? Get wet through in the rain, then straight off to work. As always. The endless slog. It doesn't get any easier, does it? But remember - always remember who you are doing this for. Who we are all supporting through these important tax rises... The illegal migrants, sitting in fancy warm hotels tucking into their fry ups at our expense. They couldn't go without the newest iPhone now, could they? We wouldn't want them feeling at all uncomfortable. I say give them a tent and a bowl of porridge until we can turf them all out... The lazy and indolent, who can't be bothered to do the same as us so they sit on benefits doing absolutely sod all. Drop the kids off at school, then back home for a cup of tea and some daytime TV. Get that dressing gown on. Just brilliant. The foreign families, who rock up on our shores and can immediately live an easy life thanks to the British taxpayer - having more and more children which Brits can't afford. That Somalian family, with eight kids, who now sit on a small fortune every month thanks to lifting the two child cap. Translation at the DWP of course provided, at our expense. Billions in foreign aid, paying for motorways in South America or nonsense DEI projects in Africa. Don't exactly love paying for that, to be honest. But don't forget the pay rises for our vast managerial civil service bureaucracy. I bet they're working from home today. Probably on some experimental four day week, actually. No such luck in the private sector... So yes, please do remember who you're doing it all for. Illegals, lazy foreigners, the indolent, and the work-shy bureaucrats. I am absolutely sick of it all, to be honest. Aren't you?

@eurofounder None of this happened

Witnessed something incredible at the Amsterdam train station yesterday Fat and loud American tourist was trying to buy a water bottle for €4.50 Threw a €5 bill on the counter and started walking away ""Keep the change man" said in a typical annoying Californian accent "We don't do tips here. This isn't America" cashier responded The American tried to leave again but luckily security blocked the exit "You didn't get your receipt for tax purposes" "What?" Store manager appeared with a form "Did you attempt to give our cashier extra money?" "That's unreported income. He has to declare it now. Pay social contributions. It becomes €0.24 after tax" The American was baffled "Bro but in the US—" "In the US, workers beg for tips because they're underpaid. Here, we pay living wages" manager swiftly interrupted him They made him take his €0.50 back and quickly filed an incident report for "attempted tax circumvention" This is what a properly functioning society looks like

@pranksy @houseofpranksy 😂

@InternetH0F @grok who is that what’s the story

Hope this love never finds me

@michaelhitack @ChipotleTweets Tbh the one on the left is disgusting . It’s an insane portion. I wouldn’t enjoy the one on the right much more it’s regular Portion

. @ChipotleTweets I ordered these burritos 15 minutes apart from the same store today. The one on the left I ordered in person and it’s twice the size as the one on the right (online order). My online order is always significantly smaller. Every time. Stop ripping us off.

@JonnyBones You will get the fight . He is just not giving you the money you asked for before. You made him look like a dick. Now he is just showing you his boss. Classic parenting of a spoiled dickhead child.

Despite the odds, I’m still training and optimistic about the possibility of being part of the White House event. At the end of the day, Dana is the boss and it’s his call whether I compete that night or not. I do know Dana was really excited about the fight, and the door hasn’t been completely closed. That’s all a guy like me really needs. It sounds like another awesome goal to be inspired by. Sometimes in life, we’re not going to reach everything we set out to do and that’s okay. But I like my chances… after all, one in a billion is exactly what it took to end up as Jon ‘Bones’ Jones in the first place.

@PattyShulmister @j_fishback Are you a bot ?

@j_fishback I am so sick of him holding back the interest rates. Something has to be done. It's not right that one man can keep the economy in chains.

Reporter: Do you ever feel sorry for Jerome Powell when Trump criticizes him? Me: "No, I don’t feel sorry for Jerome Powell. He’s worth over $200 million. Who I feel sorry for are the Americans who can’t get a mortgage because Powell refuses to lower interest rates from 20-year highs. I feel sorry that they can’t start a family or can’t grow their family because they can’t buy a home. I feel sad for the single mom in East Baltimore or Cincinnati who can’t get a credit card because Jerome Powell is trying to undermine the duly elected President of the United States."

@DeanoGorton @grok what happened after

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