Jim Smith

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.

An #OPP officer has died following a motorcycle crash on Highway 401 eastbound near County Road 18 in #Cobourg. The male officer was pronounced dead on scene. Three other officers were transported to hospital with minor injuries after they crashed while responding to the scene. Both directions closed for @OPP_CR investigation. @OPPCommissioner

Hear me out here - MULTIPLE high speed rail lines. Have them running to East/West coasts. But make them underground. And shape them like a tube. And don't put trains or people in them - put crude and nat gas in the fucking things

Looking for a used Schnell Industries planter hitch. For a John Deere 1790 planter. Retweets are appreciated. 705 879 7460

@ToyotaCanada My daughter traded her brand new 2025 Tacoma for a GM. How many months should it take to fix a guidance/sound system? She will quite likely never buy another Toyota. Don't ask for a DM. Race had their chance.

@ToyotaCanada 23 y/o daughter bought new 25 Tacoma from Race LIndsay. 1 month in radio doesn't work. Been to Race twice. Cannot fix. POS loaners. Why would you treat a potential long term customer so poorly?

Remember: all firearms in Canada are already banned - in the sense that nobody may own a firearm without the appropriate license. So when the Liberals impose a firearm ban - they are, by definition, not going after unlicensed individuals and criminals - who are already barred from acquiring and owning these firearms. They are ONLY going after Canada's 2,500,000 licensed owners - in the face of decades of data showing that licensed owners and legal firearms are not a risk to public safety. We also now have 5+ years of data showing no crime at all being committed with firearms banned since May 1 2020. Doesn't sound like anything worth spending $1-6 billion dollars on, does it. In reality - this is all political theatre to appease small special interest groups.

Farm accountant satisfied

@GasPriceWizard Canada used to build Aircraft Carriers and the planes that flew off their decks, we built a railroad 8000km long in 4 years through mountains. Now we can't build a street car in 14 years. Elbows up.

The Canadian government hates its own citizens.

Téa Johansson a high school student understands “climate” more than Guilbeault & the rest of eco insane within our Government. Do you think Carney will look up to her like he did Greta? This is a must watch & share.

Bro is living my childhood dream

Dear @JustinTrudeau Hello, it's me yet again. I'll get straight to it. I am completely mesmerized by your confirmational bias and psychological triggers that make you the way you are. I can't for the life of me understand how you can function as a human being, let alone as the leader of a country, in the face of intense daily scorn, criticism and outright hatred to you. And not JUST you, but everything about you. Your arrogance, your dismissive remarks to ALL things not about you, the words you use, the ideas you have, the very air you breathe.... You don't have the good sense God gave a tapeworm. If you did, you would have recognized that your self-centered, self-directed focus on your personal ideology and dystopian vision for this country is not shared by those you rule over. We never agreed to sacrifice our standard of living for your pursuit of hysteria-induced green dreams. We never agreed to sacrifice our capacity to feed our families in your pursuit of carbon taxing the snot out of every single vendor, producer, seller, or transporter of our entire food chain. We never agreed to sacrifice our taxpayer funded govt services in your grossly incompetent pursuit of importing every downtrodden human and funding their every need with nothing given back to the fabric of Canada in return. We most definitely never agreed to sacrifice our children's future in your relentlessly misguided pursuit of funding Ukraine's war, leaving us without critical funding for vital services and developments and homes as you borrow money to give away, leaving us without even a sniff of a dollar. We absolutely did not agree to sacrifice our country in your pursuit of trying to completely change this country into something it will never be, and something NOBODY asked for. With all that said... Just how in the fuck do you get up every morning, look in the mirror knowing the majority of 40 million Canadians hate every fibre of your being, and think to yourself that we want ANYTHING from you? The one thing we do want, you refuse to give us, because it will force you to lose the biggest race of your life in a global humiliation, as you have single handedly destroyed the career paths of most of your caucus...in your selfish pursuit of yourself. You are a disaster. You are too self-absorbed to admit defeat. And in your selfish bubble, you have destroyed the liberal brand and all it represents. A REAL leader wouldn't be able to look at themselves in the mirror every day, knowing the people he purports to serve are suffering so badly because of decisions and actions made by him. A REAL leader would be mortified at derailing so many careers of those who have supported him so loyally, because he needs to feel vindicated. A REAL leader, would recognize that at this point, he has no mandate to lead, no unity in his party, no faith from the populace, and no moral authority to direct a flatulence band at a bean supper. The only person left on this chaotic spinning earth who still believes you have the will of the people backing your failed leadership... is you. And maybe your mom, but we will never know because mom's have to tell their kids they believe in them no matter how spectacularly their children fail at something. How else do you think you became who you are? Your mommy called you special, and you believed her. We, sadly, do not believe in you any longer, and your messianic belief that you alone can lead Canada, is proof positive you are in it for you and not the people of Canada. And if you don't like these words, I invite you to change my mind. Convince me. Make me believe only you know the way. Millions of Canadians agree with me. Your time to depart has come. It's time you parked your messianic complex & embraced for a dunce cap, reality it is YOU we detest, and NOTHING you can say or do will change that. If you're taking any walks in the snow this holiday season, take some snowshoes and make it a LONG walk.

Criminals did not get your message. Our communities are experiencing a 45% increase in shootings and a 62% increase in gun-related homicides compared to this time last year. What difference does your handgun ban make when 85% of guns seized by our members can be sourced to the United States? Your statement is out of touch and offensive to victims of crime and police officers everywhere. Whatever you think you’ve done to improve community safety, has not worked. @JustinTrudeau

Finally the Bank of Canada admits that @PierrePoilievre and Common Sense Conservatives are right. When you tax the farmer who grows the food, the truck driver who ships the food, and the store who sells the food, you tax the Canadian who buys the food. Justin Trudeau's Carbon Tax Scam makes the cost of everything go up and his Job Killing Capital Gains Tax makes it expensive for farmers to continue producing the food that feeds the world. He is not worth the cost. Axe the Tax to bring home lower grocery prices and stop punishing the success and hard work of Canadian farmers.

I have seen 3 bears in fertilizer spreading travels today. 0 turkeys unless you count the idiot drivers on Hwy 7. Saw 3 of them also.

nationalpost.com/news/canada/re… Very sad. He was a brilliant man.

April 2nd: I’ve seen a lot of posts explaining why the cost of things will increase, and how it starts with us Farmers. I’d like to educate you as to how it works as a Farmer: I DO NOT GET TO PASS THE COST OF THE CARBON TAX ON TO YOU, THE CONSUMER. So when you’re wondering why you can’t afford things, you can thank all the middle men and the government for the increase in your groceries and products, because they passed the carbon tax down to you. When us farmers pay carbon tax on drying or heating, we get to absorb that cost with no way to recoup. When I sell my canola to an elevator, I do not get to add a carbon tax onto it, and it’s absolutely not calculated into my pricing that is set out by the elevator. I think it’s absolutely fantastic that people are waking up and speaking out, but we need to get the facts correct first. AGRICULTURE DOES NOT GET TO PASS DOWN THE CARBON TAX.