Hythragon

Extreme bureaucratic regulatory oppression and wealth confiscation (moving capital allocation from highly competent entrepreneurs to incompetent government) is why Europe has been economically slowly strangled over the past few decades! Fools like this guy do not understand that they are the cause of Europe’s pain. There no wealth to reallocate when they prevent it from being created in the first place.

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why not just raise income tax rates? because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”. you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens. you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.) the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen. the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure. it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking. that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all. i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%. want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes. want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

"Slowly at first, then all at once"

Expansion of operations without a safety driver/monitor outside Austin will be slow at first, but robotaxi miles driven will increase exponentially, making it easier to get regulatory approval from one jurisdiction to the next.

With Tesla extending its Robotaxi service to everyone (no longer requiring an invite), it demonstrates confidence in removing the safety monitor soon.

i strongly disagree. imagine: someone is working for $15/hr in a bicycle shop in san jose. they aspire to one day create their own bicycle company, selling custom bikes to customers. but how? today they don't have the labor pool, startup capital, or capabilities. tomorrow, the miracle of technological progress emerges... 2 robots can be purchased for $20k, setup in this person's garage. and used to build bicycles 24/7 on demand, AI is used to create a website and ordering system. and customers place orders online. now, this worker owns and runs his own highly profitable business. an economic miracle. unleashed by technology. a few years ago, i visited a farm in western australia. this guy used to be a field worker, he saved up and bought some large automated farm equipment and today he singlehandedly owns and farms 10k acres. his quality of life and the prosperity of his family ballooned. an economic miracle. unleashed by technology. today, millions of individuals make a living selling goods online, working their own hours, while feeling more fulfilled. if not for ebay, amazon stores, shopify, etsy, these individuals would not have been able to create their own businesses and improve their own living conditions. an economic miracle. unleashed by technology. taxing and burdening the creation of those online stores would have destroyed that opportunity and all those individuals would be worse off. in the same vein, and to directly address your original example, instead of working for a video game company, AI will now let artists create their own video games and run their own studios. they don't need to be employed by someone else's studio or big company. AI gives them all the tools they need. if a studio "replaces artists" with AI, those artists will now be able to compete with the studio, eroding the studio's profits away, while increasing the quality and quantity of video games in the market. consumers win and artists make more money. these economic miracles play out every day in free markets, unburdened by the government's intervention. as soon as the govt creates "taxes on automation", it shackles workers to old jobs. automation IS opportunity. it is leverage for the individual, not just profiteering for the corporation. at this very moment, i believe elected officials who are looking to get re-elected are finding emotional resonance with voters by proclaiming job loss and doom emergent are due to the AI miracle underway. the reason the message of AI doom and billionaire blame is so resonant is because cost of living has exploded in the United States. ironically, i'd strongly argue, the current high cost of living is due, exclusively, to excess government spending. by creating govt programs to give people "access" to food, housing, education, and healthcare, elected officials have inadvertently inflated the cost of food, housing, education, and healthcare. if there is an obligation to buy, the seller (food company, home builder, education institution, and drug company) will be incentivized to charge ever-higher prices. and here we are with record high prices for everything. i would urge you to make your existing government programs more accountable and eliminate those that aren't meeting their core social objectives, before trying to launch new ones. rightsize spending to ensure govt programs are net deflationary, rather than inflationary. this would actually help people in need. and i will tell you one thing that will certainly be deflationary to the cost of living in the US - automation. let's pls not get in the way.

You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it becomes obvious that the path to prosperity for all is just let the makers make. Regarding Tesla, the reality is that I have been given nothing. However, if I lead Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world by far and it stays that way for 5 years, shareholders voted to award me 12% of what is built. Anyone who wants to come along for the ride can buy Tesla stock. If Tesla “merely” becomes a $1.999 trillion dollar company, I get nothing. This is a great deal for shareholders, which is why they voted so overwhelmingly to approve this, for which I am immensely grateful. And they did so by a margin far more than you won your political seat.

This is a general commentary on my timeline — the executive assassination, sex with 100 guys at once, politicians justifying murder, people dying from lack of access to health care, innumerate arguments from people who should be smarter than that, political views with religious-level devotion, anti-capitalism, public school principals trafficking students . . . My goodness! The world will make a lot more sense to you once you accept that evil is a real force. Not only that, but evil likes to disguise itself as “good.” You really do need to discern and think for yourself in this lifetime. It’s never too late to stop automatically going along with fashionable ideas and start thinking for yourself. Having been a stock analyst really helped me hone this skill. Because I was challenged by smart people, and I equally challenged them, and the price of being wrong is we all lost money. Also, I love building wealth as much as anyone, but I’ve always told my teams that any dollar that cannot be earned honestly is not a dollar worth earning. Your soul matters most. It does you no good to gain the world at the expense of your soul. Pendulums swing and it’s OK to bend in the breeze so you don’t break, but you must stay rooted in goodness. In a world of lies, craziness, sickness and ugliness, resolve to be transparent, brave, strong and loving. Try to shine a light within your sphere of influence, and teach the next generation good values! Saving lives is good, actually. Murder is bad, actually. Saving sex for your loving relationship is good, actually. Theft is bad, actually. And so on. Be brave. Speak up. Iron sharpens iron.