Joshua Miller

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Joshua Miller

@KarlMarxPoppy

Open Society & Reindustrialization advocate Owner https://t.co/tVIBvEG2Gj https://t.co/CDWcYBcHS7 Master in Fine Arts https://t.co/23uBMqWO2c

København, DK Katılım Eylül 2023

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·4h

@nincopoops @jeftovic Direct quote of Jesus. And generally considered an important verse. Matthew 19:21 (NIV): Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me"

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Adrian F. R.@nincopoops·8h

@KarlMarxPoppy @jeftovic The main tenet of Christianity is not to “sell all your possessions”. Actually that is not a tenet at all. Nowhere to be found in the Bible. In the other hand the main tenet of communism is to take from someone else.

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Mark E. Jeftovic@jeftovic·1d

If you’re a socialist/marxist/collectivist and you aren’t pooling all of your assets with all of the other socialist/marxists you know and dividing it equally - you’re basically proving every day that it doesn’t work.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·7h

@DabsMalone They made our shop better, and had a reasonable tiered warning system so we knew to make some improvements without dealing with full on audit. And this is in California.

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Dabs🩸@DabsMalone·9h

Is OSHA good or bad for the manufacturing industry in your opinion?🧐

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·12h

@srnorty @thomasforth In capitalism, new factories are built every day, without seizing other people’s factories.

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srnorty@srnorty·1d

The answer is because a new means of production can't be created ex nihilo, from nothing, but only by means of the existing means of production. (You can't create a factory without using other factories). Hence you need to seize the means of production before you can create the means of production.

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Tom Forth@thomasforth·1d

I loved this tweet, and I read as many replies as I could, and all of the quote tweets hoping that I'd get the answer --- because there is a really good answer --- and I didn't find the answer, so I'll put it here.

Uri Kurlianchik@VerminusM

Why is it always "seize the means of production" and never "create the means of production"?

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·1d

@wharbol62179 @zanehengsperger Clean simple 2025 website & socials, nothing extravagant. Pay for SEO to get leads. You need to be visible to local customers who are having CNC supply problems and looking for a shop. Be willing to do hard, low-volume work, but charge so it’s profitable.

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Cory VanderZwaag@wharbol62179·1d

Lets “say” I bought an old machine just outside of Grand Rapids, MI. We have a half ass website, a fading customer pool, a former burnt out owner, just laid another guy off last week, down to 4 guys (2 cnc, 1 assembler, and 1 in the office), we have 3 1999 haas cnc machines, one 2009 Haas St-30 turning center, and 8,000sqft leased space. How would you save the business? What would be the first three things you would do? I’m still young, humbled, and eager to learn but I’m spinning in circles right now.

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Zane Hengsperger@zanehengsperger·1d

Instead of buying a retiring machine shop. You can just start one. All you need is one machine, a garage, your laptop, and relentlessness.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·4d

@paulg Goodbye to AOC’s presidential run

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Paul Graham@paulg·5d

Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html

Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_

AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·5d

@caroljsroth The CEO has to produce 7% or greater YOY growth across the entire system or they are fired. The barista can typically underperform hiring expectations by 25% and still not be legally fired.

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Carol Roth@caroljsroth·6d

The CEO manages a $121 billion company with more than 41,000 stores in 80+ countries. A barista manages a cash register and/or a coffee machine, part-time on average. Both are important, but the scope of the activity is very different by an exponential amount.

daz@MetamateDaz

The Starbucks CEO made $97 million in 2024. The median Starbucks barista made $14,674. That's a 6,666/1 ratio. a barista would have to have started working 4,643 years before Jesus was born to earn what the CEO made in a single year.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·6d

@RichardHanania The outcome is that we’re still in the middle of it, therefor it’s too soon to establish an outcome.

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Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·5 May

Basically, the outcome of the war with Iran has been 1) Hormuz remains closed 2) The economy (stock market) is doing fine I didn't see anyone predicting this. People critical of Trump said Hormuz would stay closed and it would be a disaster. His defenders also assumed he needed to open it. Is the lesson just that markets are much more resilient than we think, and the AI boom is so powerful we can withstand anything?

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·6d

@Porkchop_EXP I think there is room for them, you see plenty of vacated small towns across Europe. The thing is that dense city life in Europe is a higher quality life than suburban sprawl. So there is more demand for city density

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Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·5 May

Why is it so hard for Americans to understand we simply DON’T HAVE SPACE in Europe?? American large homes are a function of space availability. Even poor people in the US live in large houses on huge properties because they are cheap. Check and compare our population density to the US ffs. Large homes like this exist in Europe but they cost 5x-7x what they cost in the US so of course only the ultra rich can afford them.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·6d

@andy_matuschak They’re also part of portfolios and losses from those unoccupied spaces, while not ideal, are utilized as losses for tax reduction.

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Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak·6d

In SF, many ground floor commercial spaces in new condo / apt buildings near me have been empty for 5-10+ years. Naively: why doesn't the market clear? If the asking rent is too high for any tenant, wouldn't a building owner prefer to accept a lower rent over decadal vacancy?

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·4 May

@grant_melson Or force the auto industry to produce and sell electric vehicles, or fight climate change

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Grant Melson, CFA@grant_melson·4 May

Can’t believe this guy’s goal is to hoard a $10T net worth. I would think with all that wealth, he would use it to help people more. Like ending deaths in car accidents, or providing affordable transport for everyone, or offering internet to isolated people groups or something.

Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

JUST IN: Elon Musk says his goal is to reach a $10 trillion net worth. "$10T or bust"

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·4 May

@CalebChamberla6 My parents made a lot of smart moves, growing multiple mfg businesses, selling one, etc. But they always told me the smartest move they did was buying the building they operated out of. Their big regret was not also buying the adjacent building when they could have.

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Caleb (OSH Cut)@CalebChamberla6·3 May

Counterpoint. You can spend $10 million to build a 100,000 sqft warehouse that produces no value on its own. Or with the same capital/leverage you can lease a warehouse and buy ten lasers that each produce $3000 / hr in revenue. What would you choose?

Mustafa@oprydai

get into debt if you must, but own a warehouse.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·3 May

@JacobAShell The “noble savage” logic is alive and well in most branches of academia. But it isn’t ever talked about.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·1 May

@seacelo79 @tradeoftruth @TheBirbNest @crypto_birb Oil has also gone from 45% of global power in 1965 to 32% today. The chart is attempting to assume efficiency gains that are partially owed to alternative power sources coming online (nuclear & renewable).

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Papa on Finance@seacelo79·1 May

@tradeoftruth @TheBirbNest @crypto_birb In inflation-adjusted terms, oil intensity likely declined by ~40-50% rather than the ~94% shown

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THE ₿IRB NEST@TheBirbNest·30 Nis

In 1965 the world needed 5.3 barrels of oil to produce every $1,000 of GDP. In 2024, its 0.3 barrels. The economy runs 94% more efficiently on oil than it did 60 years ago. So next time someone tells you rising crude in 2026 will crash the global economy like the 1970s Show them this chart. Does oil price still matter to your trading decisions in 2026? Drop your view 👇

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·30 Nis

@Mylovanov Is anyone the Allie is once was?

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Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov·29 Nis

Fiona Hill: The United States is no longer the ally it was before. We are living in a post-America world in which countries are searching for alternatives, regional orders, and new platforms for cooperation because Washington now swings wildly back and forth. 1/

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·30 Nis

@WarMonitor3 Nutella

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WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3·29 Nis

What is the biggest threat to Europe?

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·29 Nis

@condepalatino Great new, but how is this different from Trump? Maybe a different technical strategy, but ultimately economic policy to protect domestic critical industries. Policy to force industrialization. It doesn’t seem substantially different

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Rodrigo@condepalatino·28 Nis

China está cabreada con la UE y os voy a explicar la razón. La UE se ha dado cuenta, como EEUU, que el déficit comercial de bienes con China es extremo, y ha decidido actuar de un modo muy diferente a Trump 👇🏻

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·28 Nis

@ArthurMacwaters The last 110 years of America has been a success story, we achieved and maintained global hegemony. Is this a pro-tax argument?

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Arthur MacWaters@ArthurMacwaters·28 Nis

In 1913, only 1% of households filed income tax Now, 100% do. Every time a tax scheme is created, it starts with "just the rich" and quickly applies to everyone. Every time. California will seize assets of every citizen if this passes. Not income, assets. Your house. Your furniture. This would end the Golden State.

Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath

As you go to work today and settle into the week, please study the form below. You will soon need to fill this out EVERY year and tell the government what you own and then allow them to tell you how much its worth. That is the framework that is enabled by the Trojan Horse "Billionaire Tax" that is trying to get passed. Give them credit: they cleverly use Billionaires as the hook, but build in the language and the framework that will allow the Legislature to simply extend the tax to everyone and make it yearly. And this is where the form below comes in... In this case, ask yourself, will it be you or the Billionaires that will be able to fill this out properly and avoid penalties. As much as Billionaires can be pushed to do more for society, we all know that they have the infrastructure to manage these kinds of disclosures...middle class Californians do not and they will be the ones that get penalized in the end.

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Joshua Miller@KarlMarxPoppy·28 Nis

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