Anton Frattaroli

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Anton Frattaroli

Anton Frattaroli

@RealFrattaro

Software architect

Grand Rapids, MI Katılım Mart 2025
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
Finally wrote up my healthcare fix: a Bayesian Medical Guidance System (BMGS) delivered through pharmacies. Handles 70–80% of routine care safely, cheaply, immediately. Have @Walmart pilot this in Idaho and scale. Here’s the full proposal: open.substack.com/pub/frattaro/p…
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
I think that if they had mass paper production and double-entry accounting, and a couple nerdy leaders (like Coke of Norfolk and Farmer King George) they might have been able to industrialize. In 300 years, they'll say: if they understood how currency systems worked, they might have been able to create a sustainable civilization
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Balaji@balajis·
Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did eventually come all the way back. It just took one thousand years.
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil

Sneak peak of a small handful of the evidence from my forthcoming manuscript (summary coming to @palladiummag!) on how there's A LOT of quantitative evidence for the European Dark Ages. There are so many more graphs than these ^^

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E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.@RealEJAntoni·
New record for the national debt: $39.0712 trillion
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Aubrey@gasstationALE·
I'm going to kill myself in real life if I keep having to read this discourse fuck
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Ven@edgefills

Agree with this, younger gen food spending habits are pretty absurd in comparison. It’s just supply and demand — there wouldn’t be so many good restaurants if consumption habits hadn’t changed dramatically. Just look at Cracker Barrel’s downward spiral, what could they possibly do to compete with modern kitchens? Delivery is mostly unfathomable to me (as I’ve ranted about many times), and if you’re not working very long hours at a glued-to-your-desk job, I don’t see why advice to save money preparing food is so controversial, especially with how prevalent meal prep culture is. One can admit that going out for lunch to take a break from a screen job is a sort of luxury without having to apologize for things. It’s genuinely nice to eat prepared food and get out of the office, but it isn’t anywhere close to necessary spending.

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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
@BrianRoemmele nothing interesting in the video happened in 1955. In 1950 salaries look like they dropped but that was because it switches data sources from the IRS (back when poor people didn't file) to the SSA's average wage index.
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
The rising American Dream. What happened in 1955 and 1971?!
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
I'm sure those sky scrapers are filled with people who migrated from high-fertility rural areas to low-fertility cities in search of a better life. Then they find out it's expensive to live in a city compared to the wages, even though they're much higher compared to rural wages. And marriage, children, get sidelined.
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Michael A. Arouet
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet·
This is eye-opening. Aren’t we shown countless videos of beautiful illuminated skyscrapers? What if they are simply empty, and record youth unemployment makes it really tough for young people to start families? No marriages, no children. It’s really that simple.
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Manlet Thorin
Manlet Thorin@ManletThorin·
@zeltima Darh Nihilus who is a nihilist Darth Traya who betrays you
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Manlet Thorin
Manlet Thorin@ManletThorin·
What was his problem anyway?
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Michael A. Arouet
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet·
That's eye-opening. Yes, many new jobs are created in the US, but unfortunately not in the productive sectors. An economy based on services with a weak manufacturing base cannot stay the global leader forever. Weren’t tariffs supposed to bring manufacturing back to the US?
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
@pipermcq @simongerman600 I already said nobody can know what the correct amount is. No one's going to agree on it, and it won't make a difference in overall trends.
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pipermcq
pipermcq@pipermcq·
@RealFrattaro @simongerman600 Tax rates on every taxpayer “went down” from historic 1950’s post-war levels. But it is an irrelevancy being used to propagandize. No taxpayer paid that rate—they “sheltered” income to avoid it. And my question, which you’re ducking, is the one that matters. How much is “enough?
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
I didn't say anyone was poor. The point of my tweet is to add nuance: NYT: tax rate on rich went down commenters: they pay more in taxes overall me: we'd expect that because their income grew faster and I said I don't like arguing price - what's the "correct" amount? nobody can know that
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pipermcq
pipermcq@pipermcq·
@RealFrattaro @simongerman600 You prove my point—why does it matter to you that Musk builds rockets, or that Bezos has a yacht? That they are wealthy does not make you, or anyone else, poor. The “income disparity” canard is designed to make you envy their wealth, and want to take it. No thanks.
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
Income disparity isn’t a uniquely "leftist canard" - it’s just a measurable thing that exists. Are you saying that there's no meaningful difference in income? In that case, I'm not sure why you'd compare me to Elon. Sure, we have cheaper consumer goods than ever. But I don’t see many people juggling mega-yachts, rocket companies, and media acquisitions.
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pipermcq@pipermcq·
@RealFrattaro @simongerman600 “Income disparity” is another leftist canard that doesn’t hold up to analysis. At no time in human history have people who are classified as “poor” or “middle class” had as many trappings of wealth as they do now. That Elon Musk is a trillionaire is not why you’re broke, Anton.
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
>$49T in retirement assets (household 401ks/IRAs/pensions) would disagree. Corporations don't retire. Pension funds need their 7% actuarial returns. The system has current participants inflate assets while raising barriers for the next generation: housing lock-in, soaring education, healthcare costs. That's self-sabotage in delayed fertility
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Louis R Woodhill
Louis R Woodhill@LouisWoodhill·
@RealFrattaro @simongerman600 GDP (really, GDI, but the two are very close) is split between capital and labor. Corporate profits are a proxy for capital's share of GDP. The suppliers of capital would be content with lower returns if the risks created by unstable money were eliminated.
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Steep Proper ☕️
Steep Proper ☕️@shoe_magic·
While we can't be certain what country Anton is speaking of, but in America there is a progressive tax system where the greater the income, the greater the tax. In America, higher income earners do NOT have lower tax rates as Anton stated. It's actually quite the opposite...the highest federal income tax bracket in America is 37% and it comes into play when an earner surpasses $640,600 in income in that tax year.
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Anton Frattaroli
Anton Frattaroli@RealFrattaro·
Your charts show corporate profits. This thread is about individual income. Post-2001 spike is China WTO + globalization boosting margins via cheap inputs. Capital isn't scarce with a high risk premium. In fiat world, it's created on demand via debt/credit whenever yield appears. Pros hedge any vol trivially: rehypothecate USTs, lever into MBS carry, derivatives neutralize the rest. Post-2008, the real shift: CBs backstop everything with unlimited liquidity. Most robust system ever. No price crashes allowed. Distortions just move to quantities: frozen housing turnover (rate lock-in killed sales/mobility), lower fertility, zombie firms. Monetary system is the problem, but not via your risk-premium-to-labor-transfer story. It's elastic capital + perpetual put leading to misallocation hidden in volumes, not prices.
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Louis R Woodhill
Louis R Woodhill@LouisWoodhill·
@RealFrattaro @simongerman600 Unstable money has raised the cost of, and return on capital, thus slowing growth and transferring income from labor to capital. Stabilize the dollar and this effect will unwind.
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Short Term Charisma
Short Term Charisma@ShortTermChrsma·
@RealFrattaro @simongerman600 High income earners do not have a lower rate compared to others. Top rate is 37%. Top 1% pay the vast majority of taxes and the bottom 50% pay nearly nothing.
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