Aaditya Lanke

The Speed of Light is humanity's greatest defence in the Pursuit of Liberty. Not a constitution, not a movement but a hardcoded as a law of the universe. Here's why 🧵

@RishiJoeSanu Yup road to serfdom is essentially a warning about how central planning in economics eventually curbs social liberties too

The problem here is the state is central planning this function. Hayek's critique of central planning is not just limited to classic resource allocation.

Keep in mind there is also a chance that when you mandate Universal Healthcare with a falling fertility rate, the pressure on finances will eventually lead you to outlaw certain activities that may not be healthy. The UK's ban on smoking will be followed up with more measures in other nations. Because when you give the state the "the responsibility" to take care of society's health they will eventually start to cut cost whichever way they can and liberties may be also targeted

This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take. No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare. The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral. Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year. Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes. Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment. The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.” America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be. Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities. Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis. It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.

@DecentInd @r7onak Ironic but true even the local government in China might not have the legal jurisdictional authority and separation the way US or Indian states do but in practice they have a lot of power locally

You known what in CCP, 51% of the total government spending is controlled at the city level in China, whereas in India it is mere 3% This is a fallacy that China progressed due to a strong centralized government, it progressed due to strong Decentralisation The single most important lesson from China for India is Decentralisation

Lol, if decentralisation couldn't work in the financial system, hell will it work in governance. More to the Centre, be like CCP.

@DecentInd Agreed and I like how you went even below the State level which tends to also centralize too much in its own right

This is why we started this movement In China, 51% of the total government spending is controlled at the city level, 27% in the US, whereas in India it is mere 3% This makes India far more centralised than nearly all countries in the world We have to decentralise power back to the cities, we have to retain most taxes at the city level, we have to empower Municipal Corporations We will be fighting to make this happen, if you want the same Join the movement !

@Porkchop_EXP One of the best things of North America is the size of houses and property. I never understood why some would ditch that to live in a crammed apartment and a city. Living standards are so much better when you have more space

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.

@RishiJoeSanu Only when you have sustained economic growth and employment that brings the population out of farming and into manufacturing or services can a change happen. At 60% of the electorate you are kind of beholden regardless of left or right

No escape from farmers in India.

A lot of that capital should have gone into companies and risk taking ventures which actually lead to robust growth and a better society. When there is excessive investment in housing and gold, it's a sign of lower confidence in the economy. Lets hope that the confidence is restored

Canada spends more on “residential investment” than any other advanced nation. Here’s why being a real estate economy isn’t a winning position. Teaser: it’s costing us productivity and long term prosperity.

@RichardHanania I don't understand why his wealth should be considered a liability ? Strange times we live in

Racists rooting for a woman who locked them in their homes over Indian who agrees with them on most things just because he's Indian. Perfect example of why racism is a cancer.

@TheSeditionists @Noahpinion Given the correlation between GDP and most HDI factors as the disparity in growth lingers, very son the quality of life in Europe will dip below America. Not immediately, but if sustained over 10 years or so

@Noahpinion Quality of life > wealth. Americans are "richer" on paper but will never see any of that wealth. Have fun calling a $2000 ambulance!

Tired: Despite their excellent quality of life, Europeans are actually poorer than Americans Wired: British people are poorer than both Americans and Europeans, and have worse quality of life than either

@rushicrypto Some of the richest people in the world are engineers, its just that they have scaled operations to such a level that the value has been generated by providing necessary or desires goods/services to millions if not billions. Thats what capitalism rewards

If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, and scientists. If it rewarded talent, it would be artists, writers, and creators. If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers, and service workers. But it’s none of them.

@jeffcanadamson Without growing the pie you risk stasis which will always lead to zero sum mentalities and a generally poor state of affairs

There are around 5K-10K people in Canada that pay the equivalent in taxes of a combined 15.5M Canadians. Around $17bn in total, per year. It would be good for Canada if we doubled this number, not by increasing taxes, but by growing the whole pie. To do this, we need more many, many more entrepreneurs.

@RichardHanania Yeah and if we really think about it, the primary purpose of civilization in many ways is to create a place with safety to allow everything else to thrive

No matter the poll, Bukele's approval rating is nearly always over 90%. In the last three polls, it's 93%, 93%, and 94%. I've never seen anything like this. We need to study this regime. The international community has massively underestimated the importance of public order.

@RichardHanania Space is gonna be the next one, we already see droves of opposition to space advancements

Every generation of leftists seems to just hate whatever new thing most represents capitalism and is making life better. Then they forget and move on to the next one. First they obsessed over Walmart. Its crime was a wider range of goods and lower prices. Then Amazon was the issue, because it also gave low prices but also brought unimagined variety and convenience. One click order to get anything in the world overnight, sane people would've been singing its praises, but they specifically targeted them. Now it's data centers, the main engine of economic growth. Populist rightoids are joining them. Good thing about the American system is that it's too deadlocked and too subject to special interest influence to wipe out whatever is new. So data centers will make life better, and then they'll hate the next thing.

@TheHubCanada @Sean_Speer Yup, Canada as a society is far better than Europe in terms of the energy and ability to get things done when we look at history. You don't want a frontier nation to become a bureaucratic one

.@Sean_Speer: Mark Carney needs to get over his Europe obsession thehub.ca/2026/05/01/mar…

@AlexCaswen @_robyn_smith Yeah agreed. The provincial trade barriers and more regulation across the board makes it much harder to scale. It also doesn't help when the alternative is a more integrated economy 10X the size

The canada -> sf pipeline is just proof that having a strong public education system is the key to outsized success A lot of successful americans I meet in sf came from wealthy families that sent them to private school and they were set up to succeed Most canadians in sf went to public school and then a university that cost them $8k CAD/year Democratizing access to the “elite” by making waterloo the pinnacle of success in Canada means Canadians in sf are just as smart but generally significantly more grounded than their counterparts

@vvampastompa @FutureJurvetson @abundanceinst Yeah sometimes we can't complain of how money going into space

@aadi0199 @FutureJurvetson @abundanceinst yeah. i don't necessarily agree with outright bans on data centers, but i have no qualms diverting more dollars into space :-)

💫 Space is the place for the AI race

@Orillacosmica @IterIntellectus Yes, cheers to that. Maybe make part of Mars a pre historic zoo zone

@aadi0199 @IterIntellectus We will have dinosaurs and mammoths in Mars x.com/i/status/20490…

we're getting dinosaurs in our lifetimes aren't we

I am talking about the medical sector, construction, better safeguard tools for nuclear energy and even in mining. There are a whole hosts of sectors which no one is even thinking about which will be disrupted

People underestimate the amount of technology which will be developed to enable humanity to survive and thrive in space. Initially this tech will be expensive but once enough scale is achieved the cost will plummet and see economical option emerge for everybody.