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aleph
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VC fund partnering with Israeli companies ready to go from #startup to #scaleup success.








Humble like Mike. Congrats to @mikeeisenberg and the @aleph team and the Israel ecosystem. They are GREAT partners to Lux and our shared investments!

Rome fell because the Romans stopped making Romans. Elon Musk pointed to the same pattern that appears whenever a civilization gets comfortable: birth rates drop. Julius Caesar noticed it around 50 BC and explored incentives for a third child. Augustus went further with the Lex Julia and Lex Papia Poppaea, creating the ius trium liberorum, privileges, tax relief, and inheritance advantages for those with three or more children, plus penalties for the childless. The laws failed to reverse the trend. Will and Ariel Durant’s reading of history shows the cycle repeating: higher births under stress, decline once external threats ease and prosperity rises. Few exceptions. A society that stays below replacement long enough disappears. Basic arithmetic.


Palantir cofounder @JTLonsdale says he’d pay 90% of his fortune in taxes if it meant we could actually have a competent, functioning society: “I’m fucking rich, Michael” “I would pay a 90% tax rate if we could keep our society competent. If we could stop having illegals swarm into our country, if we could fire unaccountable bureaucrats, if we could put systems in place to make our government competent, if we could stop having regulators harass and destroy and impune builders.” “I will pay whatever taxes that takes— I’ll pay 90% of my fortune. We need our country to be functional for my kids and grandkids and everyone else…”





