David Dunn

@ArinzeOkpala2 @brivael I would argue that anything the government spends on is a total disaster or, at best, done poorly. Scientific research included. Can you explain further what capital allocations you think the government does that are superior to the free market? Roads might be relevant.

2/2 The critique of the state also treats all public spending as waste and all private investment as value‑creating, which doesn’t match reality. Some entrepreneurs misallocate capital spectacularly; some public institutions deliver enormous social returns. France’s high public spending is a legitimate debate, but its productivity, infrastructure, and scientific output complicate the narrative of pure decline. The real question isn’t whether the state should allocate resources or whether entrepreneurs should — it’s which problems each is structurally suited to solve. Markets are excellent at discovering preferences and driving innovation; governments are essential for public goods, risk‑sharing, and long‑horizon projects. A society that pretends one side is always the hero and the other always the villain ends up blinding itself to half of the tools it actually needs.

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

@J_L_Fairchild @PpollingNumbers @CoreyWriting Welcome to polls

@PpollingNumbers @CoreyWriting This is a dumb poll question. No two groups or countries are 100% aligned. Israel and the US are mostly aligned. More aligned than the US with any other country.

Are the interests of Israel and the USA Aligned - 46% Opposed - 20% YouGov #A - 4/16

@exJerryjones @1trdrjoe @misfitpatriot_ Saudi is a US ally jerr bear. They’ve actively worked with us agains our enemies.

@1trdrjoe @misfitpatriot_ Where did i blame him for anything? I simply pointed out his major financial ties to Saudi Arabia. A country working with our enemies in the east. You can simply google it. Id grok it for you but no check mark.

Why the fuck does Jeff Bezos have to give you 7 billion dollars? The American people give the government around 7 TRILLION dollars every year and you fuckin retards haven’t fixed shit with it. You think if the creepy bald Amazon dude adds another 0.1% to that figure you’re finally gonna figure out how to stop blowing our fuckin money? Better idea, how about you give the other 99.9% to the private sector and see if they can figure out how to cure diabetes or make a sandwich for 4th graders. I bet they’ll have change left over.

@IsaacIsaacba11 @Hombrelmparable You literally just described the nba and nfl. You have to have won the genetic lottery to even be considered for either league. Can’t teach 6’8

@Hombrelmparable Menuda gilipollez. Que fisicamente la mujer tiene menos aptitudes es algo genético y la comparativa no va por ahí. Según tu teoría si un tio es mas alto y mas fuerte que tú debería cobrar mas? . Y todo sería según la ley del mas fuerte. Unga unga.

La selección femenina de fútbol de Suiza perdió 7-1 contra un equipo masculino sub-15. Los chicos tenían cara de aburrimiento y parecían querer irse a casa. Se pudo ver a las mujeres celebrando su único gol de tiro libre con gran entusiasmo. Olvídese de la igualdad salarial para las selecciones nacionales masculinas y femeninas. La verdadera pregunta es: ¿Deberían los chicos menores de 15 años cobrar más que las selecciones nacionales femeninas?

@StephenCha47071 @WallStreetApes Gas stations are speculating on the price of their next refil in real time and setting the current price. In other words gas stations price fuel based on what it will cost to replace the next load, not what they paid for the current load. Gas margins are 3-15 cents /gal

@WallStreetApes Obviously true statement. The price went up immediately. Why? More expensive crude hadn't even had time to make it to refineries. Then it has to be distilled into gasoline, then it has to be shipped to market.

Rep Tim Burchett exposes the price of gas increasing in America has nothing to do with the Iran war He says we buy ZERO oil from Iran, our fuel companies just decided to take advantage of the situation and price gouge Americans “How much oil does America get from Iran? Zero. That's how much this is a scam. And these oil companies, shame on 'em. They're using this opportunity to make record profits once again” “Another thing that really ticks me off about it is that the price of oil, they say, well, it's whatever happens overseas is causing this to happen. — The price hasn't gone up — the whole thing is, is just ridiculous. It's greed”

@StephenCha47071 @WallStreetApes Because consumer/investor sentiment drives the futures market, which in turn affects current price. If people THINK oil is going to be more expensive, it becomes so….in the short term at least. Think about how stock market crashes Happen. Same idea.

@MikhailPLoucks @WallStreetApes Yup. This is correct

Oil, like all commodities, is fungible. It doesn't matter where it comes from; the global price is set based on total supply. Wheat from Ukraine or Kansas is wheat. Oil from the US or Iran is oil (assuming the same grade, i.e., sweet/sour; light, heavy). A US producer (or Nigerian, Brazilian, or Venezuelan) will sell to the highest bidder — that's free-market capitalism. Thus, the domestic price will increase to close to that of the world price, allowing for transport costs.

@rbm196691914 @EricLDaugh Oil companies have zero to do with the price of oil. Just like a silver mine company can do nothing with the price of silver, or big lumber companies with the price of lumber. Do you think all big companies control all the commodity prices?

@EricLDaugh Let’s play a game. Oil companies knew this attack was coming since feb. 1st. Oil price were relative stagnant till the 26th but gas prices rose 40 cents in the same time. Today after the attacks gas prices stay the same. Interesting isn’t it they were warned and took action early

🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Marco Rubio just WENT OFF for 12 minutes straight DECIMATING fake news attacks against America and President Trump obliterating the Iranian regime You can tell Rubio knows his stuff. He's BUILT for this moment. GREATEST SECRETARY OF STATE = MARCO! 🇺🇸

@UndraftabIe @RobertSureck @SouthwestAir @X @Delta @AmericanAir Delta is great. AA is one of the worst companies in the world. It’s spirit airlines service quality but with a bad attitude.

The fact that you haven’t looked elsewhere tells most people that you’re not a savvy traveler. They aren’t the cheapest, most efficient or even nicest airline to travel on. @Delta & @AmericanAir are consistently similarly priced with actual civilized boarding experiences & in flight services

Wow. @SouthwestAir is dominating @x. No one happy in group 1. For that matter groups 2-6 either. What a mess. Averaged 40-60 flights a year for forever. Never thought I would be forced to possibly look elsewhere.

@BrianeBriane3 @33Degreed @JasminLaine_ Yes they do

@33Degreed @JasminLaine_ G700 and G800 don’t…

🚨 WATCH: Melanie Joly responds to President Donald Trump’s threat of 50% tariffs on all Canadian aircrafts "It is our understanding that the process is underway and that the certification demands were recent." The FAA certification dates to 2018.

@stanverrett You’re right. That is a very unpopular take. Give me that “bad” football all day

Once again…unpopular take: football in snow is fun, charming and visually pleasing. But it’s also bad. Two teams that play well enough to get to their conference championship game should not have that game decided, in large part, by which team handles weather conditions that one or both see rarely in a given season. The quality of play goes down at the time we expect to see the best football. They will never let it happen again at the Super Bowl, for good reason.

@PaulZeise I watch football to be entertained. The entertainment factor for bad weather is 100x. It’s the absolute best and you cannot convince me otherwise.

A trip to the Super Bowl should not be determined by weather conditions. It just shouldn't. These games should be played at neutral sites in warm weather cities under good conditions

@_OSUDUDE @Jacobtheclipper @BuckZaerr @SimulatedLion Bron does enough crying for all of us

@Jacobtheclipper @BuckZaerr @SimulatedLion He’s good a getting fouls, cry about it

The fact that there is a hype edit on Bron being the greatest flopper ever should automatically DISQUALIFY him from the GOAT debate 😂😂😂 (@SimulatedLion)

@justshipwithmat @sciencegirl Having holes in your socks doesn’t make you lazy. It means you do not care about socks.

@sciencegirl be honest the fact that there are holes in your socks has nothing to do with money it's pure lazyness. I get called out by my gf all the time for this.

Husband & Wife Goals Is this true 🤪 x.com/MarchUnofficia…

@cody_leeee @0xPhaed @CollinRugg This is very good my guy

I think you’re right that empathy is real and widely shared. Humans (and even some animals) are born with moral intuitions. But that only gets us halfway. Innateness explains behavior; it doesn’t establish obligation. Saying “most people feel empathy” is a statement about what is, not what ought to be. The moment you say someone should act on empathy, or that lacking it is a moral failure, you’ve crossed into normative territory. And nature alone can’t get you there. If morality is purely innate or evolutionary, then it’s ultimately contingent.... By that I mean....if evolution wired us differently, different behaviors would be “moral.” If someone lacks empathy (psychopaths, sociopaths), then by that logic they aren’t wrong, they just have different hardware. You can call them “damaged,” but damaged compared to what standard? Survival? Social convenience? Majority preference? AND....That’s the problem: without a transcendent moral reference point, morality collapses into consensus biology. Useful, maybe. Binding? No. The kitten example actually proves the opposite of what you think. “Yes, most of us recoil from torturing kittens.” True. But the moral force of “you must not do that” doesn’t come from the feeling itself. It comes from the belief that suffering is objectively wrong, even if someone doesn’t feel empathy at all. And that belief isn’t self-justifying.

Woman walks off after trying to corner a Christian by asking him why he needs Christianity to know that killing someone is wrong. Woman: “Do you really need your religion to tell maybe you shouldn't kill people? Do you really need a book to tell you that?” Christian: “Why shouldn’t I kill someone?” Woman: “Why… why… I don’t… I… taking a life is not a good thing.” Christian: “That’s what the claim is… tell me why.” Woman: “I feel like taking someone’s life is not a good thing.” Video: @ModernDayDebate

@EgadsNo @TheOnlyDSC Nope.

@TheOnlyDSC Is throwing the ball in someone's face a foul?

Notice how the black referee only blew the whistle after the White player fought back.

@existentialmeat @calvinfroedge This comment made me laugh out loud

@calvinfroedge Midland, Tx took their last possible meaningful L when they shut down water wonderland.

Well, I can tell you who the ultimate loser in this Venezuela episode is Midland, TX

@travelingflying That is such a rage bait description. I get you need to play these X games for money, but it’s not helping.

In case you missed it: The Smithsonian Museum put out a list of bad White people traits. Those included hard work, objectivity, politeness, and having both a dad & mom leading a family.

@TheHarlanAsh @overtintrospect @KurtSchlichter @grok lol. This dude is making up a new definition for the word “banned” so he can win an argument.

@overtintrospect @KurtSchlichter @grok @grok did my original post say anything about books banned from being sold?

I’m horrified that all these Europeans are pointing out that America bans books. This is terrible. No books should be banned in any country, so let me ask those Europe to help me out by giving me the title of a book that is banned in America. Just one title is all I need to start the process of fighting back against this grave injustice. All book banning is wrong. So help me out by telling me the title of a book banned in America. Just one.

🚨78% of registered voters say that the man known to history as Jesus Christ actually existed and walked the earth. ✅️76% say that Jesus Christ was the Son of God (though this could have many meanings). ✅️72% say that Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus Christ. ✅️62% believe the main elements of the Christmas story, including the star of Bethlehem, angels appearing to shepherds, and the visit of the magi really happened. ✅️Government employees are among the most skeptical about the existence of Jesus. More than one in three (36%) say he did not or are not sure.