Edmond Dantes

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Indeed the wealth of a nation is directly proportional to the freedom given to its entrepreneurs and innovators. Democracy is somewhat optional as seen by the examples of Singapore and Shenzen, but property rights and rule of law are critical. Taxation does not have to be low but must not significantly destroy wealth compounding. High taxation also correlates with high state activity which typically hinder the entrepreneurs and thus stop wealth creation. There is no reason that African cities and countries could not become the next Singapore, Dubai or Shenzen. Just copy the those playbooks and stand aside. Imagine masses of Europeans descending on a great city in Africa in 2036 to make their fortune alongside busy locals. My preference - a place with a nice beach please.

The economic illiteracy that underpinned and underpins Thatcherism has done so much damage over the years. It has also produced countless half wits. 👇👇👇

The kaspa people are the new nano people. Nano doesn’t have a btc trading pair anymore so I used USD seems the end result is the same. the kaspa ghosts get to have a glimpse of their zombie coin future in nano.

BLACKROCK JUST SOLD $1 BILLION OF BTC BlackRock sold Bitcoin every single day last week. They sold a total of $1.01 BILLION of BTC. If BlackRock is selling… who’s buying?

In February 2025, American beekeepers lost roughly 60% of their commercial honeybee colonies in a single pollination season. The largest die-off ever recorded. Most of those colonies were trucked to California, to pollinate the almonds being sold to you as the ethical, plant-based alternative. Why bees are in trouble, chronologically. Organochlorines, 1940s onwards. DDT and lindane. Banned in most developed nations between the 1970s and 1990s. Organophosphates, 1950s onwards. Marginally less persistent than organochlorines, acutely toxic to bees on contact. Still in use. Synthetic pyrethroids, 1970s onwards. Highly toxic to bees but break down in sunlight. Theoretically manageable with timing. Neonicotinoids, 1990s onwards. Systemic. Present in pollen and nectar. Sublethal effects on navigation and immune function. Heavily implicated in colony collapse. Sulfoxaflor and related new chemistries, 2010s onwards. Marketed as the bee-safer alternative to neonicotinoids. Available evidence suggests roughly the same mechanism with slightly different timing. Glyphosate, 1974 onwards. Not acutely toxic to adult bees. Disrupts the bee gut microbiome, weakening the colony's defence against pathogens. The hive, in effect, loses its immune system. Fungicides, ongoing. Previously thought safe. Increasingly implicated in larval mortality, particularly when applied during bloom in almond orchards. A bee in a 1950s European meadow met roughly none of these. A bee in a 2026 California almond orchard meets several of them simultaneously, during the most metabolically demanding three weeks of its life. The almond industry is the largest single user of commercial pollination services on earth. The almond industry is also, by direct consequence, the largest single source of bee mortality on earth. A British grass-fed cow has not killed a bee. She has, in fact, raised the local population. The wildflowers in her pasture exist because she grazes them, and those flowers are where the bee is fed. The pollinator-collapse story has been pinned on the wrong species. The cow is feeding the bee. The almond is feeding the receipt.

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Fixed pie conceptual error, every time. Wealth is not laying around for someone to take it, it's created. In any case the left is much better at funding NGOs and think tanks, they use our money for it, so they don't have to bother create the wealth at all.

It’s really something how billionaires have rigged the rules to let them vacuum up all of society’s wealth & then fund think tanks and buy media properties that blame poverty and homelessness and despair on literally everything other than billionaires vacuuming up all the wealth