James Buscher

This equation trips up most people. What’s your answer?

@GavinNewsom made in China?

HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents. Launching this summer. Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave. Stop talking about lowering costs for families — DO IT!

@elizax650 15

This is causing arguments 😬 Who’s right?

@Alexander_4r6 A) 3

Only for mathematician 99% failed.

@amazing_physics people call me the negative one

99% people fail to solve this 😢 Lets try

@anishmoonka @elonmusk This is the most interesting post I’ve ever read on X, ever

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early. The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record. The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold. The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up. That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax. In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

@Friyaneb 3, and -3

Can your mind handle this? 🤔 Only the sharpest brains will get it right

@_josephine0_ Definition of a pop quiz…do I win a soda, or just more spam?

Prove me wrong without googling.

@noravibes_ 44

iQ Test What is the answer..?

@Arden_2210 35

Only high IQ people can find the answer 🤯 What should be the value of 7 ?

@honeymoon250 You forgot about 8 track tapes, mark me down as 21

6 for me!! I feel confident nobody Has all 20 How many for you?

@SweetTexanRose History of humans

Let’s hear what ya got!

@Starlink Amazing tech, but I lament the true wilderness, there is now nowhere on Earth that is wild and free

Starlink connects the unconnected, even in the most remote areas around the world 🛰️❤️

@MathGuyTFL Cube root of 2

Find the value of n.

@Lilly_22100 2Mary

Can you guess the answer?

@OfficialJoel4_ 6

LEVEL- SIMPLE but TRICKY. The most difficult eye 👀 test on the Internet How many letters "A" do you see ? Correct answer wins $350 Ends 4th March

@FanMusk39325 11

Give it a try. I know 90% are going to get it wrong, the correct answer gets $5000.

@your_junuu 4

@oelma__ Maybe once for a few days with body aches mostly

How many..?

@ohhanxiety Are you free of intelligent thought? Perhaps you should have paid the fee before tweeting the mental sneeze

Can you?