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@rexthundercock Where's my hyperloop, Rex? My solar roads? Full self-driving? Cave rescue submarine? lol

Guy looking at the first railroad track being laid: Now why would I spend a dollar on that?

@RockChartrand All you need to do to prove the "net zero, closed finite system" theory false is point out that at one point in time, the average personal wealth was an animal skin and a sharp stick. Obviously the average personal wealth has increased since then. How? Efficiency gains.

The ridiculous notion is thinking growth means using more stuff rather than using stuff better. A smartphone replaced a camera, GPS, calculator, flashlight, map, stereo, encyclopedia, mailbox, newspaper, and dozens of other physical products while using fewer resources than all of them combined. That's economic growth: more value, not necessarily more matter. Meanwhile, the same people who say, "You can't have infinite growth on a finite planet," are often the first to insist that life is unbearable unless they're given more housing, more healthcare, more education, more energy, more food, more subsidies, more services, more benefits, and more spending. Apparently scarcity only exists when someone else is producing.

@TradAdvocate Consent is insane?

Feminists treat sex as though it were as meaningless as a handshake. They encourage women to sleep around with random strangers and even sell their bodies. But suddenly sex is so serious and even traumatizing when the man they married wants it. Totally insane.

@Alonso_GD The goal is not to protect children. That's always an excuse to take privacy and freedom from law-abiding Americans.

I’m not a tech person so maybe this is dumb but isnt it easier to create a “children’s phone” at point of sale so you get a phone with built-in restrictions rather than asking every single person in the country whether they are over 16 or not through hackable digital ID software?

@MentisWave 3. Elon keeping his wealth, but we ban corporate and individual wealth from influencing government policy.

Economics IQ test time: Which would likely be more beneficial to the average person? ( both now and in the future ): 1. Elon Musk liquidating his wealth and gifting everyone $100. 2. Not doing so, and instead just continuing on his current path.

@erthwjim @erikkain Yes, the top level details are used to tease the full report, which is their main off-the-shelf research product. Every game company buys the full report every year -nobody is making business strategy decisions based on the public top level numbers.

@CovertQOS @erikkain But I lack the credentials (Not a journalist, not in the industry, etc) to probably receive copies or access to the original data and usually paying for the data is not in a price range where it makes sense for some lone consumer to fork out that amount of money

Honestly, the thing about these "statistics" is all games are considered equal. Someone who plays ten different games a week, someone who plays 100 hours a week and someone who plays a mobile game for an hour a day are all considered a "gamer" and that fundamentally misses the point.

@erthwjim @erikkain Newzoo, the ESA, and similar games market/player research companies do make that distinction, but you generally have to pay for the full report to see it. "Gamer" is the generic top level cohort. The full analysis gives you breakdown by core/casual, game genre, platform, etc.

@erikkain Yep, the numbers in the esa report are based on anyone that played video games for at least an hour. There is a difference between doing something for an hour a week vs 5 hours a week vs multiple hours a day, and that's even ignoring what is played during that time

@Lensar_dawn @erikkain Core gamers, casual gamers, etc. But in terms of number of players and global industry revenue, most gamers are actually casual gamers.

@Lensar_dawn @erikkain You're fixated on one bullet point from an entire market analysis. Newzoo and other games market research companies also provide breakdowns by player gender, game genre, and so on. "Gamers" is fine as a top level cohort because we have specific names for other cohorts.

@mtntallpaul @IsaacBotkin You want evidence that private wealth corrupts the government? It's been happening for over a century at this point. What sort of evidence do you need? Lobbying, bribery, insider trading, regulatory capture, PACs -all huge issues in US politics across both parties.

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin Every part of it for which you cannot provide evidence.

Elon Must has a trillion dollars, and that is deeply unfair. If we could just be allowed to take his money, ruin his factories, melt his rockets down for scrap, burn his cars for heat, and force his hundreds of thousands of employees out onto the streets, humanity could finally rise to new heights of utopic equality and the world would become a workers paradise. Sincerely, the Communists.

Strong law enforcement can keep strong corporations in check, if the laws are actually applied. The problem is US government has been corrupted by corporations boiling the frog over the last century. US law enforcement is weak because it only goes after poor small-time criminals, instead of the biggest and most damaging criminals. For example, corporate wage theft is by far the biggest form of theft in the US. Much bigger than theft, burglary, and robbery combined. But how do we spend our law enforcement budget? Sending police to patrol neighborhoods instead of sending auditors to police corporations. Many such cases.

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin Law enforcement needs to be strong. It's the only part of government that should be heavy-handed and it's the only part of our government that isn't.

@libertatumadvo @robertgraham There's only so much room in my head for all the crazy shit he's been wrong about over the decades.

@CovertQOS @robertgraham You also forgot the solar powered roads too.

It's you leftists who are to blame. Over a $1 trillion of SpaceX valuation comes from a future "orbital data-center" business. That business is only viable because of the political opposition to terrestrial data-centers. The more you oppose data-centers, the more you repeat misinformation about tax-breaks and water, the richer you make @ElonMusk (pbuh).

@Margare51775614 @IsaacBotkin I don't complain about any of them. I'm in the 1%, myself. But I would like to keep corporate (and investor) money out of politics. A government optimizing policy for the portfolios of themselves and their wealthy friends are not optimizing policy for working Americans.

If you haven't complained about the likes of Fink, Soros, Schwab or Rothschild, the ones who have actually been robbing all of humanity for decades, and keep much of their booty in actual bank accounts, not just equity in businesses, then kindly just stfu about a man who reinvents in humanity. Imbicle.

@mtntallpaul @IsaacBotkin What did I make up?

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin The argument is that idiots like you make stuff up.

@pdhouse @IsaacBotkin Is the Soros in the room with us right now?

@IsaacBotkin @CovertQOS I wave yet to see a communist demand Soros pay his fair share …..

@RitsonGed64139 @IsaacBotkin Sure. I'm a corporate executive at a Fortune 10, myself. I'm a believer in capitalism. The argument is not for committees. The argument is to ban corporate lobbying, PACs, and to ban corporations (most with large foreign investors) from spending money on US elections.

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin However if you are going to run huge projects that require massive resources being brought together in an efficient and coordinated manner with a clear vision then you need concentrated wealth to be able to achieve this. SpaceX could not be run with a thousand man committee

@Kinem113235 @IsaacBotkin Do you believe that the founding fathers were a corrupt government? If not, when do you believe it started? And what led to it? (the causes are corporate lobbying, regulatory capture, and insider trading)

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin So billionaires corrupt governments with their wealth so the answer is... to give more money to governments, a bunch of corrupted individuals according to you? Make it make sense

@TBerlaga @IsaacBotkin I mean regulatory capture. Lobbying politicians to put laws in place that stifle competition. Buying RVs for Supreme Court justices who rule on the legality of your actions. And so on. If all these people did was compete fairly and make good products, nobody would complain.

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin By "tilting markets" you mean producing products people like and buy voluntarily? Yeah, I hate when that happens.

@tkulogo @IsaacBotkin There are multiple ways to address the problem, with their own drawbacks. Weak government and strong private sector inevitably leads to corporate feudalism. Pinkertons shooting workers, etc.

@CovertQOS @IsaacBotkin This is why we need smaller government. Billionaires can't use the government to do that if the government can't do that.