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HackTheNeuron
@HackTheNeuron
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I'm not left or right wing. I'm a pragmatist.
Your ideas require one thing that has never existed: an incorruptible government.
Interest-free government currency? Every country that tried it — Zimbabwe, Venezuela (Where I am from btw), Weimar Germany — printed itself into hyperinflation. Central bank independence exists because we learned politicians with a money printer always choose short-term popularity over long-term stability.
Full public ownership? Someone has to manage the people's assets. Those people become the new ruling class. You're angry about privatized profits and socialized losses — so your fix is handing more control to the same governments that enabled the bailouts in the first place?
The one country that manages public resources well — Norway — also has free markets, private property, and billionaires. It's a capitalist mixed economy. Not socialism.
I agree with your diagnosis. I just don't trust your pharmacist. And neither should you — we're reminded of government corruption literally every day, in every country on earth.
This isn't left vs right. It's what works vs what looks good on a poster.
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@HackTheNeuron @WillArakasi I cheerlead for these.
Economic literates, people of good heart, good mind and good conscience can join me.
Right wingers not required! ☺️

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Three replies in and you've:
- Named zero countries where your system worked
- Posted the same ugly infographic three times
- Called China a “the future” while your bio says "Campaign for Real Democracy"
- Dismissed lived experience under the system you're defending (mine and everyone I know from there btw)
- Responded to every specific point with "you're clueless"
Anyone following this thread can see who brought arguments and who brought a poster.
I'll leave it here. Good luck campaigning for "real democracy" while cheerleading a one-party state.
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@HackTheNeuron @WillArakasi You can whine and wail all you like, you found yourself economically clueless on the wrong side.
I'm not required to go to daft lengths to save you, I do my bit voluntarily, the rest is down to you.
Sure, your "lived experience" is more important than economics:

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@elonmusk @diana_dukic This is some sophisticated UX research you're doing, Elon
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"Western propaganda" — the exit door for people who can't answer the question.
I asked you to name one country where your system worked. You said China. No free elections, no free press, no free internet, social credit scores, Uyghur camps. That's your shining city on a hill.
By the way — your bio says "Campaign for Real Democracy." Your model country hasn't held a free election in its entire existence. You don't want real democracy. You want a benevolent dictatorship that agrees with you. Those don't stay benevolent.
"The third world is capitalist" — and the ones that went socialist? Venezuela, Cuba, USSR, North Korea, Cambodia, Zimbabwe. How'd that go?
The third world's problem isn't free markets. It's corruption and weak institutions — the exact things that get worse when you hand the state more power.
You've dismissed my lived experience, called facts propaganda, and your argument comes down to "just trust the government this time." That's not economics. That's faith in Marxist propaganda.
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@HackTheNeuron @WillArakasi You're just regurgitating western propaganda, all of which exists to protect these.
China is the future. Thanks to you and everyone else who can't learn, the west is soon to be an embarrassing past.
The near entire third world is capitalist. 👈

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@caffeinefaildev Linus Torvals: "AI writes better code than me"
Random dev who once centered a div by c&p code from stackoverflow: "They are gonna need me when they gotta fix all the technical debt from the AI slob"
GIF
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You just used China as your model society. Let's talk about that "choice-rich environment":
- Social credit system that punishes dissent
- The Great Firewall — no free internet
- No free press, no free elections
- Tiananmen Square — tanks for protesters
- Uyghur forced labor camps
- One-child policy enforced through forced sterilizations
That's what "public ownership" looks like when the public has zero say in who runs it. You called it "non-profit." The CCP has more billionaires in its legislature than the US Congress.
You say "I lived somewhere" isn't a qualification. Interesting. So lived experience under the system you're defending is worthless, but your infographics are gospel? I left because I watched the theory meet reality. You're defending a system from the outside because you like how it reads on paper.
And you're right — nationalised healthcare and transport work in places like Scandinavia. You know what those countries also have? Free markets, private property rights, stock exchanges, and billionaires. They're capitalist mixed economies with strong safety nets. They'd laugh at being called socialist.
You don't have an argument for socialism. You have an argument for better-regulated capitalism. Welcome to my side.
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@HackTheNeuron @WillArakasi 4/
capitalism, tell me how much of capitalist society is supposed to be publicly owned and controlled for the benefit of democracy:

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"No idea how either system works" — I literally lived in one and chose the other. You're debating from an infographic.
Your checklist mixes legitimate critiques of crony capitalism with a fantasy version of socialism that has never existed at scale. "Democratic, interest-free national currencies" and "full public commons" sound great on a graphic. Name one country that implemented them without collapsing into authoritarianism, hyperinflation, or both.
I'll save you the search — there isn't one. Because the second you centralize that much economic power "for the people," the people running it become the new ruling class. That's not theory. That's every socialist experiment in the 20th and 21st century.
You're not arguing against capitalism. You're arguing against a version of it that I also criticize (I literally said we don't have real capitalism). The difference is my alternative is more economic freedom and accountability. Yours is handing more power to the state and hoping this time they won't abuse it.
Orwell already told you how this ends: "they looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and it was impossible to say which was which." The revolutionaries always become the new oppressors. Every. Single. Time.
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@HackTheNeuron @WillArakasi Your account is given all the consideration it deserves by the fact that you've clearly no idea how either system works.
But by all means, explain the outcomes you claim each produce from their actual economics:

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Based on your posts, you seem to think socialism is the answer... so I'll engage with that and this post.
Socialism is the biggest scam sold in the modern era. Equality of outcome cannot be guaranteed. People vary in drive, sacrifice, intelligence, and connections. No system changes that.
What socialism DOES change is where power concentrates. I was born in a socialist system. I've seen it firsthand. Power centralizes in the government, and opportunity flows top-down — to family, friends, loyalists. Everyone outside the inner circle becomes a resource to tax, expropriate, or imprison (or eliminate).
In capitalism — and to be clear, no country runs pure capitalism; even the US is a mixed economy — power tracks with productive value: what you build, what you supply, how essential you are to the chain that keeps people fed, clothed, and sheltered. Think of Maslow’s hierarchy. Capitalism is the only system that lets individuals climb that pyramid on their own terms — meet your basic needs, then pursue growth, mastery, purpose. Socialism locks most people at the bottom while insiders skip to the top.
One system rewards proximity to power. The other rewards contribution to society. I'll take the imperfect version of the second one every time.
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@HackTheNeuron @WillArakasi By all means set us straight! 😂
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@elonmusk @AtreyuUSA @art_muse @elonmusk do you think BCIs could be used to modulate the hypothalamus and pituitary gland to effectively manage hormone levels? No more TRT needles?
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🇺🇸‼️ | El magnate Elon Musk presentó avances de Blindsight, el nuevo chip de Neuralink que busca devolver la visión incluso a personas completamente ciegas, y afirmó que el proyecto ya está a la espera de aprobación regulatoria. El primer implante en humanos podría realizarse en Abu Dabi, tras un acuerdo con Emiratos Árabes Unidos.

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Trust the tech? First, inspect the code. 🔍💻 Just watched the @oall_global stream - a massive wake-up call. Closed-source BCI is a ticking time bomb. If the technology is a "black box," even experts can't audit it. One single hack or system glitch won't just ruin a company, it will destroy the world’s trust in brain tech forever. @elonmusk, your influence defines this market, but a closed empire is a fragile one.
Investors aren't funding a breakthrough; they’re funding a "Black Swan" they can't control. Without transparency, we aren't building the future, we're just waiting for a disaster. 🛡️🚀
#OpenBCIOpenSTC #TechSafety #RiskManagement #Neuralink

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@EhuKnowsBest @lilianaf523 @CapAnarco No se preocupen si no lo have el, lo hago yo.
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@lilianaf523 @CapAnarco Este señor no tiene mucha trayectoria de cumplir con los plazos o los objetivos que promete, Liliana.
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