Kyle Bergin

@C_3C_3 @TheAliceSmith Elon created $1 trillion of value for himself… he created vast amounts more for others and society, vast amounts

Elon created $1 trillion of value. Congress created $39 trillion of debt. Elon’s wealth is not the problem…

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement. Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier. Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème. Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs. Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours. La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

🚨 BREAKING: Multiple NHS services have been told to not detain psychotic African and Caribbean people to lower their "over representation." Valdo Calocane was one of these psychotic Africans who staff refused to detain because of his race. He went on to murder Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham.

@TheMercianNews Insanity

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West. The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

I think about this every single day.

We made it illegal to employ a 22 year old with no prior experience full time for less than £25k and we wonder why there are no jobs for them

@AaronBastani So, to get this right, you believe only those who pay money to the system (the party in charge realistically) should take part? Vote, own property, help build the community? Only if you pay? Mafia or government?

Nope. Part of the social contract is tax, no matter how high or low you think they should be. You vote. You can own property. You pay taxes. A very pernicious idea to argue otherwise! This is about killing the middle class (who then pay all the tax…)

@jvb_xyz Ridiculous comment re cope, he literally says he does both but one is more efficient at achieving its goals, agree or disagree with that statement?

@micsolana @DrewPavlou Flip it on its head… if Bezos was given a billion dollars to fix NYC public schools tomorrow, could he do it? I think so. Question is, how? What would be the most efficient plan, surely he’d come up with it?

if bezos handed a billion dollars to nyc public schools tomorrow literally nothing would change and everyone knows it, bc the problem isn’t lack of funds it’s shitty government. but these people don’t care bc they don’t care about kids. they just hate you and want your things.

There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs! An incredibly unjust double-standard!

Hard to think of a more midwit position than being anti-supermarket. Tesco is an unmitigated force for good. It supplies tens of millions of people with luxuries their grandparents couldn't imagine, employs 1 in 200 people, and runs on paper thin margins through sheer competence

@MattMJones00 @WatchReform @raelbrav Rent is tax as salary, profits taxed similar rate to salary if taken as dividend (but unclear what you mean here), stocks are unrealised wealth so they have no substantial access to the gains here? (Much like they are protected from paying on the losses, which is correct)

@Kyle_bergin10 @WatchReform @raelbrav Think you might be confused. Top 1% of tax payers is those who earn 180k to 200+. This figure is PAYE. How many millionaires pay PAYE - not many at all. If they do pay themselves a salary that is taxed, what about the income on assets like rent, profits, stocks - via tax havens

Again with the breakfast clubs! Everyday you tell us about the breakfast clubs! Parents should be feeding their kids. End of.

@villi @r0b0t_sp1der As below, so what? If he has several years of little to no tax yet one year pays the highest amount ever paid by an individual, shouldn’t you be happy? Genuinely confused by the idea that you seem to be happy if he paid a smaller overall amount so long as he paid annually

@r0b0t_sp1der Of course. He is the richest person in the world. But, I bet in the past 20 years he has never had a higher effective tax rate than me.

This is a half truth. The top 1% is bankers, layers, small business owners, and highly paid employees and execs. They pay a very high effective tax rate. The super wealthy like Bezos, pay an extremely low effective tax rate, similar to a middle class family.

The year is 2026. The U.K public are not accepting of anyone making money now. We are going after supermarkets. Which literally fed our nation. Have invested billions in building stores, employing staff, supporting farmers. Our envy on society has turned on literally the hand that feeds us. People now have a problem about them making profit on wafer thin margins of between 2-4% Are people genuinely losing their mind and cannot comprehend how them making a profit can benefit people? They’ll improve their stores, open up more, employ more people, return cash to shareholders - which include our pension funds. Why have we got this view that companies making profit if a bad thing. Personally I wish our NHS made a profit… that’ll be the day we see standards improve. But the UK are not ready to have that debate….

@ColeMaritz @JeffBezos Citizens have skin in the game… people don’t have to pay money to want to see their community, county, country do well

@JeffBezos I’m a fan and admirer of yours, but I disagree that the bottom 50% of income earners shouldn’t pay taxes. Taxes are skin in the game. Every citizen has a stake in government, so everyone should contribute, even if it’s a small sum.

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

@Clyde_Sports25 @RangersBanter17 Struggle to read the time pal?

@RangersBanter17 They literally cannot take it any further than moaning 😂 sorry to tell you this, but the game didn't finish early. This isn't hard to grasp. Maybe it is for the hard of thinking....