@SethBannon
RE: “Because this administration is so anti-science,”
That’s nonsense. The administration is against pseudoscience and against seeking funding as rents against the population without return. And the evidence is overwhelming that waste is rampant.
You don’t get to
Source date (UTC): 2026-02-15 01:22:17 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022843876080496719
I am a very successful negotiator. I understand what he is doing, why it works, and why the consequences are beneficial either way. The USA cannot subsidize world defense any longer.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 22:37:35 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013017956616458567
WHY THE U.S. CANNOT BE SCANDINAVIA
–“… it would require that the American middle classes accept a MASSIVE downward mobility hit, which is completely out of the question given the anomic (norm-less) and polarized state of American society and politics.”–
@obsessivehermit
Europeans are almost universally poorer in terms of disposable income than the americans. You can however leave europe and come to american and generate wealth.
Which is what happens. Most european VC’s will simply as how long before you can move to the States.
The USA was built for the middle and upper classes by rejecting the aristocratic and clerical classes as parasites. Europe, because of their heritage under the aristocracy and the church is built largely for the working classes at the expense of the middle and upper middle (and lower-upper) classes.
There is value in both systems, especially if we migrate to those countries that suit our class interests. Europe is doing this under the EU, hence the collapse of industry and increase in debt in France, and the expansion of industry in poland, and the exit of educated talent from poland to germany etc.
The USA has a similar process but it is from one state’s growth-city until it’s near bankruptcy to another state’s growth city repeating the process eternally. California was a flight destination, and now people are leaving california for texas as a flight destination. Of course these people will destroy texas as they have california until collapse (bankruptcy) causes them to reform. Even then people change only with gravestones so it takes a generation or three. Connecticut is dead for all intents and purposes because it’s the state that most copied the soviets. As such state employees have all the benefits and everyone who can escape the nihilism does. Massachusetts lost the tech sector to california but because it has the top universities, it had finance and medicine and other specializations to build upon, while drawing talent from around the world and the country.
Cheers
CD
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-18 19:56:52 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012977512117395863
Our organization has been making this argument for almost a decade. Though we include the reforms in the financial sector as well – the extractions from which are even more horrifying. Our point is that there is no reason we tax the common folk so to speak. We don’t have to increase taxes. I get angry thinking of independent contractors whose bodies give up by their late forties paying income taxes when their net contribution to taxes is in the low single digits. It’s just ‘not right’ so to speak.
Noblesse Oblige.
Source date (UTC): 2026-01-02 06:56:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2006982836041982024
The End of Social Democracy
In my lifetime I’ve seen the end of communism (USSR, China), the end of socialism (South America), and now the end of Social Democracy (Europe).
What’s aggravating is the knowledge that this process was deterministic – meaning counter to human behavior. But the well meaning fools in their arrogance assumed the impossible.
I felt hopeful when in the 1970s we recognized that communism and socialism would fail. I felt relieved when the soviet union fell. I felt justified when 2008 ended the Keynesian economic nonsense for the same reasons. I felt terrified in 2016 with the possibility of a Hillary victory would give her ability to enact her leninism. And I was relieved with the Trump victory. The four years of biden were a catastrophe that only confirmed our suspicions. And now trump is using shock and awe to reorganize the world because the american subsidy of world defense and markets is no longer sustainable.
I have doubts whether he can fix the bureaucracy but I suspect hisi reform of the world order will be successful. The net result however is that social democracy has played out exactly as predicted, just as socialism before, and communism before had done so.
Source date (UTC): 2025-12-30 07:26:42 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005903357006000594
THE FOLLY OF YOUNG PEOPLE’S WANT OF SOCIALISM
Curt Doolittle argues that true socialism—where the government controls production—sounds appealing but is impossible to achieve.He says that if people really mean “social democracy” like in Europe (which focuses on heavy wealth redistribution rather than owning businesses), it only works under specific conditions:
– The population must keep growing through high birth rates.
– The people’s skills and makeup must align with what the modern economy needs to support that growth.
That’s why Europe will have to cut back on these policies, and the US can’t sustain them either—especially for things like retirement and healthcare in the coming years.
He criticizes young people pushing for socialism as ignorant “nitwittery.”
Instead of that, he favors Trump-style reforms:
– Overhaul global strategies to lower costs.
– Strengthen the economy to create more jobs and increase self-sufficiency (autarky).
– Reduce the burden of immigration by only allowing people who meet demographic standards for competitiveness and viability.
– These young advocates are essentially self-destructive, he claims, because they’re assuming the US and Europe can cling to or revive their post-World War II advantages in strategy, demographics, institutions, science, technology, and economics.
But those edges were temporary “windfalls” from historical revolutions (like the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution), which have now spread worldwide and can’t be recaptured.
In short, pushing for more socialism is like “barking up a dying tree”—it’s a failing, outdated idea.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-09 19:01:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1987596462293926309
Socialism sounds good. It can’t happen. Sorry. If you mean social democracy (Europe) which doesn’t mean centralization of production, but aggressive redistribution even if only indrectly, then it only works as long as (a) your rate of reproduction is increasing the population over time, (b) your demographic distribution remains parallel to the scientific and technological demands of the economy necessary to support that reproduction and growth. Hence why europe must cease their redistributive policies, and why the USA cannot maintain it’s redistributive policies, particularly in retirement and healthcare in the coming decades.
So my assessment is that the young ignorant nitwittery that’s harping on socialism instead of Trumpian aggressive restructuring of geostrategy to reduce our costs, the economy to increase our employability and autarky, and decrease our costs of supporting immigration that does’t pass the demographic threshold of competitive viability is trying to commit suicide under the presumption that the pre-and postwar worlds of american and european strategic, demographic, institutional, scientific, technological, and economic advantage are either possible to continue or possible to restore – when those circumstances were windfalls of the enlightenment, scientific, industrial, and technological revolutions that have been dissipated out into the world.
You’re barking up a dying tree.
Curt Doolittle.
Source date (UTC): 2025-11-09 18:43:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1987591814363430987
NO. Empathy requires information necessary to judge the difference between subsidy of free riding, parasitism, and predation vs incapacity, incompetence, or emergency. Empathy doesn’t scale because human interests and abilities don’t scale. The best we can achieve is meritocracy independent of subsidy of malincentives. At present the number of people on ‘benefits’ whether children, adult, or senior citizen is making every other investment nearly impossible. How many people are we subsidizing their bad behavior vs how many are we protecting from harm despite their good behavior. We can and do know these things. Because subsidy ‘baits people into the hazard of not changing their behavior to suit their needs.’
Source date (UTC): 2025-10-30 16:24:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1983933039706300848
(AI, Reforms, Job Losses)
Brad and I were just working on healthcare costs driven by insurance, administrative, and regulatory burdens. But this just begs us to address all the dead weight sectors that are producing white collar jobs that are easily replaced by removing the human
Source date (UTC): 2025-09-22 17:58:29 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1970185949939409189
), while domestic industrial erosion accelerated through trade policies (3-5 million manufacturing jobs lost since 1979
). The numbers reveal a structural shift from production (21% agricultural labor decline in Italy
) to service economies, with asymmetric benefits to capital over labor (8.2% wage gap growth
).
Source date (UTC): 2025-05-12 23:44:22 UTC
Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1922075410441109946