The coming global and permanent removal of all Govt will be fun... In Crypto we trust. @balajis Oct 21 Companies prefer ongoing subscriptions to one-off purchases because they’re reliable revenue. The political analogy would be an ongoing delegation of authority as opposed to a one-off vote. It’d give more reliable political support. Like liquid democracy or corporate proxies. @balajis Oct 20 Meanwhile, the engineers who started with nothing but their proverbial garage have delivered things that are internationally competitive, and on the ascent. Yeah, it’s your email, your smartphone, and your internet services — but also your artificial intelligence, your electric cars, and your reusable rockets. Without Elon, NASA is far behind China[1]. Without tech, the flailing S&P 500 is the drowning S&P 493[2]. Without the Internet, there is no alternative to the false news printed by the New York Times and the false narratives promulgated by Harvard. This is why establishment hacks hate the Internet — because it's a source of parallel elites, and parallel institutions. And they don't want the competition. [1]: nitter.unixfox.eu/WholeMarsBlog/st… [2]: cnbc.com/2023/10/06/magnific… @balajis Oct 20 LOSING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN Let’s be real: US political leaders since the Gulf War are perhaps the worst leaders in the history of the world. In 1991, they inherited a hyperpower that wins everywhere without fighting. But by 2021 they produced a declining power that fights everywhere without winning. It’s thirty years of unmitigated domestic and international failure, from San Francisco to Syria, from financial crisis to coronavirus. With every inherited advantage, US leaders nevertheless produced historical collapses in life expectancy[1] and manufacturing capacity[2], in patriotic loyalty and involvement in community[3]. They also delivered concomitant rises in drug overdoses[4], out-of-wedlock births[5], and homeless encampments[6]. And no, they have no historical, philosophical, or literary depth. The historical analogies begin and end with 1939. The philosophy is little more than constant accusations of racism. And the reading level of US presidential speeches has measurably[7] dropped like a rock, to idiocratically elementary levels. The only thing the establishment *has* delivered on is their own bottom line. Think about Pelosi’s stocks[8], BLM’s mansions[9], Obama’s book deals, and 10% for the big guy. The corruption is now flagrant and public. As others have observed, we’re in the looting-the-treasury phase of imperial collapse, as the national debt soars past $33T with literally no limit in sight. STUPID, OR EVIL? And that's what leads to the "conspiracy theories." Are US leaders stupid, or evil? Did they unintentionally ruin what was once the greatest country on earth, or was it intentional and done for their own gain? The conspiracy theories are a way for mere proles to make sense of the senseless. They aren't all wrong, mind you — WMD was fake, the AAA mortgage-backed securities were fake, Russiagate was fake, and so on. Evil was involved in intentionally faking these stories. But ultimately, thinking of US leadership as evil gives them too much credit. It's just hard to remain global #1. The nature of entropy means there are countless ways for the world order to shatter, and only a few ways to keep it intact. Maybe George Washington could find one of those ways, but we have Joe Biden. And that's why DC is losing the Mandate of Heaven[10]. [1]: scpr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4… [2]: thedrive.com/the-war-zone/al… [3]: archive.ph/d8eAk [4]: nida.nih.gov/research-topics… [5]: childtrends.org/publications… [6]: archive.ph/kWktp [7]: flowingdata.com/2013/02/12/s… [8]: dailydot.com/debug/nancy-pel… [9]: nypost.com/2022/05/09/blms-p… [10]: worldhistory.org/Mandate_of_… Dmitry Grozoubinski @DmitryOpines Oct 19 Part of the tech-bro to conspiracy-bro pipeline is the phenomenon of men who spent their formative years ignoring and disdaining anything but coding, gaming or tech now noticing politics and global affairs for the first time and refusing to believe this is how the world works. @BasedBeffJezos Oct 20 This is why they want you to decelerate. The Decels and govt want to rob you with inflation to pay down their debts. The other choice is to accelerate. Don't let them psyop you into submission with doom and gloom. Technology is the great deflationary force. Optimism is an act of rebellion. Create, build, expand, own what you build. It is the only way to fight this top-down vs bottom-up monetary war. Go forth and accelerate, anon.