Also anonymity can actually improve social media polarization (see Chris Bail’s research)

Very tired of every interaction with every tech company and subscription service making me feel used rather than served.

That is very different than claiming fraud without evidence.

Unsubstantiated claims of election fraud should be punished severely. Politicians who baselessly erode confidence in elections without providing timely evidence should be ineligible for political office at least and potentially tried for treason.

Real median household income is the highest its ever been and risen steadily for 50 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

Unemployment rate is 4.3%

Also, I go to Detroit about once a year. Every year it is more vibrant than the lows of 2010. Real estate prices support this argument. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS19804Q

Not saying some people somewhere don’t have it rough but overall we are doing better than we ever have.

I like it because it’s useful.

Life is objectively much better today for the average person than it has been for 99% of humans in 99% of history.

(“They will kill us and eat us for our protein” makes you sound totally insane and in this ludicrous scenario I think the rich peoples army of drones/optimus robots would simply say “no”.)

None of the large language model providers have a very defensible product moat yet and if the models themselves can reveal research fundamentals their position would become extremely precarious.

It would be very tempting to hide behind a national security excuse to try and preserve the research moat.

Regardless:

1. Starlink is amazing (literally never want to fly on an airplane without it ever again, wish I could search for flights based on having it)

2. Starship is amazing. (ensures American space dominance for generations)

3. Being able to manufacture hard things at scale and employ hundreds of thousands of people and making thousands of millionaires is amazing for our economy!!

Unless they are fools, the general public should be stoked AF.

Additionally, since most startups fail, the founding engineer is typically better compensated than the founders. It’s only in the success case that it is a raw deal economically. However, in the rare case that it is a successful company, the founding engineer does alright and then also knows more about how to do it again.

The difference between founding engineer and founder is typically the difference between starting before any money came in or joining after (basically guts/conviction)

I am struggling to understand where the unfair part is coming from. Nobody is making anybody do anything. Everything is transparent and above board. Everybody in this scenario is willingly working market wages (except for founders and early hires who work below market and take equity for a couple years because they believe in the idea)

Every global economic statistic backs this up

You force the founder to give up their private property just because it is valuable?

Remember these are not dollar bills in the founders bank account. It is just the company they created is now very valuable. It does not mean it is liquid.

To get people to help you make it you offer to pay them and they willingly exchange their time for that money (or equity if they also think it will be very valuable someday or you have a record of making valuable things in the past)

Who is the person swindled here? Who agreed to something and was deceived? Who was stolen from?

This process is net wealth creation. The wealth is generated, not taken from somebody else.

And it’s not like he took the money from somebody else.

He spent a ton of time to create something that he owned the majority of and to make that thing more valuable. He paid other people to help him and they were happy with that exchange. The government also helped them and they were happy with that exchange.

Suddenly, people have assigned a concrete value to the thing via the IPO and it is very valuable.

It’s not like he suddenly has $1 trillion in his account. It’s just the thing that he made and has ownership of is suddenly worth that much.