Aaron Lage

Name one? How about a few? Rockefeller lowered the cost of kerosene through efficient refining and distribution. Ford made automobiles affordable through mass production. Carnegie reduced steel production costs through industrial innovation. Walton lowered retail prices through bulk purchasing and efficient logistics. Dell made computers cheaper by eliminating retail intermediaries. Kamprad made furniture affordable through flat-pack manufacturing and distribution. Bezos intensified retail competition through Amazon. Koum made international messaging practically free through WhatsApp. Page and Brin made search, navigation, email, and translation available without direct charges. And that's barely scratching the surface. In fact, it would be considerably more challenging to find a billionaire who earned their fortune through voluntary trade without lowering costs, improving quality, increasing productivity, or making something more accessible. That's how fortunes are generally made in competitive markets. You create value for others, and the more people you serve, the greater your potential reward. You don't even have to buy from these businesses to benefit. Their competitors must improve their offerings or risk losing customers. These clout chasers destroy their credibility daily without so much as flinching. They enjoy the accumulated benefits of capitalist innovation while confidently demanding evidence that any of it ever happened. The economic illiteracy would be impressive if it weren't so commonplace.

the idea of physical junk mail is fascinating nobody wants it. it gets a near 100% negative reaction. there are no people on the pro junk mail side saying "please send me more crap." the entire experience is: print a million pieces of junk -> pay the post office to deliver them to people who don't want it -> the person on the receiving end is responsible for throwing it away... it's a glorified garbage conveyer belt the response rate is like 2-4% at best... which means 96 to 98% of us regular people are subjected to a daily onslaught of total garbage so that one person in about 200,000 can find a deal on someone to power wash their driveway. insane, stupid system. should disappear.

The grammatical 'colon' and the anatomical 'colon' are not etymologically related. The anatomical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kolon’ which means “large intestine.” The grammatical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kōlon’ which means “limb.” Both are a means to an end.

To those who insist on citing Josephus as a witness to anything Jesus:

For the record, Servetus wasn't murdered. He committed a capital crime (heresy) and was executed for it. Calvin didn't make the final decision to execute him. SERVETUS espoused heresy and it got him killed by the Geneva City Council. Was it right? I don't know. Was it legal? Yes.

I don’t care what anyone says, wired earphones were better. No charging, no Bluetooth randomly disconnecting, no one ear dying before the other, no bullshit. You plugged them in and they just fcking worked. Technology really complicated something that wasn’t broken.

Money won’t matter but @elonmusk went to court to get the biggest pay package in human history.

I am again noting that twitter is not reality.

There's something odd about being so self-righteous when you're so wrong. Mamdani is, of course, correct, and Posobiec is wrong - New York was the first capital of the United States of America.

You know all those stories about people who diagnose their maladies using AI, even when a doctor can't? Here's mine. A couple weeks ago, I developed terrible hip pain. My father had just died. I had to travel to MN. I did not have time to see a doctor. So I AI'd it. Bursitis. 🧵

Anyway, capital gains should be taxed like ordinary income.

A woman on Instagram said: My husband and I go out to dinner and order lobster dishes at $50 each and the table next to us order burgers at $15 each. Why do we have to leave a bigger tip than the other table when we had the same waitress and got the same service?