My four year-old already makes surprisingly insightful connections; I have no doubt that a 10 year-old could say this!

I’ve switched to praising skill rather than talent

Skill is earned, talent is given, and even the talented most work hard to become truly skilled

The benefits are many and significant!

Less crime to worry about and shield against, fewer negative interactions with people who resent your wealth, less chance of communicable disease spreading to your family, etc.

@mcuban.bsky.social what motivates you to oppose this administration?

And how do we motivate other ultra-wealthy people to oppose authoritarianism?

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Yes, but sometimes making money means fighting hard for your client against opposing counsel (or you get dropped for a firm that will).

My main hope is that most firms realize capitulation to Trump at this moment is not so much a slippery slope as a cliff overlooking a yawning abyss.

Ironically, the truth is that Orwell never said this. It was written by Selwyn Duke, a right wing freelance writer:

www.reuters.com/article/fact...

Also, many manufacturers may decide to halt production rather than relocate facilities to the US, as they may assume the tariffs will be repealed (either by Trump or his successor) within 4 years

It’s more like “but at least we’ll hunt down the people we encouraged you to hate”

“Enemies” suggests their targets have done them harm

Maybe Trump and Elon are not ignoring this fact; seems like a great opportunity for big business to permanently crush their SMB competition

They may go out of business anyway, since higher prices on nonessential goods means fewer customers willing to purchase them

No escaping the fallout of these policies, unfortunately

Listen to what GOP used to say

“A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

– Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”
– Some Unqualified Moron