Michael
@tralfagar.bsky.social
Build the mixed-use cube🏗️
Power it with spicy rocks⚛️
Be excellent to each other🧦
Taco trucks 🌮
Explore space🚀
Pay for it all by taxing dirt🔰
Power it with spicy rocks⚛️
Be excellent to each other🧦
Taco trucks 🌮
Explore space🚀
Pay for it all by taxing dirt🔰
Yes it is. $2k/mo, compounded annually at 6%, 8%, and 10% over 30 years (so if you start at 35 until 65) gets you to > $2m. That's more than enough for many people, especially if they have their house paid off at that time.
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yes it is. $2k/mo, compounded annually at 6%, 8%, and 10% over 30 years (so if you start at 35 until 65) gets you to > $2m. That's more than enough for many people, especially if they have their house paid off at that time.
If only there were a way we could have avoided this...
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If only there were a way we could have avoided this...
All the people who sat out 2024 need to realize this is the direct result of their inaction.
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
All the people who sat out 2024 need to realize this is the direct result of their inaction.
Picrel over and over. School too expensive? Don't look into schools being extortion rackets, just give people more money. Housing going up? Don't make any more housing, just 50 year loans & waive down payment. Repeat ad nauseum.
The only exception is healthcare...because the market doesn't work
The only exception is healthcare...because the market doesn't work
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Picrel over and over. School too expensive? Don't look into schools being extortion rackets, just give people more money. Housing going up? Don't make any more housing, just 50 year loans & waive down payment. Repeat ad nauseum.
The only exception is healthcare...because the market doesn't work
The only exception is healthcare...because the market doesn't work
Not to mention prices will go up because now more people can bid on homes. This is a clear scheme to transfer wealth from the poorer 30% who don't own a house to the richer 70% who do.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Not to mention prices will go up because now more people can bid on homes. This is a clear scheme to transfer wealth from the poorer 30% who don't own a house to the richer 70% who do.
Wanting lower housing costs is
*checks notes*
The work of the right
Or maybe abundance is just another antifa or BLM. A wide movement without any real leadership so anyone claiming to speak for it is only speaking for themselves.
*checks notes*
The work of the right
Or maybe abundance is just another antifa or BLM. A wide movement without any real leadership so anyone claiming to speak for it is only speaking for themselves.
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wanting lower housing costs is
*checks notes*
The work of the right
Or maybe abundance is just another antifa or BLM. A wide movement without any real leadership so anyone claiming to speak for it is only speaking for themselves.
*checks notes*
The work of the right
Or maybe abundance is just another antifa or BLM. A wide movement without any real leadership so anyone claiming to speak for it is only speaking for themselves.
Does CT claim that it is zoned almost exactly how people want to use it?
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Does CT claim that it is zoned almost exactly how people want to use it?
I agree with your sentiment, but that's not a plan to win. Everyone knew Trump would be an unmitigated disaster. And yet 15 million people preferred to stay home & let Trump win.
What's your plan to win a pop that leans right to begin with *and* a left that doesn't want to vote?
What's your plan to win a pop that leans right to begin with *and* a left that doesn't want to vote?
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I agree with your sentiment, but that's not a plan to win. Everyone knew Trump would be an unmitigated disaster. And yet 15 million people preferred to stay home & let Trump win.
What's your plan to win a pop that leans right to begin with *and* a left that doesn't want to vote?
What's your plan to win a pop that leans right to begin with *and* a left that doesn't want to vote?
Your cause and effect are backwards. Those cities are expensive *because* the jobs pay well. It doesn't matter if the jobs were spread out or not. This is because we tie housing directly to land usage. A plot with 1 house shall only ever have 1 home on it.
October 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Your cause and effect are backwards. Those cities are expensive *because* the jobs pay well. It doesn't matter if the jobs were spread out or not. This is because we tie housing directly to land usage. A plot with 1 house shall only ever have 1 home on it.
To be fair, it's not completely their fault they're idiots.
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
To be fair, it's not completely their fault they're idiots.
Apollo also cost $300b in today's money. Starship in contrast is about $10b to date. Ironically, Starship also has the much, much more technically impressive engine and more of them.
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Apollo also cost $300b in today's money. Starship in contrast is about $10b to date. Ironically, Starship also has the much, much more technically impressive engine and more of them.
About a 90% cost reduction to access space. A lot more projects pencil out at that point. Everything from university satellites to telecom like Starlink to pharmaceuticals.
October 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
About a 90% cost reduction to access space. A lot more projects pencil out at that point. Everything from university satellites to telecom like Starlink to pharmaceuticals.
>...testing a satellite in geostationary orbit, approximately 36,000km above Earth
Sounds more like a competitor of HughesNet than Starlink. Starlink operates much closer to the earth, about 500 km.
Sounds more like a competitor of HughesNet than Starlink. Starlink operates much closer to the earth, about 500 km.
September 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
>...testing a satellite in geostationary orbit, approximately 36,000km above Earth
Sounds more like a competitor of HughesNet than Starlink. Starlink operates much closer to the earth, about 500 km.
Sounds more like a competitor of HughesNet than Starlink. Starlink operates much closer to the earth, about 500 km.
No, it's labor & capital vs land. Mom and pops own about $40 trillion in US real estate. If you seized all the wealth of all US billionaires, you'd barely hit $6 trillion. What did you think housing appreciation is?
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
No, it's labor & capital vs land. Mom and pops own about $40 trillion in US real estate. If you seized all the wealth of all US billionaires, you'd barely hit $6 trillion. What did you think housing appreciation is?
How kind of Russia to completely gut their launch industry for the sake of appearances...
August 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
How kind of Russia to completely gut their launch industry for the sake of appearances...
There's still a chance
August 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
There's still a chance
Home ownership is a much bigger problem and the actual cause of societal decline. They control roughly 10x more wealth than all billionaires combined. Picrelated applies to every house in America. We just give it a pretty name: "Appreciation".
But it's stolen wages nonetheless.
But it's stolen wages nonetheless.
August 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Home ownership is a much bigger problem and the actual cause of societal decline. They control roughly 10x more wealth than all billionaires combined. Picrelated applies to every house in America. We just give it a pretty name: "Appreciation".
But it's stolen wages nonetheless.
But it's stolen wages nonetheless.
Wtf how can someone be so confidently wrong? SpaceX is by far the most reliable and frequent launch provider in history. Here's a quick comparison for 2024. Starship is still R&D, but SpaceX as an org knows how to get to orbit reliably & safely.
August 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Wtf how can someone be so confidently wrong? SpaceX is by far the most reliable and frequent launch provider in history. Here's a quick comparison for 2024. Starship is still R&D, but SpaceX as an org knows how to get to orbit reliably & safely.
Not really, unless you think that's what a typical homeowner looks like.
Protip: Top 60 percentile don't typically pay rent, but they do capture appreciation when their house sells. And another fun fact: Homeowners have a net worth of about 10x that of all domestic billionaires.
Protip: Top 60 percentile don't typically pay rent, but they do capture appreciation when their house sells. And another fun fact: Homeowners have a net worth of about 10x that of all domestic billionaires.
August 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not really, unless you think that's what a typical homeowner looks like.
Protip: Top 60 percentile don't typically pay rent, but they do capture appreciation when their house sells. And another fun fact: Homeowners have a net worth of about 10x that of all domestic billionaires.
Protip: Top 60 percentile don't typically pay rent, but they do capture appreciation when their house sells. And another fun fact: Homeowners have a net worth of about 10x that of all domestic billionaires.
I've got your vacancy tax right here. That single family home is keeping 6 housing units from being built and rented to other families.
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I've got your vacancy tax right here. That single family home is keeping 6 housing units from being built and rented to other families.
I had thought it was Hercules
August 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I had thought it was Hercules
TLDR which of the two pictured would you rather watch? That's the problem with Isekai. As a whole, it's a power fantasy for losers who want to pretend that the world will bend over for losers.
August 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
TLDR which of the two pictured would you rather watch? That's the problem with Isekai. As a whole, it's a power fantasy for losers who want to pretend that the world will bend over for losers.