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This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

Le libéralisme, c'est la puanteur extrême ? Très bien. Faisons une démonstration que même un enfant de 8 ans peut comprendre. Et à la fin, on verra qui pue. Étape 1. En 1800, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Famine, mortalité infantile à 40%, espérance de vie de 30 ans. C'était la norme depuis 10 000 ans. La condition humaine, c'était ça : vivre vite, mourir tôt, enterrer ses enfants. Étape 2. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9% de l'humanité vit dans l'extrême pauvreté. L'espérance de vie mondiale est passée à 73 ans. La mortalité infantile est sous 4%. C'est la révolution la plus massive de l'histoire humaine. Aucune autre période n'arrive à la cheville de ces deux derniers siècles. Étape 3. Question simple. Qu'est-ce qui a changé entre 1800 et aujourd'hui ? Une seule chose. L'apparition d'économies fondées sur la propriété privée, le libre-échange, et la liberté entrepreneuriale. C'est-à-dire le libéralisme. Tout le reste (vaccins, électricité, agriculture moderne, antibiotiques) en est la conséquence directe. Étape 4. Le test grandeur nature de l'histoire. Allemagne de l'Est vs Allemagne de l'Ouest. Même peuple, même langue, même culture, séparés en 1945. Quarante ans plus tard, un Allemand de l'Ouest était trois fois plus riche, vivait plus longtemps, et était libre. Les Allemands de l'Est essayaient de fuir en escaladant un mur, pas l'inverse. Étape 5. Corée du Nord vs Corée du Sud. Même peuple, même langue, même culture, séparés en 1953. Aujourd'hui, le Sud-Coréen est quarante fois plus riche que le Nord-Coréen. Le Nord est une famine permanente. Le Sud produit Samsung, Hyundai, K-pop, et a sorti son peuple de la misère en deux générations. Étape 6. Hong Kong vs Chine maoïste. Même peuple, même langue, même culture. Hong Kong a appliqué le libéralisme dans sa version la plus pure pendant 40 ans. Résultat : passé du niveau de l'Afrique sub-saharienne à l'un des PIB par habitant les plus élevés au monde. Pendant que la Chine maoïste tuait 45 millions de ses propres citoyens dans le Grand Bond en avant. Étape 7. Et quand la Chine a libéralisé partiellement son économie après 1978, elle a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en 40 ans. Plus que toutes les politiques d'aide au développement de l'histoire combinées. La libéralisation a fait, à elle seule, ce que des trillions d'aide internationale n'ont jamais réussi à faire. Étape 8. Le palmarès des pays les plus libéraux du monde aujourd'hui (Suisse, Singapour, Danemark, Estonie, Pays-Bas, Irlande) : moins de pauvreté qu'ailleurs, plus de mobilité sociale qu'ailleurs, services publics mieux financés qu'ailleurs, et des inégalités plus faibles qu'en France. La France, championne du monde de la dépense publique à 57%, a une mobilité sociale plus faible que les États-Unis. Méditer cinq minutes. Étape 9. Les pays qui ont rejeté le libéralisme : URSS, Cuba, Venezuela, Corée du Nord, Cambodge des Khmers rouges, Chine maoïste, Zimbabwe de Mugabe. Bilan total : autour de 100 millions de morts au 20ème siècle, des famines à répétition, des effondrements économiques, et de la pauvreté de masse. Sans aucune exception. Étape 10. Conclusion. Le libéralisme n'est pas une "idéologie". C'est juste le constat empirique, vérifié sur 200 ans et sur des centaines de pays, que la liberté économique produit de la prospérité, et que la coercition étatique produit de la misère. Ce n'est pas une opinion. C'est une régularité scientifique aussi solide que la gravité. La phrase de Franck Delahaye sur "le Parisien qui marche sur un type mort dans la rue" est révélatrice. Elle révèle que pour les anti-libéraux, la richesse est forcément le résultat d'une violence. Ils ne peuvent littéralement pas concevoir qu'on puisse devenir riche en créant de la valeur pour les autres. Pour eux, toute richesse est volée par définition. C'est une vision théologique du monde, pas une analyse économique. Or c'est exactement l'inverse. Le libéralisme est le seul système qui force la création de richesse à passer par le service rendu aux autres. Personne n'est obligé d'acheter votre produit. Personne n'est obligé de travailler pour vous. Vous ne devenez riche qu'en convainquant des millions de gens, librement, que ce que vous offrez vaut plus que ce qu'ils donnent en échange. C'est le système le plus profondément moral jamais inventé. Toutes les autres formes d'enrichissement (rente, captation politique, corruption, héritage de privilèges) sont des trahisons du libéralisme, pas son essence. Donc, non, le libéralisme n'est pas la puanteur extrême. La puanteur extrême, c'est la pauvreté de masse maintenue par la planification étatique. C'est les enfants vénézuéliens qui mangent dans les poubelles. C'est les fosses communes nord-coréennes. C'est les famines soviétiques. C'est la France qui s'enfonce avec 113% de dette pendant que ses jeunes partent à Londres, Dubaï ou Lisbonne. Maintenant que tu as vu ça, je te conseille un premier livre. La Route de la Servitude, de Friedrich Hayek, 1944. Court, accessible, écrit pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par un homme qui voyait revenir en démocratie les mêmes mécanismes qu'il avait vus monter en Allemagne. Lis-le. Ça va te faire sortir de tes idées préconçues plus vite que dix ans de débat sur Twitter. Et ensuite on en reparle.

Franck Delahaye @FDMusic21

a month ago

@RomainRobi_ @JJBourdin_off @EricLarch @davidlisnard Le libéralisme, c’est la puanteur extrême. C’est, en réalité, ne penser qu’à sa gueule, piétiner les plus modestes et les ignorer ouvertement. C’est un peu le Parisien qui marche sur un type mort dans la rue, en lui donnant des coups de pied parce qu’il gêne le passage.

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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

@brivael What if ONE kid out of 100 owns more cards than 90 kids COMBINED!?!? How is this working out ? How is this helping the 90 kids? PS. This is the real US wealth distribution in 2026

"The evils of capitalism:"

A simple visual for kids (and adults) to understand delayed gratification.

Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 workouts, 100 bland meals, 100 hours of work, or 100 hard conversations. Embrace it as the cost of entry. The answers you seek are found in the actions you avoid.

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

You don't hate capitalism, you hate corporatism. You look at bailouts, subsidies, and firms that get rich through political access instead of honest competition, and you are right to feel disgusted. Capitalism lives or dies by voluntary exchange, by serving people well enough that they choose you over someone else. Corporatism works by fusing business with the state so failure gets cushioned, rivals get fenced out, and consumers get trapped. In one arrangement, profit follows value. In the other, profit follows influence.

3 more self-improvement hacks that actually work: 1) Remove friends who do not support the version of you you want to become 2) Take micro risk daily (try & fail) rather than macros risk (never try, never succeed) 3) Do not consume before you produce (daily min production goals)

Ieri m-am întâlnit cu niște prieteni. Au făcut un grătar, beri, povești din copilărie. Bineînțeles, am atins și zona politică și au început lamentările, că ne-au sărăcit, că ne rup taxele, că ne fură statul, ce mai, numai nenorociri! Asta în timp ce fiecare înfuleca friptura, bea bere, iar soțiile lor își făceau planuri de vacanță într-o țară exotică. M-am uitat la ei și mi-am dat seama că trăim cea mai mare victorie a percepției asupra realității. Suntem stra stra nepoții celor care, acum câteva secole, ascultau “materialele” preoților despre Rai în timp ce mureau de foame sau de ciumă. Atunci, religia funcționa ca un anestezic care îi convingea că e bine, deși era rău. Astăzi, am inversat polaritatea. “Materialele” noastre știrile, Facebook, X, TikTok, TV ne conving că trăim în iad, deși avem mâncare in frigider și rezervoarele mașinilor alimentate. Cei care chiar sunt distruși nu au confortul să se plângă la un grătar, ei sunt la nivel de supraviețuire tăcută. Noi, în schimb, am devenit sclavii unei manipulări bizare, ne trăim nefericirea dintr-o poziție de lux. Am învățat să ignorăm realitatea mesei pline de dragul unei povești despre dezastru. Se pare că hardware-ul nostru mental n-a mai primit un update de milenii, tot în povești credem, nu în ceea ce avem sub nas.

Capitalism is just the best system. When something is expensive, people rush in to make money. Supply explodes. It always leads to a surplus. Prices come down. That expensive thing is now cheap. Romans spent 75%of all their money on food. The Soviets spent 45%. The average American RIGHT NOW in 2026? 10%. Your great grandparents spent 20% of all their money on clothes. Now we have minimum wage workers ordering burrito taxis, doing haul videos on tik tok The only time this system breaks is when regulation stops it. Want cheaper houses? Build more. Want more expensive houses? Stop them from being built. Who wants more expensive houses? People who currently own houses. If there is excess margin, it will be extracted through competion IF THAT COMPETITION IS ALLOWED. This creates the incentive to capture power to stop competition. Our legal system, our politicians on both sides of the isle have been captured to stop competition in their own pet industries. This is leading to a bunch of teenagers thinking capitalism is failed. Or that we are at the late stages of it. There is no end of capitalism. Just the vines of political capture trying to choke it. If you want cheaper shit- You want less regulation and more capitalism. This is the only solve for housing, education, everything. Don’t let them promise you things they don’t have and can’t deliver.

Each day, spend some time on two things: 1. working toward something that will pay off years from now 2. appreciating something that is happening right now

Major cheat code for life: Finishing things. The world is full of half-written books, half-built businesses, and half-kept promises. You stand out by closing loops. By showing up. By doing what you said you’d do. Anyone can start, but few have the courage to finish.

C.S. Lewis’ guide to finding your real self

The idea that socialism is about “the workers owning the means of production” is one of the most successful lies ever sold. In practice, socialism always means the state owns the means of production, and the workers are just tools of the state. They don’t own. They don’t control. They don’t even get to choose. The state decides what to produce, who gets what, where you work, and how much you deserve. “Worker ownership” becomes a euphemism for bureaucratic control enforced by threat of violence. Socialism doesn’t liberate the worker. It nationalizes them.

My most important rule for life…

Socialism isn’t rising because capitalism failed. It’s rising because capitalism succeeded so well that people forgot what failure looks like. Capitalism created prosperity, comfort, innovation, and freedom on a scale humanity had never seen. And now, ironically, people raised in that prosperity feel entitled to it, as if it just happens by default, like oxygen. They complain about capitalism on smartphones built by global supply chains, sipping coffee from international markets, enjoying comforts previous generations couldn’t dream of. Their misery is often spiritual or existential, not material. But instead of confronting that, they blame the very system that gave them the luxury to whine. So yes, capitalism created the good times. The good times bred complacency. And complacency gave rise to people too soft and resentful to recognize that their solution, socialism, is the very thing that ends the good times. Capitalism made them free enough to choose. Socialism is them choosing chains, thinking it’s a hug.

Stelios Panagiotou @Panagiotou90St

11 months ago

Life under socialism is more miserable than life under capitalism.

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Capitalism has been so successful at eradicating poverty, hunger, and hardship that it gave rise to a generation utterly detached from the realities of production, trade, and effort. They’ve grown up in comfort, surrounded by abundance, and instead of gratitude, they respond with resentment, as if wealth is the natural state of things and capitalism is just getting in the way of even more. In any other era, these people would be forced to confront the consequences of their delusions. But capitalism, in its brilliance, has created so much surplus that even the most useless ideologues can eat well, live long, and tweet their hatred for markets from devices built by free enterprise. It’s the spoiled child biting the hand that feeds him, not out of hunger, but because he’s been fed too well for too long. They hate capitalism not because it failed, but because it succeeded so thoroughly that it protected them from ever having to grow up.

End of shift of a tower crane operator.