IDLE BOASTERS CAN'T RUN SANDWICH SHOP: Devon Eriksen critiques two groups seeking an extra trillion dollars for US government foreign policy or personal use and argues anyone claiming superior results must first operate a sandwich shop before gaining real power preferring innovation over even…
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Devon Eriksen pretty much hit the nail square in that post. It wouldn't even necessarily have to be a sandwich shop. Just any type of business, really. Operating a business successfully is a lot harder than these asshats think it is. Keeping it in the black, while also expanding it and branching out into other industries is even harder. Musk chose some of the hardest industries to build a business in, too. If no THR HARDEST. Not just hard from a technical standpoint, but hard to make a profit with. And he expanded all of them too. 3 companies started from the ground up. One of which directly benefits humanity by giving the poorest among us the same access to information as the richest. And another that will benefit us by allowing us to explore and expand ourselves beyond this planet.
I don't think I s pretty fucking awesome what he's been able to accomplish so far. He dared to dream big, but more importantly, he acted on those dreams successfully. And he has other dreams he wants to chase, too.
Personally, I'm interested to see what else the man can accomplish with basically what amounts to unlimited funding. All these naysayers and haters are just talking shit because they're jealous they don't have 1/10000th of his wealth. They're the same type of people you read about that win a giant lottery jackpot but end up flat broke within 5 yrs after winning. If they truly cared about humanity and the planet, they'd already be doing more about it than spewing and spreadin hate and vitriol like a shit truck sprays manure on a farm.
The biggest detractors of the successful tend to be those that achieve virtually nothing.
The basic premise of Devon’s response is a great idea that should be mandatory for any public servant involved with spending our money.
A huge amount of OUR so called “debt” is due to the mentality of people who spend with no regard to where that money came from.
The vast majority of public servants have and will never create wealth. They therefore have no concept of earned value.
We hear weekly about insane spending by them in Ireland, an example being €150,000 spent on a 6x2 meter bike shed. A bike shed built with tax payers money, that they are not allowed to use. It’s reserved for public servants.
It needs to stop.
Devon Eriksen responds to a claim that a trillion-dollar fortune would prompt immediate fixes for global housing food healthcare and happiness. He identifies two common types of idle boasters. One group seeks the money for the US government to accelerate foreign interventions and domestic imports. The other group wants the funds personally without showing prior results from existing wealth. Eriksen proposes that anyone claiming superior management must first demonstrate success running a small sandwich shop before receiving broader authority. He notes that statements of doing better cost nothing and prove little. With resources like those held by Elon Musk Eriksen would prioritize investment in emerging technologies rather than redistribution of current assets because the former advances human capability while the latter merely reallocates existing conditions. He concludes that fixing suffering holds greater value than distributing it evenly.
SOURCE: https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2065533566973521966 SOURCE (mirror): https://xcancel.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2065533566973521966
Who is this John Bourscheid?
So basically an employee who created nothing.
I think we can safely add envy and business to the list of things that Bourscheid does not understand! I am sure many believe that someone worth a lot of money has it all in a box under the bed.
In reality, that money will be mainly tied up in business and those businesses will be providing jobs for thousands and will already be improving their lives as a result.
In a way, I do sympathise with Karl Marx when he says the workers should own the means of production. Where we differ is that he seemed to think that meant that the business owners should just give it away or have it confiscated. My preferred approach would be to have anyone who wanted a share to either purchase it from the owner or create their own business.
This IPO gave workers the opportunity to do just that.
What a trillion dollars solves...0.
Id have a competition. Who ever( group or individual )can come up with most perfect plan to use $1 Trillion dollars towards to betterment of Humanity, wins it. There are limitations on how much can be taken for Administrative Overhead. The more efficiently the funds are disbursed, the higher an extra bonus is paid. This will get people thinking of profound solutions.