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Aim to be great in 10 years.
Build health habits today that lead to a great body in 10 years.
Build social habits today that lead to great relationships in 10 years.
Build learning habits today that lead to great knowledge in 10 years.
Long-term ~ secret weapon.
@JamesClear
Sam Dougall retweeted
This billboard wasn't allowed in public, so please don't look at it or retweet it. Thanks dutchbarn.com
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Tax the rich.
“New IRS data finds that the top 0.1% of taxpayers (roughly 154,000 returns) paid $440 billion in federal income taxes in their most recent year.
The bottom 80% paid $350 billion.
Meaning the top 0.1% paid more than the entire bottom 80% combined.” — h/t IRS, @Rothmus , @profstonge
For years I've written that the entire economy is heading on-chain, and that the smart contract networks are the only rails it can possibly run on.
Here's the thing people still haven't understood. Billions of AI agents are about to come online, and they're going to transact constantly... paying each other for compute, data, services, at a scale and speed no human market has ever seen.
The existing financial system physically cannot carry them. It’s too slow.
And it looks like institutions are catching on. Just last week:
Franklin Templeton called AI agents the “use case that finally drives blockchain adoption”
Coinbase's agent-payment rails got adopted by Google and Amazon.
Samsung put stablecoins in the Galaxy wallet.
David Solomon went against the rest of Wall Street to back the Clarity Act.
And this is just one week.
The rails are being laid, the machine economy is coming to run on them, and most people are still whinging over the daily price movements.
We're about to onboard billions of agents onto a financial system that didn't exist twenty years ago.
This is fucking wild.
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Income Tax (Federal)
Medicare Levy
Medicare Levy Surcharge (if applicable)
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Stamp Duty on Property Purchases
Land Tax (where applicable)
Council Rates
Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund (Victoria)
Payroll Tax (indirectly through employers)
Superannuation Contributions Tax
Superannuation Earnings Tax
Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
Tax on Bank Interest
Tax on Dividends
Tax on Foreign Investment Income
Cryptocurrency Capital Gains Tax
Fuel Excise
GST on Fuel
Motor Vehicle Registration Fees
Transport Accident Commission (TAC) Charge
Motor Vehicle Duty (Car Stamp Duty)
Luxury Car Tax (if applicable)
Alcohol Excise
Wine Equalisation Tax (WET)
GST on Alcohol
Tobacco Excise
GST on Tobacco
Insurance GST
Victorian Insurance Duty (where applicable)
Passenger Movement Charge (international departures)
Customs Duty (on certain imported goods)
Import GST (on imported goods)
Biosecurity Import Charges (embedded in imported goods)
Gambling Taxes (indirectly through reduced payouts)
Commercial Passenger Vehicle Levy (included in taxi and rideshare fares)
Environmental Levies (embedded in electricity, waste and other services)
Waste Disposal Levies (embedded in council rates and commercial waste charges)
Company Income Tax (indirectly through higher prices/lower wages)
Fringe Benefits Tax (indirectly through employment costs)
Payroll Tax Pass-through (higher prices and/or lower wages)
Import Tariffs (embedded in the price of some imported goods)
Excise on Certain Petroleum and Fuel Products
Luxury Tax Components Embedded in Certain Goods
Fire Services / Emergency Services Property Levy (through the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund)
Road User Charges (for certain heavy vehicles and, where applicable, some EV charging schemes in other jurisdictions)
Airport Security and Government Aviation Charges (embedded in airline tickets)
Various Regulatory Levies Embedded in Utility Bills (electricity, gas and water)
Various Industry-Specific Government Levies Passed Through in Consumer Prices (banking, telecommunications, waste, etc.)
Sam Dougall retweeted
OK Australia; own up. 🤷🏼♂️
Come clean. Declare yourself. 📣
Who are the 5 million rusted-on numbskulls still voting Labor❓
Wild.
In Belgium, it's effectively illegal to say that diversity isn't our greatest strength.
X: @PrisonPlanet
Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Zf89IDph…
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Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World on Dell Deskside Agentic AI: agents running securely in an OpenShell sandbox, local models on Dell infrastructure, and Dell Services to get you to production fast. Every model. No token anxiety.
Make it make sense @AlboMP + @JEChalmers
Wild
When the govt fucks every taxpayer in the upcoming budget, here is where your money has been going 👇@GeoffWilsonWAM @TwinTurboCe1ica @bowtiedstocks
Int
eresting.
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive
Wild.
Replying to @samstrades @ClareONeilMP
and also this, net #immigration down however long term arrivals massively up, you're a scumbag party and you will get obliterated in the next election
Top listen.
If you really want to understand why the financial system will always extract upwards, you must watch my pod with @LynAldenContact.
There is no escaping the mechanics of the economic system. Endless debt. Endless inflation.
Link for the full show 👇
































