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ELON MUSK: WHY HUMAN PROGRESS REQUIRES DELETING RULES “Civilizations stagnate when rules only accumulate and never get removed. Laws are like code—without deletion, you end up with bloatware. Progress requires actively questioning and sunsetting regulations.” Progress isn’t usually blocked by a lack of ideas—it’s blocked by layers of old... show more

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57,044 views • 7 months ago

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Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio why—in order to "transition the whole world to sustainable energy"—governments need to impose a carbon tax. "The scientific fact of the matter is we are unavoidably headed towards some level of harm. So the sooner we can take action, the less harm will result." "And if government sets the rules to favour sustainable energy, we can get there really quickly... And the only way to do that is basically with a carbon tax."

Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio why—in order to "transition the whole world to sustainable energy"—governments need to impose a carbon tax. "The scientific fact of the matter is we are unavoidably headed towards some level of harm. So the sooner we can take action, the less harm will result." "And if government sets the rules to favour sustainable energy, we can get there really quickly... And the only way to do that is basically with a carbon tax."

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699,565 views • 2 years ago

ELON: FREE SPEECH SHOULD ONLY BE LIMITED BY LAW “People should be allowed to say things that are within the law. If the law isn't good enough, then great, well, talk to your elected representative and have them pass a law to change that. But otherwise we need to hold true to the Constitution and the laws and allow people to say things even if we don't like what they say. Obviously, the true test for free speech is when someone says something you don't like, because otherwise it's obviously not free speech.” Source: Elon Musk, Interview with Ben Shapiro, January 2024

ELON: FREE SPEECH SHOULD ONLY BE LIMITED BY LAW “People should be allowed to say things that are within the law. If the law isn't good enough, then great, well, talk to your elected representative and have them pass a law to change that. But otherwise we need to hold true to the Constitution and the laws and allow people to say things even if we don't like what they say. Obviously, the true test for free speech is when someone says something you don't like, because otherwise it's obviously not free speech.” Source: Elon Musk, Interview with Ben Shapiro, January 2024

Mario Nawfal

24,170 views • 5 months ago

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AOC: "Think that Prime Minister carney's remarks that the World Economic Forum were, um, were words that run around the world in raising this question. But I think that also, in his remarks, as long and as well as part of this larger conversation, there was this undertone, this undercurrent, this suggestion that it was a rules, based order sometimes. And I think that that is the, the issue that lies before us is that in a in a so called rules, based order, the rules for whom, because for all too long, the rules only applied to the United States, europe, its allies, and we would carve out exceptions for the global South. And I think that when you have a rules, based order where you carve out exceptions to our values, exceptions to our rules, eventually the exceptions become the rules. And I think that, to your original point, over the last five years, we've seen such a breaking and such a fraying of these alleged Western values that people wonder if it ever existed in the first place. So I don't know if it's necessarily that we were in a post, if we are in a post, rules based order, I think it's possible that we were in a pre rules based order, and we have an opportunity to explore what a world would look like if we upheld democracy. Human rights, trade that actually centers working class people, instead of accruing overwhelmingly the benefits of trade to the wealthiest Um. But if we reoriented a new era that could actually help people and show how foreign policy and healthy foreign policy can show up and help them in their lives."

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794,575 views • 5 months ago