Balaji Srinivasan

On the left, there's a lot of people who think you can just push a button to like end homelessness, end poverty, just take all Elon's money.

And they just don't do any math and they don't have any understanding of scarce resources, scarce resources in the physical world.

They don't understand scarce resources monetarily, right?

They just think it was a cornucopia, a bounteous mother.

Government is GOV is GOD, government is God, but the bounteous mother form of God, which can just hand out everything right.

And the rightists, while more realistic often, is subject to a different but symmetrical, somewhat symmetrical version of this, where they think if the leftist thinks there's infinite money, the rightist thinks there's infinite power.

The rightist does not viscerally understand, oh, I need to work for votes.

I need to get political support.

Just like the leftist doesn't understand scarce resource in the physical world, the rightist doesn't understand scarce resource in the digital world.

That they actually need to get all these people to agree with them that this is a good thing.

And you can't just point a gun at everybody, right?

And there's limits to just brute force.

All right, so can I show some slides, or should I get started?

You know, the thing is, so, like—

This guy actually had a decent TikTok, which I'll talk about in a second, by the way, which is funny.

Basically, he has like a million followers on TikTok since 2022.

He has never been a jingoistic nationalist on TikTok.

In fact, I actually can't think of a single pro-American thing or anti-Chinese thing he's ever posted on TikTok, right?

So all the patriotism, uber-patriot, whatever kind of thing, uber-nationalism is only on X, right?

And the persona on TikTok is a completely different person.