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# ![@RockChartrand Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1060661430008115200.png) @RockChartrand Rock Chartrand🤑

Rock Chartrand appears to be involved in discussions about economics, socialism, and capitalism, although specific details about him are not provided in the tweets. The conversations mostly revolve around criticisms of socialism and praise for capitalism, with users arguing that socialism leads to inefficiencies and stifles innovation, while capitalism promotes freedom, progress, and wealth creation. Key points include the perceived failures of socialist systems and the benefits of private ownership and free markets.

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### Top Social Posts
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"Socialism is the belief that your personal inconveniences are moral emergencies that justify violating other peoples rights. Instead of solving their own problems socialists demand the legal power to conscript other peoples time money and effort. Every frustration becomes a claim on someone elses life. Every need becomes a pretext for coercion. Then they have the audacity to accuse others of exploitation while living off what they never earned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995926981050048867)  2025-12-02T18:44Z 10.1K followers, 14.8K engagements


"It isnt the rich hoarding wealth. Wealth doesnt vanish into a vault like communist cartoons. It circulates through investment payroll savings loans and production. Profit only exists by creating more value than you started with. The only institution that actually hoards and destroys wealth is the government. It confiscates what others built wastes most of it on bureaucracy and then blames the people it loots for the stagnation it caused. If anyone is sucking resources out of the economy and sitting on them its the state. And unlike the rich it produces nothing to refill the pot. The idea that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994451175232389167)  2025-11-28T16:59Z 10.1K followers, 32.3K engagements


"Humans didnt pay to live for thousands of years. Correct and for thousands of years humans barely lived at all. They lived short brutal desperate lives. If you believe in the labor theory of value then pre-capitalist humans paid far more than anyone today: They paid with: little to no medical care high infant mortality starvation as a seasonal norm no specialization no mobility no private property no savings no upward progress You want to talk about paying to live They paid everything and got almost nothing in return. Capitalism is the system where: your effort produces exponential results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997043353251143782)  2025-12-05T20:40Z 10.1K followers, 22.6K engagements


"A man from Vietnam where the ruling party cannot legally be criticized where journalists disappear where elections are theater lecturing Americans about conditional freedom is like someone in a desert complaining that Fiji water isnt cold enough. Heres the reality hes desperately evading: In Vietnam there is a criminal code for criticizing the state. Article XXX of their penal code: Making storing distributing or disseminating information documents and items against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Punishable by up to XX years. That is what conditional freedom actually looks like. Contrast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997811324479291540)  2025-12-07T23:31Z 10.1K followers, 20.7K engagements


"Its not a secret at all. Its the most publicly advertised transaction in politics. Every election cycle you see: politicians promising to take from one group and hand benefits to another group in exchange for votes compliance or funding Thats not hidden. Its the entire business model of modern politics. Theres no need for a secret cabal of the homeless. The mechanism is openly stated: We will tax producers employers and successful individuals to fund your income housing healthcare and debt relief just vote for us. Thats not conspiracy thats legislation. People who want government to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997338011625820603)  2025-12-06T16:11Z 10.1K followers, 9334 engagements


"Communists post stuff like this to reassure their own side emotionally not intellectually. They need to imply that liberalism is helpless and nave and that fascism is somehow its protectorbecause if they admitted the truth theyd have to acknowledge that: Liberalism (even the watered-down modern version) is what actually gave them every freedom they exploitspeech property due process voluntary association. Fascism is simply their mirror image: collectivist coercion dressed in different symbols. The only distinction is which tribe gets sacrificed and who gets called the enemy. So they turn it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998085802497069417)  2025-12-08T17:42Z 10.1K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Communism is anti- for the following reasons It rejects individual rights the core of philosophy. It denies the right to private property. It denies the right to free speech unless the Party approves it. It treats the individual as a tool of the state. It abolishes voluntary exchange. It replaces consent with coercion. It destroys the idea that you own your life. It demands that your work belongs to the collective. It declares equality of outcome more important than equality of rights. It elevates envy into a political program. It turns productive people into state-owned resources. It"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994064248222200257)  2025-11-27T15:22Z 10K followers, 1923 engagements


"Communism is anti- for the following reasons It rejects individual rights the core of philosophy. It denies the right to private property. It denies the right to free speech unless the Party approves it. It treats the individual as a tool of the state. It abolishes voluntary exchange. It replaces consent with coercion. It destroys the idea that you own your life. It demands that your work belongs to the collective. It declares equality of outcome more important than equality of rights. It elevates envy into a political program. It turns productive people into state-owned resources. It"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994064271974543768)  2025-11-27T15:22Z 10.1K followers, 14K engagements


"Marxism is anti-bourgeois theory written by a bourgeois intellectual funded by bourgeois money and designed to crown a new bourgeois elite. Marx wasnt a worker. He wasnt oppressed. He wasnt living the life he romanticized. He was a failed academic living off handouts from a wealthy factory owner. Thats the core truth: Marxism didnt come from the working class. It came from a man who never worked in the way he demanded others should. A man who condemned capitalists while surviving entirely on capitalist wealth. A man who attacked the ruling class while imagining himself part of the new ruling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994079049979773167)  2025-11-27T16:21Z 10.1K followers, 6377 engagements


"They say Social Security would be fully affordable if the rich just paid the same rate as everyone else. That alone exposes the scam. The rich would be forced to pay massively more into the system while getting a tiny fraction of the benefit which proves the system cannot sustain itself on its own terms. It only survives by treating people as cash cows. If Social Security actually worked it wouldnt need that kind of cross-subsidy. It would stand on the contributions people already made. Instead they admitwithout understanding itthat the government mismanaged the money spent what it was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994481421235147219)  2025-11-28T19:00Z 10.1K followers, 1750 engagements


"They claim capitalism kills anyone who tries an alternative but the only thing capitalism does is offer you a voluntary way to live. Trade consent contract choice. Nothing stops them from forming communes co-ops or collectives inside a capitalist society. They can pool their resources share everything abolish private property among themselves and call it utopia. They are perfectly free to do it. The problem is that their alternative always requires forcing everyone else to live the same way. It requires seizing property banning profit outlawing voluntary exchange and punishing anyone who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994847178955919603)  2025-11-29T19:13Z 10K followers, 1544 engagements


"By socialist standards Amazon is too big and must be broken up because its worth over $X trillion. But the government which is $XX trillion in the hole which means youre $XX trillion in the hole is somehow perfectly fine. A voluntary company with no power to compel you is a threat but a bankrupt monopoly with unlimited power to tax regulate seize and print is treated like a guardian. Only a socialist could look at a successful business and scream danger then look at the largest most indebted institution on Earth and scream more of that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994955450681352421)  2025-11-30T02:23Z 10K followers, 39.9K engagements


"If you really want to talk about nothing trickling down maybe start with the long list of things that most households didnt even have in 1965 but now the poor carry them in their pockets. Heres what capitalism failed to trickle down: Air conditioning (barely XX percent of homes had it) Color TVs Microwaves (invented but almost nobody owned one) Personal computers Smartphones Wi-Fi GPS for civilians Streaming services Cloud storage Home printers Dishwashers High-efficiency laundry machines LED lighting Home smoke detectors Seatbelts in every car Reliable refrigeration and freezers Cordless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994963248622215588)  2025-11-30T02:54Z 10K followers, 186.2K engagements


"They always blame corporate greed because it keeps them from having to explain the one thing actually raising your cost of living. Governments print money restrict supply inflate your currency tax everything you touch regulate production into scarcity and then call the consequences greed. If billionaires had the power they claim prices would be falling not rising. Competition forces businesses to earn your dollar by making things cheaper and better. Its only when the state steps in that you get rising costs shrinking value and politicians pretending theyre saving you from a crisis they"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995526191353143755)  2025-12-01T16:11Z 10.1K followers, 2746 engagements


"Confiscate every dollar of the Starbucks CEOs XX million and hand it to the workers and you get maybe XX to XX cents more per hour for a year. The math says the CEO is not the problem. But Robert prefers to deal in emotion particularly envy entitlement and resentment rather than actual numbers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995593591637655592)  2025-12-01T20:39Z 10.1K followers, 4272 engagements


"It isnt that Bernie fears AI will only benefit billionaires. Its that he fears it might benefit billionaires at all. Anything that could raise productivity lower costs or expand opportunities gets treated as a threat the moment it might help the people hes built a career demonizing. If it lifts everyone but also lifts the successful hell still demand it be throttled. His problem isnt AI. Its the possibility that progress doesnt require his permission and doesnt redistribute through him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995905415054246234)  2025-12-02T17:18Z 10.1K followers, 1773 engagements


"Im not a fan of welfare but in this age of entitlement we never talk about the part that actually matters. The people who truly cant help themselves could be supported easily through voluntary charity. What drains the system isnt them. Its the able bodied socialists who treat subsidies as a lifestyle and obsess over hoarding every benefit they can grab. They claim compassion while crowding out the very people welfare was supposed to help. They call it solidarity but its just entitlement with a moral mask. If dependence werent glorified and if welfare were reserved for the genuinely needy no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996571609549680741)  2025-12-04T13:25Z 9959 followers, 3901 engagements


"Zero sum envious parasitic economic illiteracy is the greatest trick. They look at how much others have and decide that must be the reason they struggle as if wealth is a fixed pie and someone else having more means you have less. The richest become wealthy by creating things people willingly buy. The reason gas groceries rent and healthcare cost more isnt because billionaires exist. Its because politicians inflate the currency restrict supply mandate costs and regulate entire industries into dysfunction. The real trick is blaming creators for the damage caused by the people who control money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996585887618970098)  2025-12-04T14:22Z 10.1K followers, 3157 engagements


"Its funny how they say we can afford when the people saying it are already getting more out of tax revenue than they put in. When anyone gets a handout rich or poor its mostly subsidized by billionaires. When a billionaire gets a subsidy its a fraction of their own money. When they demand free healthcare or free education its only free for them because theyd never be able to pay for it so someone else must. Thats representation without taxation which is exactly what theyre demanding"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996636514629914697)  2025-12-04T17:43Z 9986 followers, 1118 engagements


"Nobody lost $XX trillion. Reich just assumes workers were entitled to money they never earned. The top earners didnt get richer because the bottom lost anything. They got richer by building companies taking risks and creating value that didnt exist before. There isnt a vault labeled worker wages that billionaires raided. That $XX trillion is just Reichs fantasy of what he wishes wages had been if innovation and competition didnt exist. You dont get billionaire income without doing billionaire work. You didnt lose it because you never earned it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996798237924020726)  2025-12-05T04:26Z 9986 followers, 1412 engagements


"Nobody lost $XX trillion. Reich just assumes workers were entitled to money they never earned. The top earners didnt get richer because the bottom lost anything. They got richer by building companies taking risks and creating value that didnt exist before. There isnt a vault labeled worker wages that billionaires raided. That $XX trillion is just Reichs fantasy of what he wishes wages had been if innovation and competition didnt exist. You dont get billionaire income without doing billionaire work. You didnt lose it because you never earned it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996798255070412833)  2025-12-05T04:26Z 10K followers, 6012 engagements


"So selling someone food shelter medicine or other basics voluntarily is taking advantage of them. But forcing third parties under threat of fines confiscation or imprisonment to subsidize those same needs isnt exploitation Charging a price for something you produced is called trade. Forcing someone to pay for things they didnt consume is called coercion. The irony is that profit requires value creation. You have to offer something people want more than the money they give you. Subsidies require nothing. Just need. Demand. And political force. If its exploitation to voluntarily exchange value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996807476201640430)  2025-12-05T05:02Z 10K followers, 5437 engagements


"@wh19134 @AlecBell5826 Your taxes dont even pay the interest on the debt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996932080945516787)  2025-12-05T13:18Z 9966 followers, XX engagements


"Socialists love to say if wages kept up with inflation minimum wage would be $25/hr today. Great. So who caused the inflation The same politicians they vote for. The same spending they demand. The same free handouts they celebrate. The same regulations that suffocate productivity. The same monetary policy that prints trillions to subsidize dependence. Businesses didnt inflate the currency. Politicians and voters did. If you believe inflation robbed your wage value then you're admitting that government theft destroyed your purchasing power. So why is your anger aimed at the employer who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996940085640446264)  2025-12-05T13:49Z 10.1K followers, 6059 engagements


"Short-term greed raises prices because it assumes customers are stuck. Long-term greed lowers prices and increases value because it assumes customers are free. The irrational mindset asks How much can I squeeze today The rational one asks How much value can I deliver so people keep choosing me tomorrow One of the first rules of business: If you dont treat the customer well someone else will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996954728840757552)  2025-12-05T14:48Z 10K followers, XXX engagements


"@MikeCanning7 Why is it your business what they do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996954832096104905)  2025-12-05T14:48Z 9980 followers, 1576 engagements


"They cry that the X% got it all while the X% pay about half of all federal income taxes and well over half of spending doesnt go to them. So when someone pays massively more than they receive calling a tax cut a handout only makes sense if you view that person as your property. Capitalism didnt create $XX trillion in debt. Government did by spending money it never earned on programs not tied to those who actually fund them. Capitalism doesnt run deficits. Politicians do. Capitalism doesnt promise benefits to everyone with money taken from someone else. Socialism does. Debt isnt the byproduct"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996956733864902705)  2025-12-05T14:56Z 9990 followers, 1316 engagements


"An overdraft fee isnt theft its the cost of spending money you dont have. The bank is fronting funds that belong to someone else and charging a fee for taking that risk. Youre not being robbed. Youre being loaned money on demand with instant access and the price for that service was disclosed beforehand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996965202915471556)  2025-12-05T15:29Z 10.1K followers, 14.2K engagements


"You could add 70000 workers and Social Security still wouldnt work. A system that requires endless new bodies just to postpone collapse isnt working its a Ponzi scheme propped up by paperwork. Only in government can insolvency be treated as success as long as we keep paying more people to shuffle forms. You dont fix structural deficit by hiring clerks you fix it by ending an entitlement that mathematically cannot sustain itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997093583027839037)  2025-12-05T23:59Z 10.1K followers, 1195 engagements


"@bayekand What does someone else getting a loan have anything to do with you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997106812944834932)  2025-12-06T00:52Z 9993 followers, XXX engagements


"The only genocide in history where the population increased the aggressors still openly call for extermination and the defenders who could wipe out their enemy in days if they wanted to are accused of genocide. Genocide is about intent. Hamas has the intent but not the means and that includes against Palestinians themselves because dead civilians serve their propaganda. Israel has the means yet never exercises it proving the intent isnt genocide it's self-defense. The side that wants peace isnt the side chanting for and relentlessly acting towards death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997116217258107388)  2025-12-06T01:29Z 10.1K followers, 4402 engagements


"@KyleAnders0l5 Like what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997411897235120332)  2025-12-06T21:04Z 10K followers, 1610 engagements


"People complain about having a hundred choices of coffee creamer and no healthcare as if abundance is the problem. They never stop to notice that the creamer aisle exists because it isnt controlled by the government. If they could get past the parasitic envy they were taught to feel toward anyone who succeeds and past the economic illiteracy that tells them choice is a burden theyd realize something simple. The same freedom that gives them a dozen shelves of flavored creamers would give them a hundred competing healthcare options. The only reason they dont have that today is the very system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994508166222975206)  2025-11-28T20:46Z 10.1K followers, 2513 engagements


"They claim capitalism kills anyone who tries an alternative but the only thing capitalism does is offer you a voluntary way to live. Trade consent contract choice. Nothing stops them from forming communes co-ops or collectives inside a capitalist society. They can pool their resources share everything abolish private property among themselves and call it utopia. They are perfectly free to do it. The problem is that their alternative always requires forcing everyone else to live the same way. It requires seizing property banning profit outlawing voluntary exchange and punishing anyone who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994847217207640514)  2025-11-29T19:13Z 10.1K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Capitalism is value creation through rational self-interest. It rewards the people who produce innovate and trade. Prosperity becomes the natural outcome of ability. Socialism is value destruction dressed up as short-term compassion. It trades production for entitlement incentives for envy and responsibility for dependence. The result is always the same: decay resentment and eventual self-destruction. One system builds. The other consumes. Only one can sustain a civilization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996238448395452497)  2025-12-03T15:21Z 10.1K followers, XXX engagements


"You can't be robbed of a wage no one ever agreed to pay you. You applied for a job accepted the terms and got exactly what you voluntarily signed up for. That isn't robbery it's trade. And calling it exploitation because you can't dictate terms after the fact turns your own lack of leverage into someone elses moral crime. This entire worldview depends on pretending that effort skill and value don't exist so that failure can be blamed on anyone except the person who failed. Socialists keep inventing new words for my choices have consequences and then insist someone else has to carry those"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996293820514971954)  2025-12-03T19:01Z 10.1K followers, 6473 engagements


"Unpopular opinion You dont have to agree with the accuracy of their interpretation to notice this: many justify sacrificing the individual to the collective using religious morality. The language changed common good public interest but the ethic remained: virtue means self-denial duty and service to something outside yourself. When morality starts with sacrifice coercion becomes moral and freedom becomes immoral. Thats why collectivists never argue from rights or earned value they argue from obligation. Their politics is just theology without the pulpit. Once public good is accepted as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996967819607445614)  2025-12-05T15:40Z 10.1K followers, XXX engagements


"I always find it funny when the people who want to rule others confiscate their earnings and live off them in the name of the common good start lecturing anyone about greed. Nothing screams greed more than demanding the right to spend other peoples lives earnings and effort for your preferred version of balance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997109437559894313)  2025-12-06T01:02Z 10.1K followers, 1225 engagements


"Heres the brutal truth that Reich will never admit: Everything on that list makes life less affordable because everything on that list increases the cost of production housing labor and capital. Point-by-point: Bust up monopolies Give regulators arbitrary power So the politically-favored firms win just like they always do. The government becomes the monopoly. Boost unions Make hiring costlier Which means fewer people hired slower growth higher unemployment and higher consumer prices. $20/hr federal minimum wage Price floor far above market value People whose productivity is below that rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997410776928133498)  2025-12-06T21:00Z 10.1K followers, 2968 engagements


"Unrealized gains arent income. Theyre imaginary values that exist only on paper not in anyones wallet. You cant tax something that doesnt exist yet because no one has earned it received it or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might have someday even though it could vanish tomorrow. It means punishing success before its actually realized before anything is sold delivered or converted into actual income. What youre demanding isnt fairness its emotional retaliation. Its envy dressed up as policy. You want to seize wealth not because value was taken from anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996806646320837087)  2025-12-05T04:59Z 10.1K followers, 4615 engagements


"Capitalism is the system of consent. You arent trapped in voluntary exchange. You choose your job you choose your employer you choose what to buy you choose what to offer. The only thing you never consented to is the state taking your money regulating your life and forcing you into systems you didnt want. The irony is that the people who scream about non-consensual capitalism always defend the one thing that actually removes consent. They want a system where your work your time and your property are taken from you by force and they call that liberation. Nothing reveals the mindset faster than"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1993459860781097336)  2025-11-25T23:20Z 10.1K followers, 98.9K engagements


"People talk about U.S. aid to Israel like its charity. It isnt. Its an exchange where the return on investment massively exceeds the cost. First. Most of the money never leaves the United States. About three-quarters of aid to Israel must be spent on American defense contractors. It creates U.S. jobs R and D and industrial capacity. Its basically a subsidy to American manufacturing. Second. Israel provides the United States with the best intelligence in the Middle East on Iran Hezbollah Hamas Russia and regional terror networks. That intelligence saves billions in U.S. operations and prevents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994069153888530844)  2025-11-27T15:41Z 10.1K followers, 31.9K engagements


"Trickle-down Buddy were drowning in it. Free communication & information Free long-distance calling Free video calling Free international messaging Free email Free texting apps Free cloud storage tiers Free GPS navigation Free real-time traffic maps Free translation apps Free educational YouTube channels Free online encyclopedias Free Khan Academy Free Wikipedia Free open-source textbooks Free college-level MIT courses (OCW) Free language-learning apps Free entertainment Free music streaming tiers Free podcasts Free video streaming platforms Free indie games Free online chess Free news apps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1994933968412590436)  2025-11-30T00:58Z 10.1K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Late stage capitalism is really just early stage socialism. Every problem you blame on markets comes from the states power to interfere distort and pick winners. But instead of stopping and reflecting socialists double down. The more government creates the very conditions they complain about the more they demand even more of the thing that caused it. Its ideological autopilot. No thinking no introspection just reflexive calls for the same poison in a higher dose. There's no such thing as late stage capitalism or state capitalism theres just capitalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995190435233374496)  2025-11-30T17:57Z 10.1K followers, 21.6K engagements


"The only reason Ayn Rand wrote fiction was because she understood something Marx never did. You cannot preach a system built on coercion and envy without disguising it as a fairy tale. Marx wrote a fantasy about a world with production but no producers wealth but no property incentives but no self-interest. The only fiction here is the idea that capitalism needs a novelist while socialism survives without one. Rand wrote novels to dramatize principles rooted in reality. Marx wrote an economic theory that only works if reality is ignored. One side used fiction to illustrate truth. The other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1995878616974975335)  2025-12-02T15:31Z 10.1K followers, 72K engagements


"If youre arguing that China is socialist because its run by central planning and state ownership then you cant also claim socialism is for the working class or about worker ownership. China proves the opposite. The state owns everything the political class controls everything and the working class owns nothing. That isnt empowerment. Its nationalized dependence. And the irony is brutal. The same people who scream about crony capitalism in mixed economies turn around and praise the purest form of cronyism on earth. They condemn private influence while worshipping a system where all influence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996196224425181616)  2025-12-03T12:34Z 10.1K followers, 25.9K engagements


"Matt loves to posture as the rugged tough minded truth teller but his worldview is indistinguishable from the leftist snowflakes he condemns. They both start from the same premise that life is getting worse that modernity is decay that prosperity is an illusion and that someone else needs to fix it for them. The only difference is the branding. It is especially rich coming from a man who lives better than ninety nine percent of the country and better than any human being who lived before cellphones. He has instant access to food medicine entertainment global communication on demand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996667895544205597)  2025-12-04T19:48Z 10.1K followers, 45.5K engagements


"Saying no job should pay less than $18/hr is like saying no house should cost less than $500k. It doesnt raise value it bans anything below it. If someone produces $12/hr of value and the law forces $18/hr that job isnt upgraded its eliminated. Minimum wage advocates pretend skills and productivity appear because politicians pick a number. Theyre not helping workers theyre outlawing low-skill workers from employment so they can feel moral. If wages feel too low increase your value. Dont criminalize reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996772680607912360)  2025-12-05T02:44Z 10.1K followers, 29.3K engagements


"Unrealized gains arent income. Theyre imaginary values that exist only on paper not in anyones wallet. You cant tax something that doesnt exist yet because no one has earned it received it or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might have someday even though it could vanish tomorrow. It means punishing success before its actually realized before anything is sold delivered or converted into actual income. What youre demanding isnt fairness its emotional retaliation. Its envy dressed up as policy. You want to seize wealth not because value was taken from anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996806665362915780)  2025-12-05T04:59Z 10.1K followers, 49K engagements


"An overdraft fee isnt theft its the cost of spending money you dont have. The bank is fronting funds that belong to someone else and charging a fee for taking that risk. Youre not being robbed. Youre being loaned money on demand with instant access and the price for that service was disclosed beforehand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996965216983077078)  2025-12-05T15:29Z 10.1K followers, 43.8K engagements


"If greedy CEOs really had all the leverage and could pay everyone minimum wage then almost everyone would earn minimum wage. But fewer than X% do. That one fact destroys the narrative. Why Because wages arent donations theyre exchanges. A business must pay less than or equal to the value a worker produces or the job cant exist. A worker making $25/hr is producing more than $25/hr for the business. If they werent theyd be replaced reality guarantees it. And if CEOs were really free to pay the lowest possible amount minimum wage would be the universal wage. Yet XX% of workers earn above it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1996977671754977551)  2025-12-05T16:19Z 10.1K followers, 2251 engagements


"More than half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck because politicians like you inflated the currency throttled productivity and made it harder to build wealth. Elon Musk becoming richer doesnt make anyone pooreryour policies do. And spare us the fake moral outrage. Democrats arent against subsidizing billionaires they just insist on choosing which billionaires get redistributed to. The financial elites aligned with your agenda get corporate welfare tax credits regulatory shields and guaranteed bailoutspaid for by the same struggling families you claim to care about. Abandon the zero-sum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997049779130413391)  2025-12-05T21:05Z 10.1K followers, 6225 engagements


"You could add 70000 workers and Social Security still wouldnt work. A system that requires endless new bodies just to postpone collapse isnt working its a Ponzi scheme propped up by paperwork. Only in government can insolvency be treated as success as long as we keep paying more people to shuffle forms. You dont fix structural deficit by hiring clerks you fix it by ending an entitlement that mathematically cannot sustain itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997093555240579331)  2025-12-05T23:59Z 10.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Communists reveal more than they intend when they redefine killing as not getting free stuff. If failing to provide someone housing income healthcare or food is violence then their worldview assumes: Your survival is someone elses responsibility Their labor belongs to you Refusing to work for others is aggression Thats a confession that life in their system isnt earned its owed. And once you claim not subsidizing someone equals violence you justify real violence: confiscation coercion force and eventually killing because its now framed as preventing death. They invert reality: People who dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997339288057303350)  2025-12-06T16:16Z 10.1K followers, 13.5K engagements


"If private health insurance has no reason to exist then why do people voluntarily buy it Insurance exists because risk exists. People prefer a predictable cost today over catastrophic cost tomorrow. Thats value. What makes insurance look parasitic isnt that it exists its that government destroyed alternatives: no transparent pricing mandated coverage banned cheaper plans restricted competition subsidized demand while shrinking supply Insurance didnt create that it reacts to it. If insurance truly added no value it would die on its own. The fact that statists want it banned proves it does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997358495713149247)  2025-12-06T17:32Z 10.1K followers, 2671 engagements


"Its hilarious watching people say we need to pirate again when the only reason you dont need to pirate is that access has never been easier or cheaper. You can stream more content than ever for a few bucks or literally for free if youre willing to watch ads. But somehow paying $X is oppression. Thats not rebellion. Thats entitlement dressed up as moral outrage. When you hate creators and companies simply for succeeding piracy stops being about access and turns into envy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997361320526549202)  2025-12-06T17:43Z 10.1K followers, 1485 engagements


"Heres the brutal truth that Reich will never admit: Everything on that list makes life less affordable because everything on that list increases the cost of production housing labor and capital. Point-by-point: Bust up monopolies Give regulators arbitrary power So the politically-favored firms win just like they always do. The government becomes the monopoly. Boost unions Make hiring costlier Which means fewer people hired slower growth higher unemployment and higher consumer prices. $20/hr federal minimum wage Price floor far above market value People whose productivity is below that rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997410760558067734)  2025-12-06T21:00Z 10.1K followers, 5809 engagements


"Socialism is a luxury belief. It only appears in societies after capitalism has made people rich enough to pretend redistribution doesnt hurt anyone. Welfare climate politics free programs guaranteed income none of these existed when people were poor because survival left no room for fantasy. Capitalism produces the surplus; socialism spends it while condemning the system that created it. It is the moral hobby of a society whose prosperity has lasted long enough for people to forget where it came from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997711689911824606)  2025-12-07T16:55Z 10.1K followers, 29.2K engagements


"A 32-hour work week with the same pay is just demanding more while doing less. Capitalism already turned 80-hour factory weeks into 40-hour office weeks by making more output from fewer hours. Productivity created rest. Socialism is the opposite demanding more without producing more and pretending reality owes you comfort. People dont need the state to remove effort they need freedom to create value and rise. Reality not legislation is the arbiter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997738819857129548)  2025-12-07T18:43Z 10.1K followers, 26.9K engagements


"Nationalising the economy doesnt put the working class in charge. It puts the political class in charge the only group that produces nothing yet gains the power to dictate everything. When the state owns the economy workers dont get ownership autonomy or control politicians do. And the moment the national interest becomes superior to individual rights the individual stops mattering entirely. Youre not empowering workers. Youre replacing voluntary exchange with political coercion and pretending its liberation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997742253897380158)  2025-12-07T18:57Z 10.1K followers, 3923 engagements


"A man from Vietnam where the ruling party cannot legally be criticized where journalists disappear where elections are theater lecturing Americans about conditional freedom is like someone in a desert complaining that Fiji water isnt cold enough. Heres the reality hes desperately evading: In Vietnam there is a criminal code for criticizing the state. Article XXX of their penal code: Making storing distributing or disseminating information documents and items against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Punishable by up to XX years. That is what conditional freedom actually looks like. Contrast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1997811342699385105)  2025-12-07T23:31Z 10.1K followers, 1785 engagements


"What Reich is doing here only works if nobody runs the math. Take his exact premise and calculate it honestly: Say a company has 500000 employees making $8/hr and they all get bumped to $15/hr. Thats a $7/hr increase. $7/hr 2080 full-time hours = $14560 more per employee 500000 workers = $XXXX BILLION per year Now compare that to the CEOs shocking $150M salary. If the CEO worked for free not $X literally $X youd still be short $XXX billion. Raising wages is not funded by cancelling an executive paycheck. It requires massive recurring revenue increases higher prices layoffs or business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998043591243919832)  2025-12-08T14:54Z 10.1K followers, 7662 engagements


"What Reich is doing here only works if nobody runs the math. Take his exact premise and calculate it honestly: Say a company has 500000 employees making $8/hr and they all get bumped to $15/hr. Thats a $7/hr increase. $7/hr 2080 full-time hours = $14560 more per employee 500000 workers = $XXXX BILLION per year Now compare that to the CEOs shocking $150M salary. If the CEO worked for free not $X literally $X youd still be short $XXX billion. Raising wages is not funded by cancelling an executive paycheck. It requires massive recurring revenue increases higher prices layoffs or business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998043605286404175)  2025-12-08T14:54Z 10.1K followers, 50.2K engagements


"Youre confusing hypocrisy with equivalence. When America acts authoritarian it betrays its own stated idealsindividual rights free speech voluntary association. Thats why people can call it out using Americas own laws and principles. When Vietnam acts authoritarian it isnt deviating from anythingit is simply practicing what its doctrine already demands: the individual is subordinate to the State speech is conditional dissent is illegitimate. One system fails when it violates rights. The other succeeds by violating them. That difference matters. Snowden Assange and protest crackdowns prove"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998088811113328817)  2025-12-08T17:54Z 10.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Billionaires cant track your calls texts emails or searches without your consent without a contract and without the ability to compel you. Government can. Government already does. The only reason a surveillance state is even possible isnt wealth. Its political power. Who builds the surveillance infrastructure Politicians. Who mandates data retention Politicians. Who forces companies to hand over private data Politicians. Who claims national security to bypass warrants Politicians. Bernie pretends that voluntary services are coercive and that state coercion is protective. If Ellison predicts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998123664756129803)  2025-12-08T20:12Z 10.1K followers, 2505 engagements


"Imagine running a basketball team on the same principle socialists apply to economics: Not who can score defend or lead But who needs the playing time the most. The worst shooter starts because he needs encouragement. The slowest defender stays on the court because it would be unfair to bench him. The MVP sits on the bench because he already has enough success. And when the team inevitably loses you blame greed for wanting to win instead of distributing minutes equally. Sacrifice ability to need in the name of equality and you dont uplift the weakyou sabotage the strong and collapse the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/RockChartrand/status/1998168049887629606)  2025-12-08T23:09Z 10.1K followers, XXX engagements