[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@mikewinddale](/creator/twitter/mikewinddale) "@BakedGoodsYYC @mcsquared34 To say that capitalism requires growth is EXACTLY like saying that the abolition of slavery requires growth. If the end of growth requires the end of capitalism then why doesn't the end of growth require the reinstitution of slavery"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949145075927089359) 2025-07-26 16:29:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@GuntherEagleman Wow so you want to send President Trump to prison I agree with that and I'm glad you do too"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949128921338765434) 2025-07-26 15:25:22 UTC XXX followers, X engagements "@SpiritKing11 @Zenboor @mcsquared34 The opportunity cost of equity capital is also an implicit cost. A company pays shareholders for their investment for the same reason they pay interest for a bank loan. So just as interest is a cost so too the *average* money paid to investors is actually a cost not profit"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949249808633414030) 2025-07-26 23:25:44 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@SpiritKing11 @Zenboor @mcsquared34 No you failed to understand. I'm trying to help you. Go learn about economic profit and the opportunity cost of equity capital in any decent ecomomics textbook. It's right there. ChatGPT summarized it nicely. Here's an excerpt:"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949497761680015864) 2025-07-27 15:51:00 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@mcsquared34 No it isn't. Only opponents of capitalism claim that capitalism requires infinite growth. No advocates of capitalism claim this"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949127969634496583) 2025-07-26 15:21:35 UTC XXX followers, 5260 engagements "Thank you President Trump for helping make South Park great again"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949127765254431063) 2025-07-26 15:20:46 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@mcsquared34 Only XXX% of all hourly workers earn the minimum wage (81k min wage out of 80.5m hourly workers). Those 80.5m hourly workers are XXXX% of all workers. So out of all workers (hourly & not) only XXXXX% earn the min wage. 81e3/(80.5e6/0.557)*100"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1948468458364006676) 2025-07-24 19:40:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@GuntherEagleman So the president raises the prices of all goods by a certain amount then gives us a refund for *less* than that amount. If winning is that bad I can't imagine how bad losing is"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1948827775571558440) 2025-07-25 19:28:43 UTC XXX followers, X engagements "@Zenboor @SpiritKing11 @mcsquared34 Yes in the real world there is. For example the most recent data I can find say that Toyota's return on equity is XXXXX% while Ford's is 13.1%. The average is 10-15. This suggests Toyota and Ford are both making roughly zero profit"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949206387113824590) 2025-07-26 20:33:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "President Trump is supposed to be the great dealmaker. But he got only $XX million from Paramount while Trey Parker & Matt Stone of South Park got $XXX billion. Pathetic Trump ought to be ashamed at his terrible deal. POTUS should admit that South Park is a better negotiator"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1948585639815119142) 2025-07-25 03:26:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@MistraleroX @mcsquared34 Debt does not require growth. Inflation is not part of capitalism"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949185867068879335) 2025-07-26 19:11:39 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@MistraleroX @mcsquared34 No it doesn't. Suppose I borrow $5000 using my credit card to buy a new oven. Over the next few months I pay off the debt using my wage income. At no point do I get a pay raise. But I successfully pay off the debt. Why do you say this requires growth when it doesn't"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949204053923086674) 2025-07-26 20:23:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@GuntherEagleman MAGA: "I love our socialist pedophile president because he told me he loves me.""  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949174249492475914) 2025-07-26 18:25:29 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@SpiritKing11 @Zenboor @mcsquared34 Well the terms in which you are thinking are not economical"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949250056516948088) 2025-07-26 23:26:43 UTC XXX followers, X engagements "@Mariano2606 @NEElimit @BakedGoodsYYC @mcsquared34 Any business who makes the average rate of return is making X% profit. Many businesses make the same return as their competitors. Ergo X% profit"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949141153065898229) 2025-07-26 16:13:58 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@kingofthecoastt A public option playing on a level playing field would be a public option that receives zero tax-funded subsidy. Is that really a public option 1/2"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1948125414372807111) 2025-07-23 20:57:47 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@GuntherEagleman Do you support sending President Trump to prison when we confirm he is one of Epstein's pedophile pals"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949128296207110597) 2025-07-26 15:22:53 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@jackunheard Looks like no it was Republicans who blocked it"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1948470442454405511) 2025-07-24 19:48:48 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@BakedGoodsYYC @mcsquared34 The argument seems to be "Without infinite growth we cannot have individual freedom and individual rights (i.e. capitalism). If growth ceases we must abolish human rights." I don't see why that is true"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1949144607662465092) 2025-07-26 16:27:42 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@kingofthecoastt But if the govt wants to open a grocery store or insurance co that receives no subsidies or funding from anyone but its voluntary customers and which has no legal advantages over private firms then sure let the govt do that. Free-marketers wouldn't object. 2/2"  [@mikewinddale](/creator/x/mikewinddale) on [X](/post/tweet/1948125697672618445) 2025-07-23 20:58:55 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
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"@BakedGoodsYYC @mcsquared34 To say that capitalism requires growth is EXACTLY like saying that the abolition of slavery requires growth. If the end of growth requires the end of capitalism then why doesn't the end of growth require the reinstitution of slavery"
@mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 16:29:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@GuntherEagleman Wow so you want to send President Trump to prison I agree with that and I'm glad you do too" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 15:25:22 UTC XXX followers, X engagements
"@SpiritKing11 @Zenboor @mcsquared34 The opportunity cost of equity capital is also an implicit cost. A company pays shareholders for their investment for the same reason they pay interest for a bank loan. So just as interest is a cost so too the average money paid to investors is actually a cost not profit" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 23:25:44 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@SpiritKing11 @Zenboor @mcsquared34 No you failed to understand. I'm trying to help you. Go learn about economic profit and the opportunity cost of equity capital in any decent ecomomics textbook. It's right there. ChatGPT summarized it nicely. Here's an excerpt:" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-27 15:51:00 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@mcsquared34 No it isn't. Only opponents of capitalism claim that capitalism requires infinite growth. No advocates of capitalism claim this" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 15:21:35 UTC XXX followers, 5260 engagements
"Thank you President Trump for helping make South Park great again" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 15:20:46 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@mcsquared34 Only XXX% of all hourly workers earn the minimum wage (81k min wage out of 80.5m hourly workers). Those 80.5m hourly workers are XXXX% of all workers. So out of all workers (hourly & not) only XXXXX% earn the min wage. 81e3/(80.5e6/0.557)*100" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-24 19:40:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@GuntherEagleman So the president raises the prices of all goods by a certain amount then gives us a refund for less than that amount. If winning is that bad I can't imagine how bad losing is" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-25 19:28:43 UTC XXX followers, X engagements
"@Zenboor @SpiritKing11 @mcsquared34 Yes in the real world there is. For example the most recent data I can find say that Toyota's return on equity is XXXXX% while Ford's is 13.1%. The average is 10-15. This suggests Toyota and Ford are both making roughly zero profit" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 20:33:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"President Trump is supposed to be the great dealmaker. But he got only $XX million from Paramount while Trey Parker & Matt Stone of South Park got $XXX billion. Pathetic Trump ought to be ashamed at his terrible deal. POTUS should admit that South Park is a better negotiator" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-25 03:26:34 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@MistraleroX @mcsquared34 Debt does not require growth. Inflation is not part of capitalism" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 19:11:39 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@MistraleroX @mcsquared34 No it doesn't. Suppose I borrow $5000 using my credit card to buy a new oven. Over the next few months I pay off the debt using my wage income. At no point do I get a pay raise. But I successfully pay off the debt. Why do you say this requires growth when it doesn't" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 20:23:55 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@GuntherEagleman MAGA: "I love our socialist pedophile president because he told me he loves me."" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 18:25:29 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@SpiritKing11 @Zenboor @mcsquared34 Well the terms in which you are thinking are not economical" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 23:26:43 UTC XXX followers, X engagements
"@Mariano2606 @NEElimit @BakedGoodsYYC @mcsquared34 Any business who makes the average rate of return is making X% profit. Many businesses make the same return as their competitors. Ergo X% profit" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 16:13:58 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@kingofthecoastt A public option playing on a level playing field would be a public option that receives zero tax-funded subsidy. Is that really a public option 1/2" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-23 20:57:47 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@GuntherEagleman Do you support sending President Trump to prison when we confirm he is one of Epstein's pedophile pals" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 15:22:53 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@jackunheard Looks like no it was Republicans who blocked it" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-24 19:48:48 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@BakedGoodsYYC @mcsquared34 The argument seems to be "Without infinite growth we cannot have individual freedom and individual rights (i.e. capitalism). If growth ceases we must abolish human rights." I don't see why that is true" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-26 16:27:42 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@kingofthecoastt But if the govt wants to open a grocery store or insurance co that receives no subsidies or funding from anyone but its voluntary customers and which has no legal advantages over private firms then sure let the govt do that. Free-marketers wouldn't object. 2/2" @mikewinddale on X 2025-07-23 20:58:55 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements