Medieval town planning: one wall, one square, zero sprawl. Still sitting inside its stone ring 800 years later.
Dante put it in the Inferno.
Italy is full of these beautiful towns. This one is Monteriggioni, Tuscany. 
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Building stuff by day. Explaining math to socialists by night. Only one pays.
The government prints money, my costs jump 20%, I raise prices 8% and the news calls people like me greedy.
The guy with the money printer never makes the evening news. Only the guy with the price tag. 🤷♂️
Tax the rich until they leave, then act shocked the treasury is empty. Turns out you can't tax a yacht that sailed to Dubai.
The left sees billions in spare cash and asks where to spend it. Normal people ask why it was taken from them in the first place.
A leftist wants to abolish private property. Ask to borrow his car and he turns libertarian in about three seconds 😂
Hasan Piker says America has "no freedom."
He said it on a live stream to millions, from his $2.74M house, with no one coming to arrest him.
In the countries he admires, that stream would've been his last.
Burano, Venice. Fishermen painted their houses bright so they could find home through the fog.
Centuries later, the fog is gone but the colors stayed. 
A socialist torches a Starbucks to fight capitalism. Next morning the barista he was liberating is out of a job. Revolution complete.
Californians flee to Texas to escape high taxes, crime and $9 gas.
First thing they do when they land: vote for the same people who caused it.
It's like escaping a burning house and bringing the matches as a housewarming gift.
Governments make small companies fill out mandatory statistics forms. Skip one, get fined.
So somewhere a big economic chart is just a founder at midnight, guessing.
The Soviets ran a whole economy on numbers like that.
Italy builds 61% of the world's new superyachts.
America tried a luxury tax on yachts in 1990. The rich bought their boats elsewhere, and the guys who lost their jobs were the ones building them.
Tax the rich, they said. Funny. 
Run companies in three countries and some country is always on holiday. US bank closed for Thanksgiving. Polish office closed for All Saints. Accountant on a long weekend. Socialists say owners don't work. Funny.
Half my business accounts send login codes to a phone number from two countries ago. To change the number, they send a code. To that number. Hackers can't get into my accounts. Neither can I 💀
Tax unrealized gains and the founder owes millions on a startup that's worth zero by spring. Big brains call it fairness. The bankruptcy court calls it Tuesday.
Tax deadline is Friday. Friday morning the tax portal is "down for scheduled maintenance." If my site went down on payday, I'd lose customers.
Theirs goes down and I pay the late fee. Great business model. No competitors, no refunds, no apologies.
Company fires 300 people because AI can do their jobs. Six months later it hires 300 "AI supervisors" to fix what the AI did. Same desks, new title, lower pay.
Flávio Bolsonaro is in the United States. 🇧🇷🇺🇸
A Dutch MP asks why Anthropic won't list in Amsterdam so the state can tax and regulate it. That's the answer, sir. Founders go where they're welcomed, not where they're harvested 😂
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Government doubles the cigarette tax so people will quit. People quit. Now the budget has a hole and the same geniuses are holding hearings on where the money went.
Ukraine could have been rich. Instead corruption ate the nation alive for decades, leaving poverty and an open door for the Kremlin.
Nobody deserves an invasion, and Ukraine is the victim here.
Still, a lesson for every country: corruption destroys dreams.