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When I grew up in the Rhein-Main area, our family used to live on the eggs provided by my grandfather through his homestead farming operation.
After his loss - here and there - for many years one had to rely on store- or market bought eggs.
Following the lockdown years we finally picked up on that lose thread - a son was born bearing his name and a farmstead operation launched which provides the family - farm-to-table - with free range eggs from our own land.
Keeping traditions and heritage alive is a duty for all of us to honour our forefathers.
If you’ve got a son, the best gift you can give him is a brother.
If you have the opportunity, don't deprive him of that shared childhood & bond for life.
#makemorebabies
Unfortunate truth about the mass market in Germany - people very much like to complain about quality.
They do not like to pay for quality.
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"...was largely suffering because it had misread the market in Germany 🇩🇪 .
We misjudged how customers would respond to price increases. After cocoa prices reached historic highs from 2024 onwards, we wanted to pass on those additional costs. In doing so, we overestimated how much we could raise prices without hurting demand," he said."
🇻🇳 eyeing further restrictions on the domestic property market.
Compare the stated goals with those pursued in the upside-down world of many Western countries, where rising housing prices are celebrated by taxpayer-funded "economists", "experts" and politicians as a “sign of a strong economy” (???), and the contrast is especially stark.
Making housing accessible & affordable for broad sections of society is a real KPI of good governance and a system that works for the people.
If people can’t afford a home, many downstream societal ills do follow… from people putting off starting families to an overall “lack of stake” in the present & future well-being of society at large.
…because if the current system won’t even enable me to own shelter, why should I defend and uphold it?
Why wouldn’t I opt out of maintaining it - or move to "tear it all down"?
A functioning society will enable housing to become more affordable relative to incomes over time.
And its policies must be designed accordingly.
A sovereign nation must serve the interests of the people who live in it first and foremost.
"I want THAT car!"
The immediate reaction of a young & innocent pre-school boy - his mind unpolluted by mass media & education system by what he is supposed to like or dislike to signal his belief systems.
Data point.
Fuer Freunde des gepflegten Gebabbels in Frankfurt / Rhein-Main
Next Bitcoin Meetup 🍻
📍 Wo: Kuli Alma, Zum Jungen Straße 10, #Frankfurt
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🇻🇳 entering global Top 10 in high speed data connectivity.
The improvement in terms of power production (a decade ago even in big cities you had ~a day a month with rolling brown-outs), infrastructure and general standards of living has been absolutely remarkable to witness - a blessed time to live through.
Not so bold prediction:
It will move up further ranks ahead of 2030.
And in terms of asymmetric bets:
If somebody had told you in 1996 that this is what the global top 10 ranking in such essential infrastructure for economic productivity would look like 30 years on - would you have taken that bet?
Which of these countries would/could you reasonably have predicted to be among the leading pack three decades later? South Korea 🇰🇷, maybe - but the rest?
💯 @plamen_andonov
Terminal stage - there's no "turning the ship around".
Abandon the sinking ship as long as you still are able to do so - and focus your resources & efforts on building a new one.
And guard tightly who you take on this journey with you.
You must be ruthless in cutting out actors who are looking to hijack and misdirect your energy for their own ulterior purposes.
Wasting your limited resources for their goals.
Refuse their framing; force your own -don't become a useful tool and stick to your own agenda.
If you don't operate by your own metrics and goals - you'll serve sb else's.
Every time Berlin is given political power over the German states, they can't help themselves but launch a World War.
The Prussian disease.
The time to decentralize is upon us!
Decentralization is the only political structure that actually disciplines government, and Switzerland's canton system proves it with 700 years of evidence.
Twenty-six cantons compete for residents and businesses. Appenzell Innerrhoden runs differently from Zurich, which runs differently from Geneva. When Basel raises taxes past the tolerance of its engineers and entrepreneurs, those people move to Zug, which has kept its corporate tax rate under 12%. Basel loses the revenue. The lesson writes itself.
Centralization is the villain. Every time a federal authority absorbs a decision that cantons once made, you lose the price signal. You lose the experiment. You lose the exit option. Brussels crushes this mechanism across the EU, which is why French farmers and German industrialists both scream at the same unresponsive bureaucracy with nowhere to go.
Competition between governments constrains Leviathan the way competition between businesses constrains monopoly pricing. Strip away that competition and governments do exactly what monopolists always do: extract maximum value from captive subjects while delivering minimum service.
The canton system works because it keeps power close to the people funding it and gives those people somewhere else to go.
Take power and responsibility out of the hands of bureaucrats thousands of kilometers away. Localize it to within manageable sections, and watch your area flourish.
Any city aspiring to be a financial centre & business hub needs to step up its game if airport security still makes you unpack your electronics.
It's 2026. The technology exists.
There's no good reason to keep this major pain point in air travel around.
