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Marko Jukic
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Finding the golden path to interstellar civilization. Senior Analyst @bismarckanlys.
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Feb 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The West has two kinds of elites. Those who earn their money from suspiciously skyrocketing asset prices. And those who earn it from fraudulent nonprofits with government contracts. The former wants to audit the government. The latter wants a tax on unrealized capital gains. As a Western elite, these are basically your two options to actually cash in on your hard-earned status. In practice you either end up owning enough infinitely-growing tech stocks to never have to work again, or you end up with a suspiciously highly-salaried fake nonprofit job.
Feb 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A bad AI future nobody is currently modeling is we approximate AGI but never create it, resulting in largely automated economies with huge unemployment, redistribution, and demographic decline, but fail to maintain themselves without human expertise and collapse by 2100 or so. Any automated AI economy outcome that falls even one-tenth of a percentage point short of true AGI will require large amounts of human expertise and labor to maintain itself. But the closer it gets, the more it incentivizes the human race to give up even harder on living.
Jan 28 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The purpose of dysfunctional migrants in every country is to create problems that justify bureaucratic budgets for upper-class college-educated white people to give themselves no-show e-mail jobs safe from market forces. Also those migrants vote for continuing the system. The way to solve this problem would be to give upper-class college-educated white people no-show e-mail jobs safe from market forces by fiat. But there are too many people who want such jobs now. So the actual solution is to aggressively remove the status of no-show e-mail jobs.
Jan 28 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
It seems like this is the actual plan of all governments in the developed world. No need to ask hard questions or commit to major reforms when you can just spam Indians until GDP is up 500% just from population growth and establishment parties get 99% of the vote.

Fall of Rome. There really seems to be no solving this without completely breaking out of the modern social-democratic post-industrial paradigm of governance. The fundamental driver of mass immigration is the same as that of money-printing and deindustrialization... civilizational laziness.
Jan 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The bear case for AI is that bringing 10x or 100x or 1000x more intelligence to America will not change anything because U.S. institutions are already designed to ignore or waste intelligence and have no idea what to do with any more of it. Unemployed AIs making video essays. AI is not going to bring us post-scarcity, because we have had post-scarcity for a century. A world where nobody has to work is going to be a world where everyone can and will devote 100% of their time and energy to politics. It won't be peaceful.
Jan 4 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Europe is great because you can never find clear information about laws because we peasants are not intended to know them, and even if you do they are written in unclear, useless legalese, because the real law is just "whatever we don't like is illegal," which is "everything." U.S. laws and regulations at least attempt to set clear, simple, and fair guidelines and punishments, but European laws are all deliberately written to be like "the fine can be between zero to one trillion euros" and "breathing in an unsanctioned manner can be an infraction."
Dec 30, 2025 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Acquiring wealth may seem like a rational pursuit in the face of a system apparently too hopelessly broken to fix. But this is a catastrophic error because even if wealth is not confiscated or devalued, the things it could buy now or before will just disappear, at any price. Eventually even the richest man in South Africa or Brazil or whichever parallel you may use will want nothing but for his grandchildren to be able to get a job designing space rockets, and this will be impossible, because there will be no space program and no money to build it.
Dec 28, 2025 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
They aren't our rulers. Our rulers are career bureaucrats, journalists, nonprofit executives, activist jurists, university administrators, and progressive billionaire philanthropists. They are numerous, stay out of the spotlight, and don't bother commentating because it's weak. To actually compete in any meaningful way with this vast organization of political coordination requires graduating from the diminishing returns of inflaming the emotions of the masses to organizing professional cadres financed by long-term-oriented philanthropy.
Dec 21, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A great form of non-progressive philanthropy would be to fund extra-academic schools of history taught by proven outsiders, of which there are many online with followings large and small, since universities are planning to just take history itself and throw it in the trash. If the collectively giga-wealthy opponents of infinite woke cannot figure out how to fund a few independent schools of history to literally save the accurate collective memory of a world-spanning civilization that gives them identity and purpose...
Dec 15, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Outside of occasionally winning scheduled elections, it turns out that unleashing freedom of speech and allowing the masses to vent their frustrations with bad governance at maximal intensity has no discernible effect on governance quality, and may even worsen it due to spite. There is not enough analysis or even awareness of the feedback loops that inform the month-to-month decision-making by the Western governing classes in bureaucracies. They clearly seem to close ranks and deliberately intensify unpopular policies in response to populist pressure.
Dec 11, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Frenzied, desperate Boomers passing laws to ban young people from free speech, home ownership, or stable employment, while also berating them uhh this is just like WWII, so we are reintroducing military conscription too.

Dropping out, lying flat, giving up—are rational choices. We are just looking at the process of total institutional breakdown. Dysfunctional institutions keep escalating demands on your time and money; rationally disincentivizing competence or participation; fewer resources available; more escalating demands; rinse and repeat.
Dec 8, 2025 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
It's hard to over-emphasize how utterly unprepared educated progressive Europeans are for even the mildest open debate that challenges their positions. They are basically dodos living in a completely closed intellectual hugbox represented by publicly-funded state TV. These people have literally never, not once in their lives, encountered genuine intellectual opposition to any of their views, even second-hand. Every instance of "debate" in their lives, from university to TV, is just a carefully coordinated ritual with a predetermined outcome.
Nov 21, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
These sanctions were applied by OFAC, which is just part of the Executive Branch. I wonder if the Trump administration will enforce similar sanctions against officials in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and other U.S. allies violently suppressing the free speech of their citizens. Every day I am surprised anew with just how much power the U.S. can and does exert over Europe! Now I find out the U.S. government can just debank and cancel any random person in Europe it wants!
Nov 9, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
You have to admit that the way Boomer elites constantly counter every Millennial demand for benefits with an even bigger offer for loans (indebting them to Boomers), while loudly framing it as a favor the whole time, is just plain hilarious in this dark, Dostoyevskyan way. There is this whole subtext of Boomers refusing to just pass down assets to their children or grandchildren but instead like malfunctioning robots constantly try to invent elaborate schemes where they have to work for them or go into debt to them to get their own inheritance.
Nov 6, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A massive, gaping intellectual blind spot I have noticed is social-class politics and hostility *within* the Western world and Western populations. For example, it's obvious Western elites see the Western masses as a subhuman race, but I rarely see anyone dig deeper into this. We just totally lack good sociology on class relations in Western populations. Even bringing up "class" sounds dated and Marxist, occasionally someone points out how complicated and extreme the British class system can be... but it pretty much stops there.
Oct 29, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In 2025 your political options are either the group that wants to crush the human race into a fine powder for kind of unclear shifting moral reasons, or the opposition that wants to crush the human race into a fine powder because we don't follow market incentives closely enough. The establishment view is that humanity is so evil and corrupt it needs to be crushed for reasons so obvious they do not even need to be explained, while the opposition view is that we must reluctantly crush humanity because hypothetical machines would be better workers.
Oct 29, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The crisis of the last 500 years is basically a crisis of humanism. Wherever we can we keep denigrating, delegitimizing, constraining, and even destroying open and personalized human action, thought, and decision-making, in favor of opaque, manipulated, broken processes. There is a straight line between the petty committees that stifle creativity and growth in ordinary professional and private life, and the expansive cosmological visions held by social and cultural elites that deny or delegitimize not just human agency but the human race itself.
Oct 29, 2025 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
When my grandkids ask me why we didn't do anything to prevent the ignominious collapse of modern civilization, I guess I will have to say that everyone knew exactly what was wrong, we had just already created a society where doing anything but raging online was impossible. We have created a cage so perfect that the brightest minds of our era think it is easier to create artificial superhuman minds with silicon and software than reform governments and institutions, which when you take a step back is obviously a totally insane position to hold.
Oct 23, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There are enough Indians for India to export 700 million people total to North America and Europe over the coming decades, become around 50% of the population on both continents, and still remain the world's most populous country with over 1 billion people. Image This isn't even counting Pakistan and Bangladesh. Or the Philippines, Indonesia... the calculus for Western elites is very simple. The harder pension schemes, real estate markets, and GDP break down, the more immigrants we will import.
Oct 21, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Objectively I am mega-bearish on America, Europe, and China equally. I currently do not see any of them reversing the demographic and thus permanent decline of techno-industrial civilization, which will likely play out by 2100. All other discussion is just details until then. So far every single disagreement with this post relies on multiple speculative science-fiction outcomes to pan out. While I'm not ruling it out entirely, if you can't see that this should not be taken as the default outcome, I don't know what to tell you.
Oct 7, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I hope everyone under the age of 40 realizes that they are never going to see a single cent of the pensions they pay 10-20% of their income for in taxes. Yes, you are very clever, applying cold hard facts and logic to turns of phrase. How about for $100k? At what number do you get uncomfortable and how far away is it from the lifetime number we expect a person to collect? Cards on the table buddy!