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Jun 06, 2025
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Nederland ligt midden in superregio, en moet zich ook zo presenteren | de  Volkskrant
A graphic representing the dreamed Tri-State City: North Western Europe is supposed to become Europe’s New York by the North Sea.

What mental models do our Western ruling elites use to make their decisions? It would be helpful to see past the facades of politics and understand their true motives. And I think the answer is: They measure the number of $ generated per square foot (or € per square meter), and they want that number to go up. That’s it!

Whether or not the breakup between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is real—or staged, one thing is certain: Donald Trump is with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden all the way, always has been. The Big Beautiful Spending bill, when passed, will increase government spending, namely, to the benefit of the billionaire class whose businesses will be the recipients of those taxpayers’ dollars. Just like it was under Biden and Obama. Nothing has changed.

The American elite behave no differently from African elites that tax their populations dry and run off with the State coffers. Old Europe, now infected with capitalist Americanism, wasn’t always like this. We used to have an aristocracy that cared very much about the meaning of life. This meaning has now been reduced to a measure of how much we can monetize each square foot of land.

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