Abundant cheap energy creates optionality.
The political system determines whether that optionality becomes prosperity or decay.

Taxing income is one thing. Taxing energy is something else entirely. Income tax captures value after work has been done. Heavy taxation on energy reaches further upstream. It burdens the potential for work itself: the movement of goods, the heating of materials, the cooling of data, the running of machines, the transport of components, and the operation of entire industrial chains. In that sense, poorly designed energy taxation does not merely redistribute outcomes. It can suppress productive possibility before it has had the chance to fully form.

The Start of an unsatifying story (or Saga) about electric drones, beautiful engineering, and the business model problem that still haunts UAV evangelism today.

In 2011, somewhere between misplaced confidence and very favorable Latvian tax assumptions, I founded my first company. What began as a beverage venture between the Baltics and South Africa soon gave way to something far more revealing: an obsession with Spilve Airfield in Riga, and the machinery underneath ideas. Looking back, that abandoned airfield was less a failed project than the beginning of everything that came later.

Infographics, statistics memes are the name of the game. We get it. But what about sentiment and overall reading the room.
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