“Long Live Liberty, Damn it!”

If America wants to continue down the road of prosperity and scientific advancement, we, the people, need to uphold and promote more freedom, not less.

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Two individuals I greatly admire and find fascinating are Elon Musk, the pioneering entrepreneur, and Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei. Their work and influence have left a lasting impression on me.

My fascination with Musk originated from my fascination with space and space explorations. I always wished that I was one of the 650 million people around the world who were glued in front of televisions watching the Apollo 11 moon landing. It happened before I was born, and even if I were born then, I would have missed it anywhere because China was knee-deep in a socialist revolution, and science was one of the many victims the revolution claimed. Even after I was born, my family didn’t have a TV until the late 1980s. Needless to say, from cultural and science standpoints, I had missed a lot.

I started paying attention to Musk’s business adventures about ten years ago, especially what he’s been doing with SpaceX. I didn’t like everything Musk had done. I wanted to vomit after hearing his cringe-worthy praise for the Chinese Communist Party. Still, I have always felt an affinity to a fellow immigrant like him, who came to this country and built something from zero to greatness. SpaceX’s success inspired me so much that when I was asked to give a presentation on why Capitalism works in 2013, as part of the competition for the “Defender of Capitalism (DoC)” award of the Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR), I used Musk’s success with Space X as an example.

Here was what I said,