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If you subscribe to the pre-modern idea that there is a limited overall amount of wealth, right. But if you fast forward to the modern age, you’ll find that almost all work creates new wealth.
Even if building your wealth didn't take it from somebody else, it still hadn't improved society.
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I consider it evil to manufacture a false statement to slander someone you disagree with. He never said women shouldn't vote. What he actually said: The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libert…
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... It is rather obvious that he thinks women shouldn't vote given he blames them, in part, for the decline of "capitalist democracy". I could have also mentioned his work to make sure the general public has much less privacy while fighting with lots of money to make sure his privacy is respected. I have little use for those who wish to have separate rules f…
He didn't say what you claimed, why not just edit your post and retract it. By not doing backing down it makes it look like you knew it was untrue, but just wanted to take the cheap shot.
Fun fact, Peter Thiel gave Vitalik Buterin a Thiel Fellowship to work on Ethereum. Let's count the wins Peter Thiel has had: - Paypal - Facebook - Palantir - Etherum - Took on deplorable Gawker
After his political underdog bets 6-8 years ago got him into the white house briefly, I bet he feels emboldened to double down on this strategy. He took those bets with asymmetric returns at the risk of complete social ostracizing in the Bay Area tech community, only to come out on top and retaining his access and control everywhere including at Facebook, all the way till now! Thats pretty impressive, regardless of t…
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I would consider it evil to say that women shouldn't vote.
From what I know, he doesn't think anyone should vote... because he understands that democracy is a tool used by the establishment to give people the illusion of freedom. This view is not unique to him. He shares it with several other libertarians, historical and contemporary.
How about you cite a source instead of jumping on the false accusation bandwagon.
Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
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LOL, i would pay money to watch this in real time. another suggestive Thiel anecdote: after PayPal IPO'd the team threw a party to celebrate and he was said to have run a 10 game simultaneous (Thiel would play ten different games, moving through each board one move at a time, down the line) and was only beat by one person (David Sacks). after losing, he flipped the board and apparently responded to being called a sor…
Sacks telling (a version of?) this story: https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1248028580245692417
That's an interesting take. I've experienced both sides of it multiple times: failing over several years with the same strategy, and giving up too soon on ideas/products that were starting to gain traction, slowly--that later became clear market needs.
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https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio... It is rather obvious that he thinks women shouldn't vote given he blames them, in part, for the decline of "capitalist democracy". I could have also mentioned his work to make sure the general public has much less privacy while fighting with lots of money to make sure his privacy is respected. I have little use for those who wish to have separate rules f…
It isn't at all obvious you know what Thiel thinks, but it is obvious you don't like him. You can't go around making up quotes based on what you imagine people you don't like think. He didn't say what you claimed, why not just edit your post and retract it. By not doing backing down it makes it look like you knew it was untrue, but just wanted to take the cheap shot.
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i suspect a number of narcissistic christians secretly wonder if they're actually the second coming. it wouldn't surprise me if thiel were in that group.
Now I'm curious: do the scriptures say when Jesus became self-aware, that he was (the son of) God?
he told people to worship him pretty much right away.