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Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Post by pan69 »

arjie wrote: post #16

Interesting. I could speculate as to why, but has he said anything besides the anti-christ thing? That thing wasn't illuminative in any way. So is it: * fear of new wealth taxes in the US styled in the California way * fear of being shot like UHC CEO * legal retaliation from a new adminstration Perhaps a little of each but what weighting? And what else? Personally, I'm definitely working to ensure my wife and childre…

> so that we have escape hatches

From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

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Post by arjie »

pan69 wrote: post #21
arjie wrote: post #16

Interesting. I could speculate as to why, but has he said anything besides the anti-christ thing? That thing wasn't illuminative in any way. So is it: * fear of new wealth taxes in the US styled in the California way * fear of being shot like UHC CEO * legal retaliation from a new adminstration Perhaps a little of each but what weighting? And what else? Personally, I'm definitely working to ensure my wife and childre…

> so that we have escape hatches From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

My wife is Taiwanese and I'm Indian. I'm certainly not stupid enough to read the average HN/Reddit thread on Indians and believe that things cannot rapidly change around me.

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Post by copx »

Moving to Argentina to avoid political instability is like moving to Nigeria to avoid black people.

Argentina is way more politically unstable than the US and has a long socialist history.

If I were an arch-capitalist techno overlord, I would move to Singapore.

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Post by cr125rider »

arjie wrote: post #16

Interesting. I could speculate as to why, but has he said anything besides the anti-christ thing? That thing wasn't illuminative in any way. So is it: * fear of new wealth taxes in the US styled in the California way * fear of being shot like UHC CEO * legal retaliation from a new adminstration Perhaps a little of each but what weighting? And what else? Personally, I'm definitely working to ensure my wife and childre…

Yeah Taiwan isn’t under any sort of threat these days, good thinking /s

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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rbanffy wrote: post #19

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