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Mistral raises €3B

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Re: Mistral raises €3B

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> Existing investors a16z I don't trust anything the antichrist invests in

This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly.

Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough power to subjugate the will of the people. Monopolies, billionaires, the accumulation of such power is making the average citizen powerless. And you can feel it.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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> Existing investors a16z I don't trust anything the antichrist invests in

Is that who Thiel is talking about? I thought it was just a bible thing.

If you follow the ideology of the Silicon Valley billionaire types, based around Ayn Rand (eg “Atlas Shrugged”) and Curtis Yarvin, as well as what Thiel himself has said over the years, the Antichrist is governmental institutions, seen as the inhibitors of progress. I am not joking btw.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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> Existing investors a16z I don't trust anything the antichrist invests in

This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly. Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough power to subjugate the will of the people. Monopolies, billionaires, the accumulation of such power is making the average citizen powerless. And you can feel it.

The power is in the hands of a few people obsessed or possessed. Gambling addiction, narcissism, power hunger.

Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses so the question is whether we figure out a way to level the power.

This is not evil, but a trait of human nature of corruption or addiction to power.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that who Thiel is talking about? I thought it was just a bible thing.

If you follow the ideology of the Silicon Valley billionaire types, based around Ayn Rand (eg “Atlas Shrugged”) and Curtis Yarvin, as well as what Thiel himself has said over the years, the Antichrist is governmental institutions, seen as the inhibitors of progress. I am not joking btw.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_fo...

Here's a nice summary. Haven't read the book yet though it's on my list.

Re: Mistral raises €3B

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly. Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough power to subjugate the will of the people. Monopolies, billionaires, the accumulation of such power is making the average citizen powerless. And you can feel it.

The power is in the hands of a few people obsessed or possessed. Gambling addiction, narcissism, power hunger. Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses so the question is whether we figure out a way to level the power. This is not evil, but a trait of human nature of corruption or addiction to power.

Yeah it’s ’more more more’. Seems a very nature based behaviour. We need a restraint or predator to slow us off!
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