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Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. this should be disqualifying for life in the public sphere and somehow it is not.

It's always projection with those people.

Yes, it is very much projection.

It is also (and it surprises me that this ancient observation is so little cited), a highly visible example of

"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely".

Watching at these people accumulate and hoard hundreds of billions of wealth, in a capitalist society where wealth equals power, and become ever more corrupt as they do so, simply demonstrates the point yet again. And we must suffer the consequences as they choose to corrupt the govt so they can accumulate more power instead of doing works to benefit all.

Just for some perspective, I once calculated what it means to be rich. I called it at spending at a constant average of USD$2500/day. With 'only' $20million yielding 5%, you have $2700/day without even touching principle. There is no level of basic and even luxury needs that cannot be met with that kind of spending. OK, you want more, how about spending $25,000 per day, EVERY day for the rest of your life? That takes 'only' $200 million.

Those people have hundreds of times the amount of money that could ever make a difference in their standard of living.

The point is that once you reach past these levels, more money literally makes no material difference in your standard of living. Hoarding more money is only about one thing, power.

As a society, we need to be doing something different.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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** maybe edit of un-shame: ... is it? * edit of shame: it's satire. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. > there is a certain sense in which Mark Zuckerberg has been cast as 'the spokesman' for the Millennial generation — as the single person who gives voice to the hopes and fears and the unique experiences of this generation, at least in the USA That is an absolutely bananas read of Zuck's place in American cultur…

I’ll say this: When you can’t distinguish reality from satire any more, you know we’re royally screwed.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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No offence but Venezuela is a political meme and one of the most corrupt country out there lol, given your natural resources you should be doing way better regardless of where the government leans. Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s

Give me a definition of socialism that only includes the good things done in Western Europe and excludes all of the bad things that happened in Soviet Union, China, Venezuela etc.

Give me a definition of capitalism that only include the good things...

Almost as if it was a spectrum, almost as if it was a balancing act between two opposites

Almost as if we should not think in term of black and white definitions of ideological systems that cannot be 100% implemented

It really makes you think doesn't it ?

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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Yes, this site usually publishes emails released into the public record via court cases. This exchange is cited as: [This document is from Tennessee v. Meta (2024).]

And where is that document? I can claim this document is from wherever if there is no way to find that document. Sorry this just reads way too much like fiction and if I have two hypotheses about its origin: 1. Real court document that I can’t find the source for and have to trust a random substack is telling me is real. 2. AI generated conversation for views. I’m inclined to the second these days. But if it’s real:…

https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2024/1/10/pr23-03.ht...

https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/...

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

#116

This article flame bait. No point in keeping it up.

Satire, by definition, is flamebait. That this particular of satire is nigh on indistinguishable from reality/so believable indicates how good a satire it is.

It's not satire.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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post #97

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No offence but Venezuela is a political meme and one of the most corrupt country out there lol, given your natural resources you should be doing way better regardless of where the government leans. Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s

> Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s Just ask Poland!

I forgot to mention that 280 iq individuals who think socialism = communism = USSR = gulags can refrain from commenting

No wonder we can't have any serious discussions on these topics...

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

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What the fuck is the "public sphere" and who decides who does or does not get a membership card? Like, call Thiel an idiot with stupid ideas that are dumb, fine, but trying to cancel someone from the "public sphere" just reeks of passive aggression.

I'd read this as "no-one should take the insane person seriously".

Well then just say that.

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

#119
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Reminder to millennials: Socialism in real life = Biggest Government, Biggest Tech monopoly, forced uniformity, no self-agency, no authenticity for anyone who slightly disagrees with any aspect of the agenda, etc. Source: I fled Venezuela because I lived in it.

No offence but Venezuela is a political meme and one of the most corrupt country out there lol, given your natural resources you should be doing way better regardless of where the government leans. Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s

Pain and suffering, families thorn apart and blood of thousands of people are a meme to you? Fuck you, pull your head out of your ass

Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)

#120
post #97

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No offence but Venezuela is a political meme and one of the most corrupt country out there lol, given your natural resources you should be doing way better regardless of where the government leans. Socialism brought a lot of good things all over Europe in the 1900s

Not offended. It is one of the most corrupt countries since socialism. It was thriving when I grew up there. But when you steal, oppress, and kill competent leaders because you resent them having more money than you, and give entire industries (steel, gold, petroleum) to the "workers" because they think collective thinking > a single phD who knows what he's doing, the industries rot and fail, like they did.

> give entire industries (steel, gold, petroleum) to the "workers"

That's one way to put it, the other way to put it is that your corrupt government seized the industries and put their cronies in charge, which I would say is more accurate.

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