No matter how hard I try I fail to see why would anyone mentally stable dislike Peter Thiel.
Besides hating immigrants and Palantir contributing to the surveillance state? Just like drug dealers, I guess someone else would do it if he weren't.
Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
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#52Isn't Thiel the one that believes democracy and freedom are incompatible and also a co-founder of Palantir? Why do we give these people any legitimacy? Because they have money?
We don't give them legitimacy. The people who govern us do; they don't actually care about democracy, the second it causes them to lose elections. Look at Trump: lost an election, incited a riot to overthrow the peaceful transfer of power, pardoned those who were complicit in it.
The sad thing is, because the Dem playbook is now "fight fire with fire" (cf. the gerrymandering wars), it is only a matter of time until they stoop to the same level of overthrowing legitimate elections, in the name of fighting fire with fire...
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#53> Of course, there are numerous ways in which this role (Mark as Millennial spokesman) is both pretty unfair and highly inappropriate. It is unfair because this much of a burden should not be placed on any single person; and it is inappropriate because Mark is a highly unrepresentative example of the Millennial generation, for a whole range of reasons that we do not need to enumerate. But even with these caveats, I believe that we might be better served by understanding that something like this is going on and trying to think about what it would mean for Mark to think of himself as a Millennial spokesman... and perhaps to contrast this with what I take to be our current policy (at least implicitly) — of Mark as a Baby Boomer construct of how a well-behaved Millennial is supposed to act. If forced to make a choice, I would always rather win popularity contests with Millennials than with Boomers!
That entire paragraph is mind bending. I really wish he had enumerated for a wider audience what was there because you could read something quite profound into it.
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#55Re: Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)
#56This 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.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
r/Millennials has a relevant list of Millennial celebrities. https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1g1gw7v/famous... Zuckerberg thinks he’s more well-known than Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Scarlett Johansson, Adele, Lady Gaga, Cristiano Ronaldo, Beyoncé…
I mean, he is *as* well known as those people. You think more people know who Ed Sheeran than Zuckerberg?
Are you aware that Ed Sheeran is one of—and was not that long ago the—best selling music artist in the world?
The fact you only nitpicked a single name from that list is, I think, quite telling. We know who Zuckerberg is. Non-tech-nerds just going on with their lives don’t for the most part, even if they use apps from Meta. If they even heard the name, it was due to some negative news related to Facebook or Meta.
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#58> One theme we've discussed is that many important institutions in our society (eg education, healthcare, housing, efforts to combat climate change) are still run primarily by boomers in ways that transfer a lot of value from younger generations to boomers themselves. I do not understand the reason for assuming any successive group of old leaders to behave differently than boomers? Millenials are going to have an eve…
The era you experienced growing up can influence how you are when you get older quite a bit. The generation before the Great Depression tried to create a more progressive equitable world but of course that was eroded eventually. Everything goes in cycles and the next generation coming that experiences the fallout from all our recent excesses will be different as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era
The key parameter that has changed all over the world is there are more net benefit recipients than net payers in (i.e. far more old people relative to young people).
By far, the largest wealth transfer that happens is young to old, via defined benefit pensions (such as social security), healthcare, and asset price increases (via decreases in purchasing power of the currency).
In a democracy, most voters will vote for these policies, because most voters are or will soon be beneficiaries of these policies. I am betting that Millenials, once they are in their 50s, will continue voting for the same policies that Boomers have for the past 20 years, since they will have the same incentives.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
We must understand that all of our industries leaders are deeply mentally ill and dangerous people. Whether that is from not ever being told no once they got rich enough or whether it's pathological to even seek out that dimension of wealth is not clear, but the result is worrying either way.
Understanding isn't going far enough (though it's a nescessary first step), We should all be demanding that our governments reign these idiots in before they do something we can't undo. That Clegg is in these emails is particularly onerous.
Britain's ex-Deputy Prime Minister it so happens.
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#60It's extremely telling that as Thiel is talking about Zuck's speech at Harvard, he is using the pronoun "we", as if Thiel was also giving the speech.
Zuck is Thiel's mouthpiece, through and through. And it explains everything about Meta.