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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 rich_sasha »

culi wrote: post #49
rbanffy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.

Maybe this will help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_coups_in_Argentina There are only two countries in the entire South America that DO NOT have the experience of having a democratically elected leader overthrown in a US-backed coup.

Ironically, to complete the pattern, the US has just established a (hereditary?) dictatorship in it's own green land. Via elections.

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Post by frm88 »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #11

“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

In an interview with Joe Rogan on YouTube, Peter Thiel said that if people want roads, they should come together and build them or pay for them to be built.

https://youtu.be/klRb0_BAX9g?si=6GPB2Edq12Xzl3AY

It's 3.5 hours and I can't give a timestamp where exactly he said that and I really, really don't want to watch that again, so here's the transcript if you want to search: https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/the-joe-rogan-experience/21....

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Post by insane_dreamer »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #11

“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

The irony that Palantir's primary source of income is ... taxes. So clearly Thiel likes taxes, he just doesn't want rich people paying them.

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Post by brador »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #11

“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

Taxes also pay for pol and mil that keep people, including them, safe. Capitalist libertarians like to not think about that part.

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Post by 113 »

frm88 wrote: post #52
laweijfmvo wrote: post #11

“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’ In an interview with Joe Rogan on YouTube, Peter Thiel said that if people want roads, they should come together and build them or pay for them to be built. https://youtu.be/klRb0_BAX9g?si=6GPB2Edq12Xzl3AY It's 3.5 hours and I can't give a timestamp where exactly he said that and I really, really don't want to watch that again, so here's the tra…

> come together and build them or pay for them to be built

That's just taxes!

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Post by bryanlarsen »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #11

“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

Billionaires don't need roads, hospitals and schools for their own family.

What they do need is a large marketplace of wealthy customers to buy their products, a large pool of educated people to choose their employees from, safe global transportation, a trust based economy where contracts can be relied on, where the fallback of using the court system is reliable enough that courts or extra judicial means are very rarely needed.

IOW billionaires need modern Western society far more than modern society needs them.

Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Post by aaron695 »

arjie wrote: post #24
pan69 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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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Re: Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

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Post by halJordan »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #53
laweijfmvo wrote: post #11

“This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.” I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

The irony that Palantir's primary source of income is ... taxes. So clearly Thiel likes taxes, he just doesn't want rich people paying them.

Strictly speaking I think palantir's income comes from borrowed money, but who's counting dollars lol not the people in charge
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