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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.
Amd millennials found their replacement for housing bubble with the stocks / crypto bubble.
And democracy is good for boomers, because they are too many and outnumber everyone else in battle. So millennials and genz are not unsympathetic to less democracy (a view that Thiel shares).
Thiel in this context could be considered a boomer, and his interests lie with them
> While our company has a special role in the lives of this generation, this is likely particularly important for how I show up because I am the most well-known person of my generation. They really are up their own asses so much in this thread. Just the arrogance of these people absolutely kills me.
Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. this should be disqualifying for life in the public sphere and somehow it is not.
** 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…
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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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Devils advocate here I’m not agreeing, but I’m hard pressed to find another person that is from the millennial generation that has been a persistent “public figure” as long and persistently than Zuck. He has been persistently in the news more or less daily since 2006. Can you name another millennial that has a wider and longer lasting notoriety? Does that mean that people respect him, or think of him as an ideal pers…
> I’m hard pressed to find another person that is from the millennial generation that has been a persistent “public figure” as long and persistently than Zuck. Prince William and Prince Harry have him beat on that front, surely? They've been persistent public figures since birth. And if we limit it to modern times, Taylor Swift has got to be way more well known. Even my young kids know who Taylor Swift is. They have…
> I would be the last person to advocate for socialism. But when 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why. And, from the perspective of a broken generational compact, there seems to be a pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that when one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time and/or find it very hard to start accumulating capital in the form of real estate; and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.
But when he gives examples of the "iron grip" boomers have on power, he only talks about their control of universities and the government. He leaves out wealth and capital.
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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.
And Elon Musk does Nazi salutes in-front of the nation and just goes back to being CEO of things.
** 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…
** 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…