Peter Thiel is literally insane. The money has gone to his head, much the same way it happened to Elon Musk.
The research is very clear in this field, becoming so rich that you are always surrounded by yes people makes you delusional very quickly, and over time the delusions accumulate to become outright insanity.The possibility of becoming a billionaire needs to end. It is harmful both to the individual and to society.
And Americans let him feel safe doing so
yeah but Thiel is not a thrillionaire…yet
AFAIK Musk is the only trilionaire, but the effect can also happen way before a billion.
I see it happen with people making 35k a year look at maga
I don’t think that’s quite the same mechanism. People can be crazy without being rich too.
The crazy in the avarage MAGA crowd is probably for many founded in unconscious fear. But yes they are also delusional.
Targeted deflation. 2% deflation per year. Guts assets and increases the value of production over financialization. You need to produce more than 2% to be worth sinking money into. Kill zombie businesses. Debt becomes a serious consideration rather than a thing you do as the normal. Need to pull the pin on 120 years of foolishness
Targeted deflation. 2% deflation per year. Guts assets
No it doesn’t it increases the value of them, exactly opposite to inflation that gut financial assets, which is why they generally have an interest.
With deflation you don’t need any interest rate, for your financial assets to gain value.
Sooo… dragon sickness?
lol kind of but not exactly. It’s not the money itself, or the hoarding, it’s the sense of being right that stem from the ability to hoard successfully, and people around them that support that sense. It gives a sense that they understand things they really don’t, and that they can do things themselves that it is really people around them that do for them.
I was a billionaire last week. It is way over-rated, I went back.
Meme stocks are a hell of a drug, eh?
I’m so fucking glad more and more are recognizing how crazy Peter Thiel is.
Elon Musk is outwardly crazy and ruining the fucking world.
Peter Thiel (who btw is Musk’s inspiration and good friend) is batshit insane and avoiding the limelight for decades while manipulating world politics.
thiel for the longest time always stayed out of the news because of this. AI going bust probably getting people like him all nervous.
I thought thiel and musk personally hated the fuck out of each other, and describe each other pretty accurately?
There is no scorn as between that of competitive nerd losers.
He’s nuts. He killed his boyfriend.
I’ve actually discussed to him
tragic
Truly, once you pass a certain threshold of capital accumulation nothing can dethrone you. Not even your brain being turned to mush. The things Thiel says are the ravings of a lunatic. If he weren’t an oligarch they’d put him away. And obviously he’s not the only one. One has to wonder if perhaps it is the power itself that drives a man mad. There ought to be a marginal wealth tax that starts wherever the gains to happiness begin to diminish and build exponentially towards 100% at, say, 1000x the median net worth of a single individual. The way things are isn’t good for us or them.
Personally, I think an absolute cap on income, wealth, assets, and a limit of 1 focused business owned, with huge punishments for going beyond the limits. The elite get away with evading contributing to society, because there is an entire Wealth Defense industry to protect them from consequences. Making it impossible to hide money would be key to eliminating fiscal obesity and political corruption.
Money does this to people. Because money is power. And power corrupts absolutely.
Money also happens to reward and promote the worst kind of behaviors, so the richest people tend to already be the most psychopathically aligned.
I hope a gorilla escapes and rips this guy’s head off on live stream
That made me laugh out loud 😂
(Pic related hahaha)
And then Duke Nukem walks in and shits in his neck hole.
I like people who know what they want
“Don’t worry, it was a Banksy!”
Please stop reporting all the stupid things billionaires say.
What is truly mesmerizing is watching people conflate earning money with being smart about everything.
… or anything really.
Peter Thiel is a bad person. I don’t know how else to describe him. There are quiet billionaires who are like this behind closed doors, and then there are those that are vocally just bad people. No billionaire is a good person.
Even worse, actively, constantly, trying to convince others to be bad people as well.
I honestly wonder how these people sleep without being like…haunted by their own despicable selves.
I wonder how they eat without being poisoned by their cooks
If they had any conscience at all, they wouldn’t be nearly that wealthy
And who does Peter work for? Isn’t he the migrant to the US who is looking to move to Argentina?
What an idiot.
The US should do to the Catholic Church what we did to TikTok. I’m not going to feel safe until all the American diocese are owned by a fascist billionaire looking to milk the congregation’s data for AI training.
They kinda already did that considering that’s basically who the Mormons are. Hopefully I didn’t miss the point of the joke here.
If you are attacking the Catholic Pope for being a foreign agent of Communism… You might be the Antichrist. If you back the company that is named after the all-seeing orb turned evil from The Lord of the Rings… You might be the Antichrist. If you obsessively see any opposition or person trying to fight the climate crisis as “The Antichrist”… You might be the Antichrist. If you think Freedom, Democracy, and Governments are the enemies of good… You might be the Antichrist. If you think being against fascism is a bad thing… You might be the Antichrist. If you think humanity shouldn’t exist anymore because you believe in Transhumanism and not humanism… You might be the Antichrist.
He has suggested that the Antichrist is with us. He has said who it is in his speeches.
This is no joke, he thinks it probably is Greta Thunberg.
All hail Greta!
while thiel himself have actual APOSTATES : Karp, and jd vance, and a “controlled” puppet like trump plus the ability to distort reality for people who are easily manipulated.
named after the evil all-seeing orb in the Lord of the Rings
Now, now. A point of order.
The Palantiri are not evil, at least not originally. They were made by the elf Feanor in the Undying Lands, and for the vast majority of Middle Earth’s history, they were a tool for good, allowing the free people (especially Arnor and Gondor) to communicate with each other over long distances and monitor their kingdoms. However, with the fall of Arnor and the decline of Gondor, at least one of the Palantiri fell into the hands of Sauron, who used it for evil purposes. And this made all of the others dangerous to use as well, since using them would put one in direct communication with Sauron himself, potentially making one vulnerable to mind reading (as happened to Pippin), psychic influence (as perhaps happened to Saruman), or at least only being able to see things that Sauron wanted one to see (as happened to Denethor). Only someone more powerful than Sauron could use them safely at that point, and there was no one left in Middle Earth at that time who was powerful enough to do so. (Aragorn was able to somewhat do it … but he was only able to use it to directly communicate with Sauron – even he wasn’t able to fully control it and make it show whatever he wanted.)
It would be interesting to find out if Sauron’s influence over the Palantiri was permanent, or if it ended after his downfall. But, unfortunately, as far as I know, the story never mentions how they were affected in the aftermath. Could go either way. With the destruction of the One Ring, everything Sauron built with his power was undone, which could include the corruption of the Palantiri. However, the Palantiri do seem to be susceptible to getting fixated on certain things if they’re used for that purpose too much – for example, even long before Sauron, one of them was already fixated so it could only be used to look into the Undying Lands, and only someone extremely powerful could make it show anything else. So it’s possible that Sauron’s long use of them could have made the Palantiri in general or at least the Palantir in his possession permanently fixated on Mordor or something. It would have been nice to get some closure on that in the story, to find out if the Palantiri became useful again after Sauron’s fall.
Of course, none of this applies to the actual US surveillance company, which definitely is evil.
Excellent write-up. I learned a lot! Always something new to learn about Middle Earth. :)
I recently watched a video essay that tried to explain why all these billionaires basically do the “invent the Torment Nexus from the famous novel Do Not Invent the Torment Nexus” thing…
Essentially, in their minds they’re the hero. They have money and power and think they’ll do it differently. Skynet without Judgement Day, Blade Runner’s neon and flying cars without the social erosion, and so on…
It’s so weird how Thiel is such a “fan” of Tolkien’s works and yet his first move here was to double down on Boromir’s initial folly:
Boromir: “Why not use this Ring? Long has my father, the Steward of Gondor, kept the forces of Mordor at bay. By the blood of our people are your lands kept safe! Give Gondor the weapon of the enemy. Let us use it against him!”
Aragorn: “You cannot wield it! None of us can. The One Ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master.”
Imagine the hubris, thinking a global surveillance network with the power to designate its own targets would never be used by “the wrong hands.” Pathetic.
I’m 100% sure that guys like Thiel and Musk have only, at most, watched the LotR movies but certainly have never read the books.
Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. I have not read the books so I am just going by memory of the movie franchise which I haven’t seen since it first came out (and I have Long Covid) so the finer points of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion(Thank you spellcheck for that one) are not at my fingertips.
Considering the Death and Destruction of the real world Palantir, not to mention the evil use of general control and aid in creating a police state on purpose to the point that its employees have at several points have opened up large discussions that basically say “Are we the baddies???” I think the evil version of the Palantir shown in the films is the best analogue.
Anyway updating my post now.
i heard he is obsessed with the fanfic version written by a russian, called the last ringbearer.
Ah, of course he would be. The fanfic version where Sauron is a misunderstood hero.
Thiel is the antichrist? I thought the antichrist would be more powerful and less generally pathetic.
So says a horseman of the Apocalypse. A plague of eyes.
Good god that guy is absolutely fucked out of his mind.
Pretty sure Pete’s barber works for communist china
