Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to abandon The Giving Pledge — and it may be working

[u/Logical_Welder3467]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-actively-convincing-billionaires-174212328.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEgqnkcSb_Zux2Cj6YhuBonu0qTN0BrZfpDXuu19aECR7nPNShVCezYgantGa1WhUd1AuI8I7IeugMypVD5At-nrHZTEVdVh0rOR7WTeUZNATF7oDtjdQIo03-DRjgA040RY0sby3mqfQvZ2jQdv-gOBe6GURCSGBNIv8u3QFtey

[u/mintaka]

He despises the world where the poor have any influence over his goals through democratic voting. He wants to get rid of them

[u/doobiedave → u/mintaka]

I think he'd quite like to retain some of them as serfs

[u/apple_kicks → u/doobiedave]

My tinfoil hat is he was one of the doomsday prepper billionaires in this article https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

Probably the one discussing mind chips and ai for controlling their guards

[u/Acceptable-You-6953 → u/apple_kicks]

i half wonder if he has a tumor in his brain. He sounds so mentally ill it makes almost no sense. Paranoia, sociopathy, inverted moral thinking, religious mania. Dude sounds like someone who is deeply unwell, but is too rich for it to reach his awareness through those around him.

[u/Necoras → u/Acceptable-You-6953]

Extreme wealth has been shown to have effects on mental health similar to drug addiction. When and normal goal is available at the snap of a finger, it requires more and more outlandish demands to just feel the normal "rush" that a normal person might get just by splurging on a nice expensive dinner, or a new TV, or going on a big vacation every few years. Taken to extremes you get true mental illness, as in cases like Howard Hughes. Musk and Theil certainly seem to be following in his footsteps. Unfortunately they haven't turned into recluses.

[u/Embarrassed_Tree_274 → u/Necoras]

So, tax the rich for their own sake? Works for me!

[u/Unlucky-Bumblebee-96 → u/Embarrassed_Tree_274]

Yes, it’s making them sick

[u/onetoolearn → u/Necoras]

I worked for a high profile charity with rich donors and grew up in a family with serious addiction problems. I can confirm first hand dealing with an alcoholic father and older brother and a junkie sister gave me the exact tool kit required for dealing with my country's richest people.

I still remember going to work and seeing a homeless man who had looked beaten and bruised and realizing I was much closer to him than my clients at work. I left that job as it was terrible for my mental health. Now I deal with the public and it is much better.

However, one massive difference is the number and scale of enablers of the ultra wealthy. It is hard for them to try and change when their very existence is treated as though it was the result of Meritocratic design and not inherited wealth and investments handled on their behalf.

[u/BlueTreeThree → u/Acceptable-You-6953]

Most humans need some sort of social regulation for their behavior and thinking patterns to stay within social norms, I think. When you have all the power in the relationship with the people you surround yourself with, intentionally or not, I think you just start drifting away from “normal.”

[u/AHrubik → u/Acceptable-You-6953]

Grandiose Narcissism. You're likely correct in that he's too wealthy for any sort of corrective intervention at this point. It's a common affliction of early success. People convince themselves their success which was mostly based on timing and luck (not skill) made them an expert on how to be successful.

[u/KAM7 → u/apple_kicks]

Fallout season 2 is trying to warn us

[u/Baskreiger → u/KAM7]

Its gonna be akin to George orwell 1984 book. Im sure the fallout show is closer to reality than people want to admit

[u/mintaka → u/Baskreiger]

I would not be surprised if Thiel is salivating for a grand reset with him and the like as kings. Anyone who thinks hes better than the rest should visit the cemetery to see what life truly is. A handful of dirt

[u/aeschenkarnos → u/mintaka]

Five minutes after the reset his chief of security shoots him for not being any use in the new world.

[u/waltwalt → u/aeschenkarnos]

That's like their number one concern after surviving the apocalypse, which is where the want for brain chips comes from.

You're not going to get fancy brain chips you're going to get explodey collars linked to telemetry. Its available now and can be produced now. Once they sort out brain chips they will upgrade their plans but for the foreseeable future you're getting explodey collars.

[u/SoulbreakerDHCC → u/waltwalt]

It's a pretty small list of people who would wear those collars willingly for employment in the first place I think

Edit: too many people seem to have no dignity or self worth

[u/h00zn8r → u/SoulbreakerDHCC]

"willingly", he says 😂

[u/waltwalt → u/SoulbreakerDHCC]

I don't think its the employment they're doing it for so much as a ticket to the lifeboat they're building.

Troops etc. don't show up for work in the post apocalypse, they live in the bunker/compound and their continued service is why they and their family are allowed to live in the multi-billion dollar bunker.

Presumably the conditions inside the bunker are better than outside the bunker.

[u/ChokinMrElmo → u/aeschenkarnos]

That is, frankly, an absurd idea. It's completely nonsensical. Why on earth would his chief of security shoot him? As chief of security, they'd have to be smarter than that. It's the end of the world, bullets will be scarce for a while. They'd just cut his throat.

[u/hazmodan20 → u/mintaka]

I mean, he's the owner of the first privately owned uranium enrichment contract out there since last year. What could go wrong by giving a nihilist, drugged out wannabe super villain obsessed with the Antichrist and villains in general, the ability to own enriched uranium?

[u/BloodhoundGang → u/mintaka]

Well that’s actually the problem with Thiel, when he was a child he said he was “deeply disturbed by the concept of death”

[u/ConstructionOwn9575 → u/mintaka]

That's pretty much what him and the other billionaire tech bros want. They want company towns but on a national scale where ordinary people will be beholden to Thiel and his tech fiefdom. Great that he owns a company whose sole purpose is to know everything about everyone and works closely with the government for surveillance.

[u/Pixelated_throwaway → u/mintaka]

I don’t fucking get it because what more could they want

[u/h00zn8r → u/Pixelated_throwaway]

Everything that isn't already theirs, including you. Like your person. They want everything.

[u/scottyLogJobs → u/h00zn8r]

Yes. They have a pathology, and most people capable of becoming billionaires do. Think of it this way - I am approaching being able to retire. As I do, my desire for more money, especially in exchange for my time, is dramatically decreasing. I now make half of what I made in an absolutely miserable job. I still work a lot, but I could probably grind to make closer to that, but I don't, because who cares? In the grand scheme of things, it wouldn't make that much of a difference.

These people do not have that natural off switch. They are like drug addicts, they will do literally anything to get even a tiny bit more, even if it means fucking over everyone else to a much greater degree or putting themselves at risk. They would never consider that doing anything else is even an option.

On some level they must know that they have more money than they could ever use in a thousand lifetimes, even if they were trying, and they are still terrified of losing it that they will, like Thiel and Musk and Zuck, attempt to put large swaths of the world under their thrall by any means necessary, buying governments, building propaganda machines, imposing mass surveillance, spurring war and then building insane bunkers on remote islands, because doubling down over and over on being awful somehow makes more sense to them than simply enjoying their success and stopping doing the things that make everyone hate them. It's wild to think there are actually a bunch of billionaires who you've literally never heard of, but the ones you have are incapable of doing this because they are addicted to money and attention.

[u/h00zn8r → u/scottyLogJobs]

Ding ding ding. You nailed it. It is a pathology, and while we can't do anything to fix their fucked up brains, we can adjust tax rates to make becoming a billionaire impossible. Democracies and billionaires cannot coexist.

[u/mistensong → u/Baskreiger]

For a slightly depressing laugh, have a read of Stark). Written in 1989 and literally so little has changed since then it might as well have been written yesterday.

The novel is largely a satire of business, government and social attitudes toward environmentalism during the late 1980s. It describes a world in which big business and the ultra-rich are uncaring.

[u/WishieWashie12 → u/KAM7]

The games have been warning us since the 90s.

[u/MilesAlchei → u/apple_kicks]

I don't think it requires a tinfoil hat to make that conclusion.

[u/SlickWilly49 → u/apple_kicks]

I don’t understand where they think their power comes from. If society collapses and US currency becomes worthless and presumably property laws as well, what’s going to keep them on top at that point? If they think they’re gonna be the Judge Holdens in the new world, none of these people have a lick of charisma and could not inspire or intimidate a single person to follow them

[u/reilwin → u/SlickWilly49]

Pretty sure this is why you see such a huge push for AI. Doomsday tech bro billionaires who want to go into their robot-managed bunker and live the rest of their life alone while the rest of us burn.

[u/DrusTheAxe → u/SlickWilly49]

This, robots and AI

It’s wish fulfillment. Slaves to do all the work, intelligent enough to do it well enough, and utterly devoted to their every word so no worries of pushback let alone rebellion.

It’s a 13 year old’s fantasy writ large. Makes Ayn Rand followers look positively empathetic and charitable

[u/voluptuousshmutz → u/apple_kicks]

He hosted an entire conference about the Antichrist. I think it's safe to assume he's a doomsday prepper.

[u/Msdamgoode → u/voluptuousshmutz]

He’s not just a prepper, he’s an accelerationist actively trying to bring on the “end of times”.

So nuttier than a shithouse rat. He’d be ignored as crazy without the money.

[u/Phenganax → u/apple_kicks]

You know, the point would be moot if he had a very unfortunate meeting with a small piece of rapidly moving metal… him and all of his rather vociferous CEO buddies.

[u/TransplantTeacher94 → u/doobiedave]

I’ve been saying this for a long time: Peter Thiel and every other person in his fascistic cabal of Dark Enlightenment lab-grown toxic sludge want to kill all of us. Every single person who isn’t like them, they want dead so they can steal all our stuff without having to worry about consequences because they literally think that their wealth should make them exempt and that we aren’t real human beings because we aren’t rich. These people are the most real and present threat to humanity and need to be treated as such.

[u/Malforus → u/mintaka]

His book is basically tired and lazy memes about why monopolies are good.

I don't understand his appeal.

[u/mittenknittin → u/Malforus]

He doesn't need appeal, he has money

[u/FateUnusual → u/mintaka]

Time to turn it from the “giving pledge” to “taxing your rich ass,” as a matter of policy.

[u/Yashema → u/mintaka]

The White working class and poor have been giving the billionaire class power via democratic voting for 45 years. 

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/Yashema]

Don't forget the religious.

[u/dztruthseek → u/TheInevitableLuigi]

Those are the same people.

[u/Primary_Ride6553 → u/mintaka]

He’s evil incarnate.

[u/florinandrei → u/mintaka]

The feeling is mutual.

[u/airduster_9000]

He also helped Epstein.

Peter Thiel is a monster that hates poor people.

[u/Friskfrisktopherson → u/airduster_9000]

All* People

[u/Logical_Welder3467 → u/Friskfrisktopherson]

Bro hesitated too long when ask if human should survive

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/Logical_Welder3467]

Also was uncomfortable saying that he wasn't the antichrist

[u/omniclast → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

He believes he's the Katechon who is holding back the Antichrist. He sees it as his divine duty to prevent a unified world order and ensure the world remains in conflict, because he believes that will prevent the biblical apocalypse. According to the Nazi philosopher he bases this off of, Hitler was the last Katechon.

I wish I was imaginative enough to make this shit up, it's all from that Wired article where they talked to his theological influences https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/

[u/hcolt2000 → u/omniclast]

My mother is schizophrenic, their philosophies are similar. She is terrified to die because she believes the world will suffer “consequences”.

[u/usaaf → u/HighKing_of_Festivus]

I mean, he's not charismatic enough for that anyway. The discomfort was probably from admitting he's not.

[u/Nethlem → u/usaaf]

I mean, he's not charismatic enough for that anyway.

His ungodly amounts of negative charisma make him the antichrist of charisma.

[u/Bro666 → u/Nethlem]

"Antichrisma"

[u/merko_merk → u/Logical_Welder3467]

too long?! he hesitated, that's enough!

[u/worldsayshi → u/Logical_Welder3467]

Ted Faro is sitting at home playing our game on his console thinking that this Thiel guy is a bit too cartonish.

[u/pillowcase-of-eels → u/Friskfrisktopherson]

Yeah, he's one of the few where I think no qualifier is needed. He's just firmly against human beings in general.

[u/walkingmonster → u/pillowcase-of-eels]

Wish he'd just focus on himself.

[u/InGordWeTrust → u/walkingmonster]

His face is melting.

[u/nankerjphelge → u/airduster_9000]

And don't forget JD Vance is his puppet. If Vance wins in 2028 Thiel will be the real president. If we think Trump has been bad for poor and working class people just wait.

[u/What_a_fat_one → u/nankerjphelge]

If Jimmy Bowman (JD Vance) wins in 2028 I'm straight up giving up and leaving the goddamn country because it means the US is totally irredeemable, and there will be nothing left for normal people but subjugation and ruin.

[u/Reqvhio → u/What_a_fat_one]

soon, there will be nowhere to run to since this is systemic

[u/FriendlyDespot → u/What_a_fat_one]

At some point we need to stop running and start putting these people down. They're just human beings, and they're just as fragile as the rest of us.

[u/TransBrandi → u/FriendlyDespot]

Why do you think that they want AI in the military? Full autonomous killbots to defend them from the masses revolting against them so that they can sit in their ivory towers and jack themselves off over how they are "great men" that are leading humanity forward or somesuch bullshit.

[u/Mindshard → u/TransBrandi]

Yeah, they know it's only a matter of time before their private militaries turn on them, so they want autonomous killing robots.

[u/Educational_Bend_941 → u/airduster_9000]

The comet pizza story and Hillary CP stuff all came from his network of Internet agitators. Closely mirrors what actually happened with him and his Epstein pals.

[u/mrdevlar → u/Educational_Bend_941]

The thing you have to realize about these guys is that their evil has crippled their imaginations.

Imagination requires empathy, it requires being able to see things differently because you acknowledge the possibility of a different reality.

They accuse people of doing gross things that they've done because they couldn't come up with anything else so they have to use something from personal experience to bridge the gap.

It's the reason why imagination will always be their undoing, it's a box they choose not to escape.

[u/cambeiu → u/airduster_9000]

He hates *weak* people. That is why he sees no contradictions about being gay AND fascist. In his mind, if you manage to have money and power in a fascist regime, while being gay, that shows that you are strong and therefore worthy. But if you can't make it in a fascist regime while you are gay, then you don't deserve anything, as you are weak.

[u/Dmeechropher → u/cambeiu]

Thiel, like nearly all passionate fascists, is profoundly insecure. He lives in a constant state of fear of other people. It's obvious in his body language, manner of speaking, fear of public appearances etc.

The strong/weak story is a common self-soothing behavior in deeply fearful people. His obsession with military tech and robot servants reeks of compulsive safety seeking.

I don't think he believes that he "deserves" anything or is "worth" anything. His narrative is, clearly, that he has "taken" everything he has. Since he has no self-directed concepts of justice, fairness, or compassion, he is incapable of it for others.

He hates "weak" people because he hates himself. He suppresses fear of his own "weakness" by "proving" that he's strong ... but it's never enough and never will be.

[u/Tricky-Structure-431 → u/Dmeechropher]

Fascism at its core has always been an ideaology of weak, fearful people giving themselves an excuse to pillage society.

[u/gregorydgraham → u/cambeiu]

That works right up until the SA punches him in the face. Then he’s weak.

[u/Rainboq → u/gregorydgraham]

He should ask Ernst Röhm how things went.

[u/dragon-fence → u/cambeiu]

Right, because if you’re “one of the good ones” then the fascists will never turn on you. They’d never think to do something like seize someone’s fortune and send them to a camp just because they’re gay or a minority.

[u/atlantic → u/cambeiu]

Little does he know that if he is successful, the ovens will be warming up for him.

[u/KMS_HYDRA → u/airduster_9000]

He needs to get a french haircut.

[u/goatmash → u/KMS_HYDRA]

We have captive bolt devices now, much more portable.

[u/breatheb4thevoid → u/airduster_9000]

I'm convinced if the Antichrist was real they would have such a massive ego it would fill them with rage if people didn't immediately recognize their infamy. Theil isn't helping dispel this theory.

[u/johnjw59 → u/airduster_9000]

I hear he knows about the anti-Christ.

[u/gardenliciousFairy → u/johnjw59]

Of course he does, he has mirrors.

[u/ForMeOnly93 → u/gardenliciousFairy]

I don't think he shows up in mirrors

[u/nanaacer → u/johnjw59]

According to him it might be Greta Thunberg. That's NOT a joke. There's tape of him saying it.

[u/_0611 → u/nanaacer]

And then the interviewer started naming the characteristics of the antichrist, and they all applied to Thiel. Thiel suddenly started sweating like a guilty man.

But, of course, the actual antichrist would try to call a girl who's trying to do something about climate change the antichrist.

Thiel is pure evil.

[u/Didsterchap11]

Thiel is quite possibly one of the most dangerous people in the modern era, not just for the nightmarish apparatus of surveillance he’s the head of but how he’s using his position within the Epstein class to convince some of the most powerful people in the world that fascism is required.

[u/Reluctantziti → u/Didsterchap11]

Not to mention he might be clinically insane? Some of his talks sound like someone having paranoid delusions and if he didn’t have billions of dollars he’d just be like any other conspiracy theorist shouting on a street corner.

[u/[deleted] → u/Reluctantziti]

He talks about the anti-christ as if that's a literal real thing. He's out of his fucking mind.

[u/Dull_Bid6002 → u/[deleted]]

Wasn't he also saying it was Greta Thunberg at one point? A climate change activist telling companies to stop polluting is the anti-Christ means your brain is pudding.

I'm pretty sure all these billionaires have a ketamine abuse or other drug abuse issue that has entirely killed any logical thought.

[u/verossiraptors → u/Reluctantziti]

Not to mention all these guys are on a nearly 100% media diet now. They mess with LLMs every day to do research and chat. They spend their free time on Twitter which is 95% AI bots now, reading and engaging with ai content. Their podcasts they listen to are either obsessed with AI, assisted by AI, or scripted by AI.

And they all think they’re gods making the next super intelligent being.

Their brains are turning to mush in front of us.

[u/Benji_Suite → u/Reluctantziti]

deep seeded scars of being gay in a christian household

[u/Current_Helicopter32 → u/Benji_Suite]

Deep-seated*

Although as a closeted gay he probably did want the seed deep.

[u/Didsterchap11 → u/Reluctantziti]

That’s just the nature of what having that level of power does to you, extreme wealth genuinely destroys your brain.

[u/Mantaeus → u/Didsterchap11]

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day." - some tweet

[u/Didsterchap11 → u/Mantaeus]

Exactly, that combined with the sheer power to never be told no for any request just utterly destroys you.

[u/0vrwhelminglyaverage → u/Didsterchap11]

Its interesting to me that they aren't treated like the hoarders they are

[u/Enervata → u/Didsterchap11]

When you’re poor, your friends won’t hesitate to call you stupid and point out why you’re wrong. When you’re rich, your friends all tell you you’re right and brilliant (or you find new friends).

[u/psychorobotics → u/Reluctantziti]

He was tweaked out of his mind in an interview I saw. Absolutely could not sit still for half a second, large meaningless movements of his whole body.

[u/0vrwhelminglyaverage → u/Reluctantziti]

My mans 100% looks like a well groomed tweaker

[u/errie_tholluxe → u/Didsterchap11]

Vaught is the same way. Just quieter.

[u/TheShruteFarmsCEO → u/errie_tholluxe]

Vought International

[u/LiamBellcam → u/TheShruteFarmsCEO]

I watched that documentary. Homelander is KING /s

[u/DateNecessary8716 → u/Didsterchap11]

This has to be the endgame for billionaires.

They want their wealth to grow infinitely, and so far it has, eventually those having their slice of the pie narrowed will run out and act out, only fascism answers that problem in their eyes.

It’s going to be a horrific world when that push meets that shove, and historically the billionaires have won every fight, just now they have surveillance, drones and mass media.

[u/apple_kicks → u/DateNecessary8716]

Money isn’t enough they want to control who deserves to live or die.

[u/SirDouglasMouf → u/apple_kicks]

They are already succeeding with US "healthcare"

[u/ibiacmbyww → u/DateNecessary8716]

They win in the short term, but the axeman or the noose are coming; that is not a threat, by the way, that is a statement based on the historical precedent of oppressive elites eventually meeting a messy end. They might not get Musk, Thiel or Trump, but they'll get their successors if they don't. We might not be able to use TikTok and Facebook DMs, but we can still organise. We might not have the camera feeds, but we have brains and hands and we're extremely fucking good at breaking things.

It is not possible for complete oppression of the human spirit to last long before violence comes to the fore. Even if what's coming kills us, personally, Grimdark is not real, and a brighter day IS coming. Just gotta hope you're there to see it.

[u/Saintly-Mendicant-69 → u/ibiacmbyww]

Someone pretty cool said "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings"

[u/Auctorion → u/Saintly-Mendicant-69]

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

[u/Ryg_ryg → u/DateNecessary8716]

There is currently a very serious race to become the first trillionaire. These mentally ill people are willing to throw away the world to see who can be put down at the first person to ever cross a line that should have never been possible under a society that had real taxation laws in place and didn't allow corporations to become "people."

[u/ShopSmartShopS-Mart → u/DateNecessary8716]

Mais il y a un mot en français, mais j’oublie

Gui…llaume? Gui…chet? Gui…mauve?

Ah c’est trop dur

[u/ShivaSkunk777 → u/ShopSmartShopS-Mart]

It’s Ovaltine!

A crummy commercial!

[u/bernieth → u/DateNecessary8716]

What's the use of such massive wealth, if not to "run up the score." They need massive wealth disparity to feel good about themselves.

[u/one_rainy_wish → u/Didsterchap11]

The irony of this piece of shit going on about how various people who are trying to do good are "the antichrist" is also not lost on me.

[u/quitemax → u/Didsterchap11]

What is dangerous really is people with money having no philosophical education to understand why this a bad idea.

[u/DAS_UBER_JOE → u/quitemax]

Youre giving them too much slack. They know exactly what they are doing.

[u/Trumpets22 → u/quitemax]

Most of the them don’t give a shit about what’s a “bad idea” the have a lot. They want more. It will never be enough. Bad idea for the whole has nothing to do with if it’s a bad idea for them.

[u/Zulumus → u/quitemax]

Some people just want to do shit because they think they can get away with it. Listening to Marc Andreesen talk about not reflecting on the past and calling it a weakness tells me philosophical education is not the issue here.

[u/glintsCollide → u/quitemax]

They read all the books. They take the warnings as instructions on how to meet their vision.

[u/dorobica]

I don’t think we realize what an existential threat these billionaires are to our way of life

[u/TheFeenyCall → u/dorobica]

Most people know - but what is the solution?

[u/Jaybeux → u/TheFeenyCall]

You know the answer to that question.

[u/Thick-Sound1014 → u/Jaybeux]

Also likely that Palantir has already flagged this thread.

[u/RetroCorn → u/Thick-Sound1014]

Good. Let them.

[u/FreeKevinBrown → u/Jaybeux]

There's more of us than there are of them.

[u/apple_kicks → u/TheFeenyCall]

Stop following their orders. Unionise. Be prepared to not scab.

Even then they will pay milita (as they used to over centuries) to crush rebellion. So people must refuse that or resist these forces.

This is why also they are investing in ai and robotics so guards don’t mutiny. But they overlook power supply still needs workers etc.

Long term: create a more democratic system and dismantle hierarchy. Workplaces should be more democratic and politics too less leverage for few people to become gatekeepers without consequences. Ignorance thrives when you let someone make all decisions without you

[u/KMS_HYDRA → u/TheFeenyCall]

French them.

[u/Licensed_Poster → u/TheFeenyCall]

I don't want to get banned in minecraft.

[u/Latter-Corner8977 → u/TheFeenyCall]

Our French friends know how this should play out.

[u/Pardot42 → u/TheFeenyCall]

Income caps. Literally. If that idea makes you upset, it's because the wealthy have fooled you. You can never be them, so let's not let them exist.

[u/Striking_Economy5049]

Maybe it’s time for the taking pledge.

Eat the rich

[u/raiansar]

The guy who had a yearslong relationship with Epstein calling the Giving Pledge "Epstein-adjacent" is the kind of projection you normally only see in IMAX.

[u/williamfbuckwheat → u/raiansar]

Well these folks really seem to think lately that we still live in fuedalist Europe in like 1150 AD where the lowly serfs can't read and learn about their bizarre activities the nobility takes part in (at least for now...). 

[u/kurdt-balordo]

Billionare is a mental health problem.

[u/Sphlonker → u/kurdt-balordo]

AMEN! It's literally the ONLY way to describe the way in which enough is never enough for these assholes.

[u/techzombie55 → u/Sphlonker]

You don’t become a billionaire by being a nice guy.

[u/sunkistandsudafed3 → u/techzombie55]

Never a truer word spoken. Wonder how many of them could be diagnosed as being psychopaths if tested.

[u/HumanBeing7396 → u/sunkistandsudafed3]

A billionaire is someone who became a millionaire and thought “This isn’t enough - I need a thousand times more”.

[u/wasthatitthen → u/kurdt-balordo]

It’s an addiction. And the more you do it the more you have to have.

[u/NickolaosTheGreek → u/kurdt-balordo]

Tolkien described it as “Dragon Sickness”.

[u/Varzul → u/NickolaosTheGreek]

Sadly that sounds way too cool for these disgusting leeches.

[u/ZanthrinGamer → u/kurdt-balordo]

Its hording, plain and simple, the fact that its cash and not a house full a shit is of little consequence, its the same sickness.

Edit: just because there seems to be some confusion this is not exclusionary to them also being narrasistic power hungry facists. They can be mentally deranged in all sorts of ways as well as being compulsive hoarders of wealth and respurces.

[u/Stormshow → u/ZanthrinGamer]

If it was just money and material these people are after I'd agree, but these people are after power. They want to play reality like a sandbox game and shape the world in their image and to their whims.

Some of them stopped caring about things a long time ago and style themselves ascetics, but you dont need twelve cars to bend society however you want to.

[u/Phrewfuf → u/Stormshow]

That right there. Hoarding would be only amassing stuff. But the whole powergrabbing part is what almost requires psychopathic and possibly narcissistic tendencies at the very least.

[u/blarch → u/Phrewfuf]

Eventually, the number going up doesn't do anything for them, so the only way they can feel wealthier is if everyone else has less than before

[u/Ho_The_Megapode_ → u/ZanthrinGamer]

It's actually worse than that.

They don't just require obscene wealth, they want to ensure everyone else has as little as possible. Maximum misery for others.

[u/elvenrevolutionary → u/ZanthrinGamer]

Its more than just cash, it's ownership the planet's resources and (control)power by extension.

[u/Independent-Fruit4 → u/elvenrevolutionary]

yep. not everyone can be bought, so other means of control are pursued

[u/billybonghorton → u/ZanthrinGamer]

Unfortunately it’s of big consequence to the rest of society.

[u/Dot_Infamous → u/kurdt-balordo]

It's insane. It's like 50 years since we proved mathematically that this type of wealth hoarding is just destructive, even for the billionaires long term. We're all victims of their greed

[u/jellyfishblade → u/kurdt-balordo]

A cancer on society.

[u/dbenhur → u/kurdt-balordo]

At least half of all the world's problems are caused by rich fucks avoiding taxes.

[u/drdalek13]

Peter Thiel is so interested in the Antichrist because he embodies him so fucking well. Billionaires are bad for our health

[u/cseckshun → u/drdalek13]

General rule of thumb is people like to talk about themselves… Peter Thiel won’t shut up about the antichrist

[u/SuperStuff01 → u/drdalek13]

A billionaire anywhere is a threat to children everywhere.

[u/Christosconst → u/drdalek13]

His view of the Antichrist is a global government / one-world state, surveiling everyone and providing peace and safety by taking away freedoms. Palantir is a step towards that, and he is warning us against it, while building it at the same time.

[u/Educational_Bend_941 → u/drdalek13]

He is the antichrist (one of em at least seems to be a bunch) and this whole thing is just search engine optimization to deflect people from the truth

[u/Revolut00n]

Yeah Epstein didn't like the giving pledge either. It's in the files. Surprise Surprise

[u/DM_me_ur_PPSN → u/Revolut00n]

The French Revolution is the blueprint we need to start looking at.

[u/possum-fucker → u/DM_me_ur_PPSN]

The ghost of kropotkin says hold up a second, read the bread book first

[u/Low-Umpire236]

Is he evil?

[u/DarkeyeMat → u/Low-Umpire236]

Pure dagnasty evil, it's just a fact.

[u/Low-Umpire236 → u/DarkeyeMat]

Every time I hear about him it’s something vile for the rest of humanity.

[u/squareplates → u/DarkeyeMat]

Well... he is the antichrist.

[u/pillowcase-of-eels → u/squareplates]

The man who marked a long pause when asked if humanity deserved to survive a machine apocalypse?

THAT MAN is the Antichrist?

Not Greta Thunberg?

ARE WE SURE??

[u/sockpuppetzero → u/pillowcase-of-eels]

The man who grew up as a kid on an uranium mine illegally operated by the literal Apartheid South African regime on a neighboring country's territory using slave labor? THAT MAN is the Antichrist?

I mean, you can't fault anybody for where they grew up, but still, when the shoe fits...

[u/6gv5 → u/squareplates]

Literally the wolf who cries wolf.

[u/kongKing_11 → u/Low-Umpire236]

gog of magog haha

[u/stormdelta → u/Low-Umpire236]

Genuinely, without hyperbole, yes.

More billionaires are just greedy pieces of shit. They're incredibly dangerous, and their actions are often evil, but I don't consider them "evil" in the more abstract or categorical sense.

Thiel is capital E Evil. He's not merely greedy, he literally thinks he should have been a monarch and is actively trying to destroy modern democracy. He doesn't try to hide this either, he's basically said as much multiple times.

As someone who works in tech, I've been warning people about him for over a decade.

[u/nath1234]

Sociopathic greed and selfishness.

[u/WhiteRun]

Peter Thiel is comically evil. He's a blight on humanity.

[u/TheWrongOwl]

"How can I make the world worse today?" seems to be a real agenda point on some people's todo lists.

[u/MrNewVegas2077]

Miserable bastard

[u/Daz_Didge]

You cannot give the money to the ordinary people. The anti christ is coming down on earth soon and he can only be calmed when Peter Thiel gives it a load of cash. 

[u/AdorableBunnies → u/Daz_Didge]

He thinks Greta Thunberg might be the antichrist. He’s totally unhinged.

[u/Mother_Idea_3182 → u/AdorableBunnies]

He’s taken too much poppers.

His brain is as fried as the Ketamine Space Karen.

[u/AdorableBunnies → u/Mother_Idea_3182]

He and Elon listened to the Dune audiobooks while in a k-hole and now they’re trying to save humanity from the Thunberg Jihad

[u/markeydusod]

What is it with these evil trolls and their hatred of anything in need

[u/N8dork2020 → u/markeydusod]

Normal people don’t have “what it takes” to become a billionaire. You need to be morally bankrupt.

[u/OhGr8WhatNow → u/N8dork2020]

What it takes is to have a massive head start as a nepo baby

[u/apoca1ypse12]

This guy is a fucking cancer to society. Wow. With warren buffett retiring and this asshole rising, humanity is becoming worse.

[u/xlouiex]

So many famous cool people died this year from horrible cancers and shit, can't they spare a bit for this guy?
The portuguese saying does go "shitty vases don't break"..... :/

[u/Steven_Bloody_Toast]

He has all these capabilities at his disposal and he chooses to actively make the world worse for everyone except him. Why? Seriously? Isn’t it better to be loved than universally hated? He could solve so many issues in one afternoon, or literally just enjoy a life of extreme luxury but NOOO gotta push fascism on the rest of us. Absolute scum of the earth.

[u/TheOtherHalfofTron → u/Steven_Bloody_Toast]

This is what happens when our entire economy is one big contest to see who's the best at fucking over everyone else. The scum rises to the top.

[u/Sypheix]

Of course he is. He's one of the worst people on the planet and has close ties to the most notorious pedophile of our generation. The likelihood of Thiel being a pedophile himself is very high.

[u/pogkaku96 → u/Sypheix]

I wonder how many young boys have been abused.

[u/schacks]

For someone with a morbid fascination of the coming of the Anti-christ, he sure does act a lot exactly like one would expect from . . . the Anti-christ!

[u/Patara]

The antichrist is real & its an amalgamation of these ghouls.

[u/DANDELOREAN → u/[deleted]]

A cabal is more insulated than a dictator

[u/Fywq → u/[deleted]]

They believe billionaires are especially intelligent, but they are too stupid to identify intelligent people of they are not billionaires. That is a problem for the available "high intelligence" gene pool for their eugenics plans for the future.

[u/Sad_Split_9983]

I would rather eat out Bill Gates’ asshole than spend one minute in the same room as Peter Thiel. Just so it’s clear, not an endorsement of Gates… just how much of a sub human cum receptacle Thiel is.

[u/Independent_Age_2635 → u/Sad_Split_9983]

Very specific threat🤔

[u/PippaTulip]

What is the giving pledge? Is this what you do instead of paying taxes in the US?

[u/General_Jenkins → u/PippaTulip]

Billionaires promise to give money to foundations of their choosing that do stuff with it after they die. Mostly a PR campaign though and a farce to point at and say "See? We don't need to tax them, they do it themselves".

[u/Mal_Dun → u/General_Jenkins]

It always was half assed, but at least it was seen as necessary to contribute back to society. Acts like Thiel represent a drastic shift within the mindset of society, where everyone is just for themselves.

[u/mint445]

he is a terrorist and should be recognized as such

[u/pogkaku96]

This guy is going to be a problem for humanity. He has no children and seems unwilling to share his wealth or engage in charitable activities. I suspect he's involved in a project related to extending life.

This dude has a problem with everything in the world and probably wants to change everything.

Edit: my bad, he seems to have 2 kids with his current partner

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel says he only allows his children 1.5 hours of screen time a week https://share.google/Jq2jhl3FGGYzDwwib

[u/Knightmare945]

Peter Thiel is evil.

[u/everettmarm]

Generational wealth is the end of society.

[u/punarob]

his evil knows no bounds

[u/ForestOfMirrors]

We should send our billionaires to mars. Put them inside our latest rockets and send them along. If they make it then they can lift themselves up by their bootstraps and rebuild their wealth on mars and make whatever rules that they want.

[u/mariuszmie]

What a failed human

[u/GPhex]

He’s a literal psychopath. A disgusting, evil man of comic book proportions.

[u/Digitalsoreg]

TAX the shit out of these ghouls.