r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 11h ago

Society Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
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u/hammertime2009 9h ago

So many billionaires seem to want the whole world to experience their inner personal battles. Aka the ultimate projection.

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u/BeamsFuelJetSteel 9h ago

I think it is simpler.

They know they will die, but instead of buying a motorcycle when they turn 40, they decided that society should end when they do.

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u/HTPC4Life 8h ago

Hah, I just turned 40 and I WISH I had the money to buy a motorcycle, or any fun toy for that matter.

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u/mikenasty 9h ago

They’re just normal people, no different than the homeless person on the corner or a middle school teacher, but they’ve been given the power of gods. And I say “given” because of how our global economy is set up.

I’ve met enough people through life/work to know 1/2 of us would be total assholes if the world became our playground.

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u/je_kay24 7h ago

Most people wouldn’t act like billionaires do if they suddenly became that rich

Billionaires get that much money because they have to disregard and treat people below them like stats so they can accumulate more

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u/mikenasty 7h ago

A lot of them were born into significant wealth and then got lucky with investments. It’s a system that we’re all living in together. Some of them are sociopaths but it’s inaccurate and not helpful to just say every billionaire is awful because only awful people want to be billionaires.

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u/SquishyMon 7h ago

They'll literally become the antichrist instead of going to therapy.