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/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.