I sometimes think there should be a completion state to capitalism.

When you reach an arbitrary score, like $100 million, you get presented with a cup that says ‘congratulations, you won capitalism’ and are given the choice of either playing again from the start but this time on hard mode (no emerald mine or parents that are friends with the IBM chairman this time), or keeping your winnings on the condition that you and your family fuck off somewhere and are never seen or heard of again.

Seriously though, that billionaires can exist, that so much power and wealth can be concentrated in the hands of so few while so many have nothing is utterly repugnant.

There’s nothing Christian about what Thiel is talking about here, even if he does wrap it up in the bible.

Whether you believe in Christianity or not, his views are deeply, deeply heretical. He’s so far out of pocket he’s in a completely different pair of trousers.

Not agreeing as a society that money == speech would be a good start.

Greta Thunberg, according to Thiel (seriously).

Behind the Bastards did a good two-parter on Thiel's lectures. He sounds dangerously insane.

It'd be bad enough if he was just some random crank, but the fact he's got the level of power and influence needed to actually make his beliefs happen makes it exponentially worse.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtR7ny9TuCY

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXhyx-vVG_Y