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I have a slightly different take than this. Thiel in particular strikes me as insecure and not as bright as he thinks he is.
He's worth somewhere around $3-$4 billion. A huge number in absolute terms, but for someone who believes net worth = human worth, he's a 3 and the top score is close to 100, or 200 if you count people like Putin.
I think the dark enlightenment movement is for people who think they should be worth more but are being held back by things like democracy and enlightenment principles.
So it's not that it's nice to be on top. It's that he's an insecure loser in his own mind and he blames other people rather than himself.
So basically like Trump or any white supremacist living in the American South. Or Hitler.
You know, the most dangerous kind of people.
Comment by [deleted] at 05/10/2018 at 15:25 UTC
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I think this could be a second wave of the trust movement at the turn of the 20th century. Back then, monopolists like Rockefeller and Carnegie thought that competition was wasteful bc companies had to spend effort competing instead of improving products/service. It’s awful logic, and they were smart men so I’m sure they knew they were spouting bullshit.
There’s a saying in SV that you don’t play in the field, you play *for* the field. Tech companies often feel that since they created a market, they get to own it. There’s some validity to that, but not to the extent to justify the anticompetitive actions by firms like Microsoft in the late 90s/early 2000s.
It’s really easy to see thru their bullshit.
Comment by [deleted] at 05/10/2018 at 15:52 UTC
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