[mouse_]

> In a now-viral 2020 email, the Silicon Valley billionaire predicted the rise of socialism. Today he tells The Free Press how he knew.

bro we are being factory farmed

what kind of ivy tower in a bubble under a rock do you have to live in to not see that?

Dude scrolled Twitter one time for like 15 minutes and discovered what everyone else already knows, so he's some sort of Nostradamus?

[toomuchtodo]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

- Upton Sinclair

What fixes this? Wages going up, taxes going up, benefits for the wealthy going down; is Thiel going to argue for this? Unlikely. When you're wealthy, all that is left is to chase status and attention. They are not attempting to solve these problems, based on evidence and observations.

How the US is destroying young people’s future - Scott Galloway - https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destr...

(contrast to good people like Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, quietly performing philanthropy with tens of billions of dollars while their ex partners keep chasing clout and status)