[laweijfmvo]

  “This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.”

I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

[frm88]

I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’

In an interview with Joe Rogan on YouTube, Peter Thiel said that if people want roads, they should come together and build them or pay for them to be built.

https://youtu.be/klRb0_BAX9g?si=6GPB2Edq12Xzl3AY

It's 3.5 hours and I can't give a timestamp where exactly he said that and I really, really don't want to watch that again, so here's the transcript if you want to search: https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/the-joe-rogan-experience/21....

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> come together and build them or pay for them to be built

That's just taxes!

[rbanffy]

That is what we used to call a government. We pool together, choose who’ll manage the project, and fund it.

[port11]

If any corporation wants a bailout, it should… I don’t know, actually. In their model, it should simply go bankrupt? Okay, let’s do that.

[burnerRhodov3]

yes, i'm sure thiel would be against bailouts. but palintir got their start spying, so they know the wierd shit the govs want them to build, and hapilly will build for a price.

[bryanlarsen]

Billionaires don't need roads, hospitals and schools for their own family.

What they do need is a large marketplace of wealthy customers to buy their products, a large pool of educated people to choose their employees from, safe global transportation, a trust based economy where contracts can be relied on, where the fallback of using the court system is reliable enough that courts or extra judicial means are very rarely needed.

IOW billionaires need modern Western society far more than modern society needs them.

[ndsipa_pomu]

They're basically the parasite class

[insane_dreamer]

The irony that Palantir's primary source of income is ... taxes. So clearly Thiel likes taxes, he just doesn't want rich people paying them.

[halJordan]

Strictly speaking I think palantir's income comes from borrowed money, but who's counting dollars lol not the people in charge

[culi]

Yup corporations that don't think they should pay taxes are entitled. You didn't school the populace, build the roads, provide natural disaster relief, etc to make your company possible in the first place.

[brador]

Taxes also pay for pol and mil that keep people, including them, safe. Capitalist libertarians like to not think about that part.