[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.