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Peter Thiel (yes that Peter Theil) will give a four-lecture presentation on The Antichrist
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Imagine I give you $100,000 today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. How long until you get tired of getting $100,000 each day?
After only a few days, most people's financial problems would be solved. After ten days, you will have received 1 million dollars. After a few months, you will have been able to purchase anything you've ever dreamed of.
How long, then, until money is meaningless to you?
Do you know how long it takes to have received 1 billion dollars?
27.4 years.
27.4 years of receiving $100,000 every day. A billion dollars is 10,000 $100,000s.
Some people have hundreds of billions of dollars. It is an astronomical number.
You can't imagine how much that amount of money changes a person. You will absolutely lose your mind and yourself.
No one should ever even possess anywhere near that level of money. It's way too much power.
People conflate rich people with millionaires and casually lump billionaires in with that group.
They are not the same. Billionaires are shells of humans, filled with the putrid sludge of a soul completely consumed by greed.
Do not listen to them. Do not believe them. They only tell you things they want you to believe. They will take everything from you, including your life.
it's a brainwashing seminar.
Yup, I don't give a shit about the multi millionaire orthodontist who co-owns his practice, has a summer home and a boat and some sports cars. Heck a lot of small farmers are multi millionaires on paper.
I do care about the people who have enough expendable cash that they can throw 10M at a political endeavor without batting an eye.
They have left us with only one solution to the billionaire problem. And they're trying to make that difficult too, with round-the-clock security. But everyone is vulnerable for a moment here or there.
Last night I chatted with my politically moderate neighbor, who is now considering leaving the country, and cheered Luigi, and a bunch of other shit that would have been "far left" a while ago, but I think is now permeating into the middle too.
polarization of the populace works in both directions, the left only lags a bit behind because they actually like stuff like due process and human rights.