A billionaire complaining about a lack of freedom is so ridiculous. You have more freedom than almost anyone else on Earth. You don't want more freedom, you just want other people to have less.
No no. They want to CONTROL the rest of the world. Because the money is not the goal, just the tool to get POWER and Control to fill their dark void where they suppose to have hearts.
True but I dont think they even have any idea what normal people go through, they just get upset with a system that is somehow holding them back from becoming even more powerful and somehow think that the average person experiences these same type of fences that stop them from becoming supreme overlords and think they apply to the average human on Earth. These fences have been put in place over a long time to stop the ultra wealthy from ruling just because they are rich, maybe idk. These rich people more then often just need a swift kick to the balls and told to sit down.
Yes. Yet these guys actually believe their own spiel. That's the weird part. Gates, basically a monopolist who no doubt schooled and inspired the "libertarian" tech billionaires, did not hold these beliefs quite in the same way. He didn't extrapolate to individual freedom. So there's an evolution there. If you're some kid who finds Trump hard to look at or too clownish, too old, too obviously phony or weird, there'll be a Vance or Thiele or Musk or Zuckerburg running for president any time soon.
It would be based if a union was the dictatorship of the proletariat, but unfortunately it's just Musk sensing a possible loss of dictatorial power as a kind of oppression
Who said he actually believes any of the stuff he says? His job is to hopefully convince the less-than-intelligent crowd of fanboys and other folk that he is justified in his quest for ever-growing wealth. He will say anything that accomplished that goal, and say the opposite thing a few minutes later if he believes it will work better.
@@muscularclassrepresentativ5663 even if a union was the dictatorship of the proletariat, that idea itself has been discredited by both the USSR and the CCP as the bestway to achieve socialism. turn's out that concentrating power into the hand's of a small minority of people, is bad regardless of who it is. that's probably why your seeing muttering's of rank and file committees, worker's cooperative's and other decentralizing method's popping up on the left.
It’s like when a guy tweets that women don’t like sex, which he knows because no woman he’s slept with has had a good time. I’ve seen several versions of it and the dude always seems to think he’s making a point against women/feminism
Hah. I'd love to see M2F trans people swarm that app, saying "At last! A dating app that just allows me to be a she/woman, no questions asked!". I wouldn't wish the same for F2M people because, hey, they'd have to pay, and fuck giving that guy even one dime of their money.
Fun fact about Peter. He intends to live over the age of 100 through blood transfusions from the young. Calling him a blood sucking vampire is no longer a joke, just straight up reality.
Lab trials have shown that young blood revitalizes older mice. They become more spry and their mental alacrity increases. It's not actually a terrible idea, but also just getting rid of blood regularly cleans up the blood, also noted in other recent research concerning the amount of "forever chemicals" in modern people's blood.
I immediately came back, and am surprised it was JD Vance and not Blake Masters. Not that either of them are good for the country, just Masters is the perfect goon.
@@Asillyhobo it's JD vance because it was almost a symbolic move, they wanted to say "we can pick someone this useless and still win". But all that's looking like a bad choice now with the Harris nomination.
"I want the freedom to exploit as many people as possible without those pesky consumer rights protections. And since I've already won capitalism I view any policies that help others as being unnecessary and frankly, personally offensive to me. - Peter Thiel probably
Right? "Freedom" is never actually a consideration afforded to the exploited. It doesn't matter if said exploitation actually *limits* the freedom of the average person. They only want to dole total freedom out to the assholes who have already won in their zero-sum world.
@@Moondog66602 I wouldn't conflate any of this lot as having the same-same personality, drives and goals. They're like chalk and cheese. As for Thiel he's purely a psychopathic control freaking opportunist. Musk is an actual creative with ultra progressive altruism going on in the background. Bezos is an empire builder and Zuckerberg a scared kid wanting to disappear in his own world.
@@jeffp3999 gonna have to disagree with you pal. They're all the same, the details are trivial. There is plenty of information out there showing exactly who they all are, and quite a few are on this very channel. Do some research outside of your usual sources, get multiple view points, form your own opinion. They're all selfish, spoiled brats completely detached from the real world most people live in.
Right-wing libertarianism is such a great political philosophy it only took billionaires (like the Koch brothers) funding conservative think-tanks (like the John Birch Society) for decades to gain the sliver of popularity it has today. The book Dark Money by Jane Meyer talks about these billionaires and think-tanks in frustrating detail.
Fun fact: Thiel has recently hired the former Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, who had to resign because of very credible allegations of corruption and misuse of power and public funds just over a year ago. Kurz is a conservative and also an amoral careerist. They seem to be well-matched.
@@PawsOnTheBalcony lmao at calling your former head of state "Basti" Very fitting, always good to not hold those people in high esteem one way or another
Pretty sure Germany has done worst than Peter Thiel. 1932-1945 era comes to mind. I don’t remember exactly what happened but i heard it made the world mad.
I started writing a dystopian fantasy novel about tech CEOs becoming monarchs in 2017 and thought I was being super edgy and dystopian. This guy made it the main goal of his life.
No Jennifer, you were unfortunately being realistic and ahead of your time. Congrats on being a genius 👏 it's not hard to be one when the world is run by cartoon supervillains
If you want capitalist oligarchs ruling as god kings, try Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. The mc is a the cyber enhanced daughter and enforce for the family that rules the world in a council of oligarchs who kept their power post the collapse of civilization with climate change. It's great.
When you're so scared people will come after you that you strike first, making them actually Want to come after you... Rich people stripping the rights of the poor makes rich people enemies. (Living lavishly stupid lives is at worst annoying.)
I was just talking about Thiel with some friends after re-watching the Social Network. Guy's a creep and one of those 'quietly' dangerous people who have far too much power. Thanks Cody, you're a babe.
I was on a career track to actually working at Palantir. I had my top secret and a lot of other clearances. Palantir worked on some of the equipment and solutions we had when I was in intelligence in the Air Force. Obviously I can't say a lot, but I could have easily submerged my conscience into a vat of oil and gone to work for Thiel for probably over $100k+ a year STARTING and an easy cushy desk job while knowing more than most of the news media about what was going on in the world. I can go through their employees list and see people I interacted with in my job. Unfortunately in my work in counterinsurgency I sadly humanized our enemies in my brain and realized what we were doing was wrong so now I struggle with mental health issues and am homeless. Those of us veterans who realized we weren't protecting people, we were protecting politicians and interests. Sort of a weird life direction, you can go, right? Palantir, wealthy, with no ethics, or homeless, broke, with some self-respect left? I would just never change my choice. Never.
I hope you find housing and get to feel better. For what it’s worth, I think it really speaks for your character that you changed your actions when you realized you didn’t believe they’re right anymore; not everyone would do that and it’s very admirable imo. 🧡
Been through similar circumstances and the only reason I a not on the street is because I own my apartment that I bought many years ago before before the property boom. I used to have money to burn and now I just manage to survive, because no one will give the time of day if you challenge power in anyway, you are on your own. Instead of challenging war criminals, people will screw their children first and continue to vote for the horrible slugs, and we have the government we deserve
Know what? You seem like a good person. As a mom and teacher that’s literally my number one goal, to be and help cultivate Goodness. God bless you and ❤ from a random soft lady from NY.
I mean, you were in the Air Force, so it's not like you had any self-respect or ethics to begin with. Don't pat yourself on the back so hard. You might dislocate your shoulder or something.
'Get rich'. Some people's motive to work? Is it a bonus for people who do really well? If we try to fix it in any way at all, for sure they kick back about it.
@@vapx0075 this is assuming that doing well at your work guarantees you get rich. That's not how it works. Believing that meritocracy is real is bad for your brain
How would very large expensive projects, like a vehicle manufacturing plant or a mine ever get done outside the government without someone having money to pay for them? You're not making any sense. The rich needed to be taxed and regulated, but not made illegal. They have their uses, and like any chemical, the dose makes the poison. We have far too much inequality right now but until we are post scarcity and everyone has a personal 3d printer that makes anything you could ever need from dirt and air, we're still going to need SOME people with large amounts of capital to complete large endeavors. Look to literally ANY communist country to see how well the government making everything goes.
Gotta love how if you have money you can influence absolutely everything. Key to a free society indeed. Funny that Peter still doesnt feel "free" even though he literally has unlimited power
I am reminded of Jubal Harshaw in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' when he was explaining how hindering true wealth actually is. When you have more money than God you can't trust anyone, can't spend your money without a team of accountants to manage every transaction, and need to hire a personal army to ensure none of your loved ones get kidnapped for ransom. Not saying we should give their shitty behaviour a pass, just that being wealthy is not as freeing as people think. It's just a different type of cage.
@@RHCole Naw. That's an excuse. Because the wealthy possess the tools to no longer be so obscenely wealthy, but the poor don't have the tools to just suddenly not be so poor. If you grab onto a burning hot chicken nugget and keep crying about how hot it is *while you keep holding it* I'm going to get frustrated with your whining very quickly.
There is a reason why german TV show host Jan Böhmermann made an entire Bond-Villain like song to mock Thiel. "Right time to Thiel" is the title. It can be found on RU-vid.
Man literally named his private intelligence company Palantir. And you just know it was through self-identification with Saruman. I’d wager he does the ‘gentlemen, to evil’ toast as well. Edit: damnit of course Cody makes the same connection lol
@@RocLobo358 that's the upsetting dissonance, like you HAD TO read the books to make that references but you totally forgot (or decided to ignore) what Tolkien was denouncing...
51:35 "rich people, at least most of them, don't care how badly they destroy the world when they can just buy their way out of it." This should be a t-shirt
@@TheDanishGuyReviews if it’s a flat amount or set range, yes. Finland has made speeding fines proportional to the offender’s salary, leaving some wealthy drivers owing $100K for a single ticket! There’s basically zero chance the US plutocracy will ever implement something like that, of course 😾
@@alisaurus4224 Yeah, l guess there isn't. I found one of the better ways to describe USA through something l read recently: "Change the laws? We can't do that, it might upset a rich person!"
Glad to see he didn’t play the game and only read the history up to the part where rapture fell completely apart and no one could leave and Ryan is proven to be a hypocrite
So Thiel heard leftists say "capitalism and democracy are fundamentally incompatible" and while leftists say "so we need to get rid of capitalism", Thiel thought "so we need to get rid of democracy"
39:00 as a longtime Hungarian fan, I really can't thank you enough that you'll be covering us! It is extremely bleak here! Thanks for all you do, Cody and everyone working on the show. Can't wait to be faced with what everyone outside Hungary thinks of us.
All of sudden, in the middle of an episode, I realized and remembered how good and simply outstanding the humor and overall writing on this show IS . So glad and grateful to Universe I found your channel guys! now probably like 3 years ago.. Sending my love and respects!
Being one of the unfortunate people to know who Peter Thiel was before this video feels like a curse. But hey at least there's a handy dandy reference for me to show people whenever he comes up from now on.
Apologies if somebody already posted below but Thiel also bought his way into a New Zealand citizenship in 2011, which was rushed through in days, becoming NZ's third richest citizen at the same time. He's subsequently bought increasingly large swathes of land in the South Island and all of us here presume he's prepping for his own apocalypse. Because he doesn't live here. In fact he became made a citizen in a private ceremony in Santa Monica.
@@Grim_Beard Because she can't - he's a citizen and that's it. The local authority where he has huge plots of land have just rejected his plans to build what is essentially a compound but his citizenship isn't a visa - it can't be taken away apart from extreme circusmtances.
@@Grim_Beard Because you can't just remove citizenships for no reason. It's not as if he's done anything criminal, whether in NZ or elsewhere. And now the Nationals are in power, they'll more than welcome him with open arms.
Vance taking a hard Right turn after criticism of his film reminds me of a certain Austrian painter who took a hard Right turn after his art got criticised.
The funniest thing about Thiel’s (and his acolytes’) understanding of structures is that what they push for necessarily REJECTS the descriptive reality that makes silicon valley/vc what it is. Their views on what makes the best structure can be rebutted by what made them relevant in the first place
Ah, but you're missing one important part of the equation: they got theirs and don't want anybody else able to kick them off their own perch. Basically they want to set fire to every ladder behind them after they finish climbing them.
They're business types, not programmers, unlike Gates and some of the Silicon Valley elders who had some scientific flair (even if they created these new monsters). It seems the "disruptive" tech paradigm is hard to follow or bear for those with a real technical or scientific inclination.
@@grmpEqweer funny, given that there's nothing "conservative" about destroying establishments or traditions. I would argue that they're really just selfish pieces of s***.
I've always said the most impressive thing about Peter Thiel was that he knew enough rich people that he could raise one million dollars in the 90s (which is around 2 million today) to gamble with.
@@rmo9808 Don't see how this changes my point. The most impressive thing about Peter Thiel was he had a bunch of rich friends that he was able to get money from.
I'm not even from the US but these videos are enlightening either way. I hope i to some extent help keep the lights on without you selling your actual soul mr news man.
Same about being an overseas viewer. I think that it's important because US politics has influence on the rest of the world; there are, were and will be similarities and copycats in the politics of other countries, plus the US' overseas policies have huge affects.
@@SnakeMan448 we have our fair share of these weirdos entering politics in Canada, and some of them are starting to win elections. It's kind of scary. They're following the U.S. neo right playbook word for word.
During college I saw the book Zero to One by Thiel in syllabus reading lists and had it recommended by professors in class. I’m glad I never wasted my time reading it.
Ironically, I'm glad I did read it when I was younger and part of a startup. A lot of Thiel's ideas about monopolies and competition are eerily similar to Marx's analysis of the falling rate of profit, merely set in a pro-monopoly light, so I had an easier time moving to the left than I would have without exposure to Peter Thiel's framework.
Maybe they seem similar because they both describe a common behaviour pattern of human beings. The problem which seems to happen is when people have a fridge brilliance moment and start thinking that just because it happens a lot it must be the only true way that things should be. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem [RIP Douglas Adams, you are sorely missed!]
@@deadmeme8011 Karl Marx was the world's foremost expert on capitalism. His economic assertions are just extrapolations of basic economic principles. In that sense, communism is just the natural conclusion of a perfectly functioning capitalist system. It's his philosophies on how we should behave knowing these conclusions that are questionable.
@@Backinblackbunny009 I dunno...if you have to go through a state of dictatorship (the proletarian one, in Marx's case) before getting to the "perfect society", I think there might be a DEEP flaw in your reasoning
The shame in a if you don’t know it’s his episode you just see PayPal based global threat #2, assume that’s not this weeks priority and then go watch Hillbilly Elegy? It’s not until Thiel and Trump start to discuss the future that people will find their way back here and say, I wish I had seen this earlier.
somewhat unrelated but connected via thiel: he rented out bran castle (aka “dracula’s castle”) in romania a couple days ago for a halloween party. while he and his partygoers were in the country flying between towns in helicopters, romanian national media was reporting for days that elon musk had actually rented the castle and was throwing the party, not thiel. ultimately, this turned out to be a rumor spread and believed widely, despite no evidence that elon was ever involved. many romanian people were celebrating elon being in the country and gathered outside of restaurants and the castle, when they believed he was present. truly embarrassing stuff, specifically for all of the news media that reported matter-of-factly elon had rented the castle. interestingly, gay marriage is illegal in romania, and i guarantee all of the wannabe serfs celebrating what they believed was elon’s presence would be repulsed to find out the wealthy man they were hoping to see is actually gay. a lot of romanian news only referred to his husband as his partner. anyways, fuck thiel.
We should change Thanksgiving Make it about Preparing a Meal around the most Destructive or Overly Populated Animal In the US at that time. So Now it would be in my opinion a Boar. And All of the US coming together to Eat the Most overpowered Animal of that Year sounds like one of the most MURICA! Things I have ever heard of.
Thiel is a purely an opportunist, similar to Trump, don't make the mistake, like they do here, of lumping these psychopaths into the same boat as Nerds generally.
As a Chaotic Good Nerd I have to point out that the palantiri were initially meant to be a simple means of communication before they got stolen and corrupted by an evil god with near unlimited power. Life imitates Art and I Do Not Like It
I was at a conference that Thiel spoke at, & I think the wildest thing he talked about was creating floating city of suspended in the ocean docks & houseboats. This was his example of his libertarian goal, since there would be no government in international waters
I dunno why libertarians be seasteading, but they must have a deep-seated urge to experience a miserable demise at sea. Like...every project either implodes due to extremely basic considerations like waste disposal, ignoring the sovereignty of nearby island nations, or just straight-up being a scam to raise funds.
I'm never sure whether to watch on Patreon or watch on RU-vid because I want more of that JUICY content but also Wednesday releases make the week better
Hot take: Elon Musk is actually amazingly useful because he makes people wonder whether capitalism really works when it consistently makes obviously stupid people very rich. Him being so very vocal is the biggest gift to mankind I can imagine.
Truly whatever manscaped paid Cody for that ad read, they should at least double it. There is no way they expected a read that hilarious with ball ventriloquism
It's ridiculous how relevant this video is in 2024... Touches on the origin of some of the awful Project 2025 ideas, and Cody even calls Trump weird lol
Takes some major cojones for someone to basically say "Between the party that wants to protect my money and the one that wants to protect my life, I choose the former."
