A human’s humanity is inversely proportional to the amount of money they have. After a billion, you stop being human and turn into a lizard person. We are quickly approaching the day when a lizard person will evolve into something even weirder once they hit a trillion.
A second time.
The first time was stealing from everybody to become billionaires in the first place.
Thiel has worried that Western civilization had entered a period of long-term stagnation in the 1970s which will continue unless there is a radical shake-up. This stagnation has many dimensions: lower economic growth, fewer world-changing scientific discoveries, and a general cultural malaise.
Imagine looking back at the proud of time where there was literally the most advances in the wildest technology and thinking it’s stagnation. It was from a time period where people remembered refrigeration as new and exciting to the time where your phone has more computing power than the ones that put people on the moon, and it’s in your freaking pocket, and say that technology stagnated.
As for the lower economic growth and the “stagnating” culture, that’s squarely on the shoulders of corporations, and therefore, billionaires.
man who hoarded and centralized wealth from software companies concerned about decay of entrepreneurship
Steps to become a billionaire:
- Abandon humanity
- Step-on children’s smiles
- Fund a feasibility study on turning poor into fuel
- Second study to prove those idiots in the first study wrong
- Replace gym equipment in second home with dogs you can kick and hit for exercise. The dogs must be trained service animals in active service to people who need them. You bankrupt those people at great personal expense and then you buy their dogs for pennies.
- Lunch
- Become billionaire
- Take cool pictures with swords. Don’t show nobody.
- Abandon humanity
- Something kardashian related
They never had any humanity to begin with. It is the only way to become a Billionaire.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
That’s too generous.
I think they already do, hence the private islands and Bond villain style lairs.
That’s because, and I’ll speak loudly for those in the back, THEY DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.
Hard to argue with that actually. I’m going to go with they’re some terrible type of worm, slug, or parasite rather than human beings.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/126076-and-for-an-instant-she-stared-directly-into-those-soft
Like the torment Nexus tweet, I feel like some rich idiots read stuff like that and think it’s a good idea.
Maybe it is required to be inhumane to be a billionaire?
If so, then
Maybe it is required to be inhumane to
bea billionaire
Then maybe we should start relieving them of theirs
Luigi
as a german I am very sorry to the world for Peter Thiel, Trumps bloodline, Hitler and a shit ton more. We are bad exporters as it turns out
Sorry mate, this “money” thing can only be owned by humans. See, that dog over there, that chair, that building, or that chatbot over yonder, they can’t own anything, because they’re not human. If you are not part of humanity, you can’t own human IOU credits. So, have fun at the island, we’ll check in on you in October.
