It’s pretty simple for me. He was an early supporter of Trump, his acolyte is the VP and bears some responsibility for for the actions of the admin. His company has been enabling ICE’s campaign of terror on a technological basis. His company’s targeting platform has been a key part of the military action in Iran.
Aside from that though, he and musk believe that gov’t bureaucracy should not stymie the progress that technology leaders could make with less regulation. Given what the Trump admission administration has done and that they both continue to support them is my primary issue. And they seem to wholly support the campaign of misinformation that comes out of them as well, which to me is the most toxic aspect of our modern political landscape.
Well Look, if the argument is purely Rich guy X promotes political party or x ideology I disagree with, can totally relate there m8, i have a sincere dislike for Soros and his "banking activities" for that reason...
As for kafkaésq bureaucracies, yes I agree with Musk/Thiel on that, you can have some oversight like the environmental/pollution or risk part when say, developing a thorium reactor but it should not go the point where everything is defacto bureacratized to death..which is what is nearly the case in Nl where I live, trust me, you don't want that.
The engagement with mis or more apt "selective" information i would argue is indeed a sign that we live in a time of post-truth but totally not reserved solely to one side, Case in point. you wrote:
I don’t know, man, if I was a tech billionaire, I’d spend my money on education and making the world a better place. Seems like once your pile of money gets big enough concerns of the average person seem to be less important than making that pile of money bigger.
He does m8
Whoever told you/wherever did you get the idea he was just scrootching piles of cash in vault somewhere? which isn't even remotely how his financial worth is measured but hey ho..
Between Musk and Thiel (and Musk a hell of a lot more then the latter) :
- A combined half a billion was spend in charity projects in education, scolarships, research and healthcare...
- Neuralink literally makes disabled people walk again and blind people see for the first time...
- not one person has done more to single handily confront climate change in the field of EV and green solar energy transition then Musk and his Solarcity/Tesla Teslaenergy companies,
- SpaceX is already putting solutions in place for the data centre problem and their environmental impact, (water, energy etc.) not to mention reliable global fast internet,
- A country was defacto saved/prevented from being annexed thanks too said starlink before a government contract was even signed, so that was his own money he lost for a good cause there...
- hundreds of thousands of direct jobs and even more support or supply chain companies and their families supported..
and last but not least a whopping 11 billion (!) record in federal tax money, of which both parties and their respective offices, so Dems and Reps/trump alike, only spend a rough 200 million on education.
yes, let the bureaucrats have more power...that'll make the world a better place, no thanks.
Honestly, I would, when it comes to making the world better, rather have 1 musk, then a thousand cloth-brained politicians (who all don't contribute a single tax dollar, let alone create wealth)
but thats me
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