Comment by jprd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jprd | Hacker News Reader

Why are we still holding dude up? He found loopholes and took advantage of them? He gave "free money" to a ton of smart people so they would owe him and lean into HIS ideals?

He is actively trying to undermine democracy, full stop. Apartheid for poor people. I cannot imagine how that behavior can be overlooked because he was craven enough to turn his IRA into a tax shelter? This is a thing we want to venerate?

"I found a bug in the system, being a black hat, I made sure to profiteer off of it rather than try to correct the bug and help others. This mentality married well with that of NSA, and so Palantir.

Do I have to spell out where I'm going with all this people?

/Thiel out."

This is a human who wants to extract all he can while he lives, extending his life if possible, and leaving nothing behind but his name on scores of buildings where ethics were valued less than an endowment.

Not sure how that's a loophole. I'd love to have done as well as him with my IRA. Should he just aim for the mean return?

Sheeeeet - there's no way I wouldn't absolutely love the same kind of returns as Thiel! To do so however, is to knowingly treat your fellow citizenry and all other humans as dirty peasants.

As a hyper wealthy (on spreadsheet) human, having captured such wealth, he just couldn't resist leveraging those resources to find all the defects in the system. Having now found quite a few, instead of alerting the body able to correct such bugs, you decide to just change your grades and those of your friends instead. Then, instead of being chill like Ferris, you decide to weaponize your knowledge and expertise to get all the people at school replaced with bitter, angry incompetents so it all goes down in flames.

You can try and rationalize, or maybe even moralize it somehow, but dude found a loophole in a system meant for people that work everyday jobs and exploited it for his personal advantage.

Now, he's using his vast wealth to actively undermine the system that made it possible for him to somehow achieve such an outsized personal wealth to more closely fit his personal world view.

I didn't even bring up that time he coldly destroyed Gawker (not defending them!) from the shadows. Does that seem like an forthright individual to you?

Srsly, fuck that guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV11DW-Rako

So you're angry about his roth 401, or something? This seems like a stance that came out some podcast...

Palantir is tanking ever since Trump left the building, so Thiel is mostly just having a anxiety attack.

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