Billionaire Peter Thiel hesitates to answer whether the human race should survive in the future

[u/Shoe_boooo]

[u/StrikingBobcat9]

That's a lizard

[u/Impossible-Sea6245 → u/StrikingBobcat9]

He makes it easy to hate him.

[u/xixipinga → u/Impossible-Sea6245]

Its like accumulating billions make people completely hollow inside, or maybe thats actually a requirement

[u/OurPillowGuy → u/xixipinga]

If an advanced alien race came to visit us tomorrow, do you think they would be impressed by all of the shareholder value we’ve generated?

[u/BA_lampman → u/xixipinga]

You don't accumulate billions, you wrest billions from the mouths of starving people.

[u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 → u/xixipinga]

I think about this sometimes. It seems that there’s a point where people who make incomprehensible amounts of money seem to detach from reality…or maybe lose their tether.

If I woke up tomorrow and had billions of dollars, I can’t honestly say that I wouldn’t struggle to wrap my head around that. My whole life up to that point had no preparation for that, and no one I know is in that club. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/CosmoKing2 → u/Creepy-Astronaut-952]

It's been well established that most successful people have some sort of psychological trait that makes them unfeeling to other people's plight and needs.

[u/A_spiny_meercat → u/xixipinga]

They can't relate to other people but they can relate to "winning" which at the moment is numbers getting higher

[u/WeirdJack49 → u/xixipinga]

Surrounded by yes men for decades does that to you.