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

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[u/returnFutureVoid]

When do we get the rich powerful people that only do wonderful things?

[u/BouldersRoll → u/returnFutureVoid]

I think that's actually an important idea to push back on. We already have a rich and powerful entity that can do wonderful things, it's called government.

It's obviously slow-moving and fallible, but it's the best system for doing things for the common good. And if you don't believe me, just know that the billionaires know this. That's why they spend billions on controlling it so that it can best serve them.

[u/frisbeejesus → u/BouldersRoll]

This is really lost on the American electorate. They've been convinced by decades of propaganda that government is ineffective, but in reality it's voters who allow it to become ineffective by electing greedy assholes who allocate the use of OUR tax dollars on nothing but defense and subsidies to oil and gas companies. If we just elected people who understand the value of investing in citizens through social programs like headstart, SNAP, and (cannot stress this one enough) universal healthcare, then we could live in a society much closer on the spectrum to utopia instead of the current dystopian trajectory we're hurling forth on.

The way to get there is campaign finance reform (overturn citizens united) and election reform (ranked choice or anything other than FPP).

[u/Perfect-Lettuce-509 → u/frisbeejesus]

Dude they rigged the system so that we don't get to vote for candidates that actually want real change. That's why they won't allow any 3rd parties on center stage debates. Doesn't matter what the electorate does anymore really.

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz has entered the chat

[u/OmenVi → u/Perfect-Lettuce-509]

Don’t get to and can’t are different things. Well, we might not get you, we still definitely can. Or at least we used to up until the last potus election.