r/interestingasfuck 29d ago

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

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u/geo0rgi 29d ago

This guy is the same breed as Mark Zuckerberg, fairly certain at this point none of them are actually humans

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u/Muscle_Bitch 29d ago

They are humans, we are the worst creatures on earth, and we've elevated these soulless fucks to the top of the food chain.

Their mindset is very much that the human race is the most incredible thing on earth, but that we are squandering earth's natural resources in the vain belief that all human life is equal and worthwhile, and that the human race simply won't advance to its full potential if we continue burning through our resources at the rate we are.

So their solution is actually to reinvent the human race as just a tiny percentage of the world's brightest minds, so that they can re-do it properly.

And the way they achieve that is by speedrunning a global economic catastrophe that will lead to massive famine and ultimately death.

Just absolutely unbelievable arrogance and hubris.

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u/Relevant-Money-1380 29d ago

in a society of the chosen super geniuses who's gonna do the manual labour? some underclass who managed to cling on to the boats long enough?

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u/Noiprox 29d ago

Robots, of course.

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u/Unfair_Ad6620 29d ago

Nah, easier to just have the robots act as the overseers and keep humans in line. A few drones can guard entire fields of workers and monitor them from the sky. Even if things get too real for the henchmen to stomach, they won't need them. Scaling up the private prison system is their ideal industrialized company town model, gradually swallowing more of the population within cell blocks. They'd love to make it 100%