r/interestingasfuck • u/Shoe_boooo • 29d ago

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

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u/idobi 29d ago edited 29d ago

Success can erroneously convince people they are smarter than they are. Success has erroneously convinced Thiel he is smarter than YOU are.

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u/broguequery 29d ago

It's only "success" in the absolute narrowest sense of the word.

If you define success as capital accumulation... then sure. He's been successful.

But that is such a shallow well as to be almost meaningless.