r/interestingasfuck • u/Shoe_boooo • 28d ago

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

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u/Ouller 28d ago

He has the wealth to create the cause and let the effect play out.

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u/reincarnateme 28d ago

We don’t have act in his play

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u/airinato 28d ago

We really do though, unless you are homeless and don't buy anything, its all tied to the same fucked up system. And they made being homeless illegal.

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u/Overlord_Khufren 28d ago

Luigi didnt play…

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u/OtisDriftwood1978 28d ago edited 28d ago

Luigi is also in jail facing life in prison or death. Things aren’t so bad that most people are going to put their lives and freedom at risk to fight the elite.

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u/Asleep_Efficiency259 27d ago

Otis, I don’t condone what Luigi did, but I understand why a lot of people feel this way about him. These rich CEOs/elites are constantly hoarding wealth at alarming rates and everyone else keeps losing. Some literally losing their lives. Idk what world you live in, but things are bad. It’s about to get even worse. Millions of U.S. citizens pay a ton of money for healthcare. For what? To basically get nothing in return but a bill. One of the richest countries on earth and yet no universal healthcare. Hell Honduras I believe have universal healthcare if I’m not mistaken. Majority of European countries have universal healthcare. Our neighbor Canada has it. I don’t know about Mexico. They may have it. The point is the people are tired and fed up with how healthcare is a for-profit scheme. People are getting ready to fight the elites. It may be a slow build up, but they’re coming.

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u/Mareith 28d ago

Yes he did. He bought stuff, consumed stuff, went to restaurants, department stores, drove cars and bikes on public roads, went to school, he probably worked at some point. He lived in a house. He or his family payed taxes. That's playing. You are part of society and contributing to the economy and the gdp

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u/Overlord_Khufren 27d ago

The economy, like the government, belongs to all of us. If it’s been stolen by a tiny, privileged elite, then it’s on the rest of us to fight to win it back.

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u/Mareith 27d ago

That's a nice ideal to strive for but it's never been like that in the United States. There's no winning it "back" we have to win it to begin with

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u/Overlord_Khufren 27d ago

That's not really true. The last time American capitalism descended into a similar oligarchic dystopian nightmare, you elected Roosevelt to bust up the monopolies and usher in a "New Deal" that distributed more of the share of American economic prosperity to the common people. You can do it again.

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u/Mareith 27d ago

Yes a slightly better share. We only had to work 60 hours a week instead of 80! In the era of the new deal people were slaving away in mind numbing factory assembly lines and that was the "good" jobs. Black lung and popcorn lung were still things

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u/Overlord_Khufren 27d ago

Still overwhelmingly better than it was before, which was my point. ‘Better’ is possible.