Peter Thiel: Wokeness Is Like Wahhabism

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[–]jagworms 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, people tend to get it all twisted once they become billionaires. They think that now they're smart enough to impose their vision of the future onto humanity.

[–]RedEyedWarriorIndependent 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

An a world with only free markets, it would not be possible for anyone to be a billionaire.

[–]jagworms 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's correct. They can only do this because of corporate welfare and by bribing the gov't to pick winners and losers and protect the quasi-monopolies that dominate nearly every industry.

[–]RedEyedWarriorIndependent 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Somebody told me that this is what fascism is.