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Written by Oliver Reichenstein on 2025-01-11 at 07:57

In another pseudo intellectual rambling billionaire investor Peter Thiel claims that high house prices, a broken education system, and the lack of innovation are the “deepest questions.”

1. Homes are investor assets rather than places to live.

2. Higher education has become a gatekeeping tool for the ultra-rich, preserving privilege under the guise of meritocracy.

3. When education prioritizes market needs over imagination and intelligence, innovation inevitably dies.

https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105

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Written by Oliver Reichenstein on 2025-01-11 at 08:19

What makes the article truly deranged isn’t just framing conspiracy theories around JFK or Covid-19 politics as the biggest secrets of our time—it’s the cheap etymology trick of redefining apocalypse, a religious term, as the “unveiling of truth,” and then doubling down on this religious framing to cast Trump as some kind of Messiah. It’s utterly, completely nuts.

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Written by Rado on 2025-01-11 at 08:08

@reichenstein All true and sound, the hard question is How do we get out of this... and can we even do it, or just have to wait for things to implode before we can rebuild something better 🤨

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Written by Oliver Reichenstein on 2025-01-11 at 10:48

@notimefortv I have no idea. He seems to march right straight towards world war. I don't want to imagine the world after a next world war.

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Written by Kit Paul on 2025-01-12 at 09:20

@reichenstein If conspiracies are widespread in American politics, business, and science, his expectations are justified. If conspiracies are rarely real, his “great unveiling” is delusional, and seeking conspiracy where none exists is toxic and deranged. Occam's Razor suggests that we should favor the latter.

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