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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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