The Giving Pledge’s numbers, reported Sunday by the New York Times, trace a steady decline. In its first five years, 113 families signed the Pledge. Then 72 over the next five, 43 in the five after that, and just four in all of 2024. The roster includes Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Elon Musk — some of the most powerful people in the world, and yet, in Peter Thiel’s words to the Times, it is a club that’s “really run out of energy . . .I don’t know if the branding is outright negative,” Thiel told the outlet, “but it feels way less important for people to join.”
I wonder what (or who) else this roster of billionaires all have in common? 🤔
Also: Peter Thiel: Why Monopolies Are a Good Thing
Those seem to be two conflicting ideas… It’s almost like this guy has no fucking clue what he’s talking about, but people keep listening to him and amplifying his bullshit because he’s part of some club that signals anytime he opens his mouth important things are being said…
“I have a law degree from Stanford.” & “Academic elites are destroying society.”
“My dream was always to be nominated to the supreme court, but they rejected me when I applied for a clerkship.” & “I believe traditional government institutions must be toppled.”
“I fear regulations of technology will lead to a single one world authoritarian government.” & “I plan to use my monopoly to create and control that one world authoritarian government, but it’s different because it’s a private business and nobody but me and my pedophile friends had any say in it taking control.”
Or if you just want it all boiled down into Thiel’s greatest hit:.“I’ve come to believe that democracy and freedom are incompatible.”