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Competition and ownership is natural and keeps life interesting! Not sure Star Wars is a great example of capitalism though.

• maxander 10y ago
  You know, we might really prefer to keep life interesting through art and science and building a giant spaceship to go exploring the galaxy. :D To be fair to Thiel, though, there's not really the implication that he prefers Star Wars as a "possible kind of future", but just that he prefers it as media. It's also pretty clear that he hasn't seen either one in quite some time.
  • EdSharkey 10y ago
    > You know, we might really prefer to keep life interesting through art and science and building a giant spaceship to go exploring the galaxy. :D No, I don't know! I will add that perhaps the notion of a spacefaring earth with a functional, yet voluntary(?) participation economy, a peaceful one-world government, AND free/happy peoples seems like an impossible hippie-era fantasy to Thiel. Perhaps we can take clues from world history and judge whether his skepticism is reasonable.
  • civilian 10y ago
    Yeah. I interpreted the Star Trek / Star Wars preference more as what he enjoys. And I think that we prefer the media where the rules inside the world make sense. It's the reason why guys don't like romantic comedies-- the structure of that universe makes no sense to them.