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It's disturbing that HNers are lapping up the author's implication (Thiel has NZ citizenship as an 'escape plan') without any support being needed.
by ygaf 10y ago
It's disturbing that HNers are lapping up the author's implication (Thiel has NZ citizenship as an 'escape plan') without any support being needed.
- st3v3r 10y agoBecause it's pretty clear that's why it is? Otherwise why get it, and why not renounce his US Citizenship after getting it?
- ygaf 10y ago>Because it's pretty clear that's why it is? It really isn't. The onus is on you to explain why it's so clearly an escape plan, when even the article acknowledges both that NZ is a tax haven and that Thiel gained citizenship before the election. Why should he throw US citizenship away? Dual citizenship is cool.
- neilk 10y agoSam Altman said that Thiel's estate in NZ is his escape plan, in the event of biowarfare or some other disaster. So it seems likely that Thiel has the place prepared in some way for long-term survival. We don't know what disasters Thiel thinks are likely, though. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-does-peter-thiel-have-new-zealand-citizenship http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/why-does-peter-thiel-...