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Who cares what people like Tim Ferris and Peter Thiel think? These guys get their ideas published, and linked to and shared left, right and center, so is it po
by supercanuck 9y ago
Who cares what people like Tim Ferris and Peter Thiel think?
These guys get their ideas published, and linked to and shared left, right and center, so is it possible, that maybe their political ideas suck?
Lack of exposure is not the issue, so what is? Maybe their ideas are just.. stay with me here... bad?
- rdiddly 9y agoI'd stop short of knowing or caring whether their respective ideas suck or not, because getting back to the first point, it's really not so all-fired, gull-darned important what a guy thinks who's being quoted mainly because he's rich (or some other variant of a cult of personality). Take me, add a billion dollars, and boom: instant quotable thought-leader and visionary whose every tantrum and brain-fart is broadcast for all. Elon Musk goes in that box as well. Besides which, you can move wherever you want. It's not like you have to turn in your Silicon Valley membership card and secret key. And there's a big world out there. Especially if you're rich. Just move, don't try to make a "statement."
- qaq 9y agoYou honestly think it's purely based on money? You read many quotes from Rob Walton or Jacqueline Mars?
- rdiddly 9y agoI explicitly said "or some other variant of a cult of personality." But being rich is enough. Some billionaires choose to be quiet, but if tomorrow they decide to become "vocal proponents" of something or other, and make use of their prerogative to be quoted, the outlets will absolutely carry it, knowing the clicks will follow.