I'm curious to what others think about some of the underlying themes of these emails. To be blunt, I think a lot of the comments along the lines of "lol! Mark t

I'm curious to what others think about some of the underlying themes of these emails. To be blunt, I think a lot of the comments along the lines of "lol! Mark think he speaks for Millennials!" or "Does Mark really think he's that famous" are lazy don't really add anything insightful or interesting. Yeah yeah, I love dunking on Mark (or Peter Thiel for that matter) as much as anyone, and we all know it's popular and gets lots of upvotes. All that said, I think there were some really interesting underlying themes and tidbits in these emails: 1. The general theme of "Boomers have been hanging on to the economy with an iron grip and instituting policies that deliberately transfer wealth from younger generations to the Boomers" is not exactly news but was interesting to me to see how these people discussed it. 2. I know it's easy to hate Zuckerberg or Thiel, but I certainly thought Thiel in particular put a lot of issues in clear, insightful terms, e.g. "I would be the last person to advocate for socialism. But when 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why. And, from the perspective of a broken generational compact, there seems to be a pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that when one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time and/or find it very hard to start accumulating capital in the form of real estate; and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it." 3. I felt the overall theme of these emails was one that I hadn't quite thought much about before and was very interesting: namely, in generations past, the transfer of economic and political power has happened gradually. But in this case, he Boomers have held onto power so effectively that when the transition happens in the later 20s that it will be much more abrupt. Made me think about what effects this abrupt transition will have on me personally. 4. This is somewhat more random, but as someone (a Gen-X) who is generally a big fan of Pete Buttigieg, this tidbit was pretty thought-provoking for me, "You can think of Pete Buttigieg as a (political) example of what Mark absolutely should not be: Buttigieg is very popular with older Baby Boomer voters and shockingly unpopular with Millennial voters of his age and younger. Buttigieg's basic message is that the system is working reasonably well and this is precisely why younger voters do not like him — he is the sort of super annoying Millennial who tells the Boomers what they want to hear and thereby glosses over the many ways in which the generational compact in our society has been badly broken." Anyway, all-in-all thought there was interesting stuff here once you get beyond the "Zuckerberg/Meta/Thiel sucks" knee-jerk response.