Thiel compared California liberalism to Saudi Arabian Wahabbism — but it was sort of a compliment

  • @mhague
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    6726 days ago

    Billionaires don’t live in nations. They don’t know what it means to actually live somewhere, their mental state is so warped. The whole world is their playground.

    He’s spouting propaganda, plain and simple.

    • @captainlezbian
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      425 days ago

      Yeah national borders have always existed to contain the poor and control flow of the middle class

      • @[email protected]
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        225 days ago

        National boundaries weren’t as strict for the working class until around WWII, though it obviously varies by region. It’s more attached to nationalism, the ability of nation states to influence “their people” who moved to other countries to engage in sabotage campaigns and the paranoia over this kind of activity that followed this.

        One of the requirements of a free market capitalist system is free mobility of labour. So it’s not really a class thing, it’s a nationalistic thing.

        I mean if I’m an evil businessman, why would I want to limit the number of people competing to get a job?