I think that concentrating too much wealth / power into a person’s hands affects their mental health. The stuff billionaires focus on behind closed doors would be considered psychosis in a homeless person, but they articulate it on fancy stages and suddenly it’s normalized. Power and money control needs to be as decentralized as possible. Even if it means things move slower, it’s better than unilateral power in the hands of a small group of malignant narcissists surrounded by sycophants.
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I think that concentrating too much wealth / power into a person’s hands affects their mental health.
I think cause and effect are exactly opposite here: you have to be exceptionally, sociopathically greedy to want to become that rich, and then work towards it. Imagine all the actively harmful and antisocial decisions each billionaire has to make to increase their wealth. I believe most people just aren't cut out for it.
But of course wealth/power then serves as an amplifier.
It's definitely this. The Venn diagram between psychopaths and billionaires is a circle. Hell it's almost a circle just with CEOs in general.
The lack of empathy is a massive advantage to operating in the corporate world.
I'm not sure, I think money does corrupt all but the steeliest of hearts. Right now I wish I made a little more so we could accomplish several goals we want. Once those are done, there are loftier long-term goals! Like many, I doubt I'll ever be satisfied with my income, because I'm ambitious in the rest of my life. If I won a million dollars, I like to think I'd be satisfied because I could get those things done, although I'd still have to work. But... at that point I'd want more, so I could retire early and have more time to spend on the rest of my life. Now if somehow I got that much money - I like to think I'd be satisfied. But we can see time and again how that doesn't happen. There'd be something else just out of reach. Our capability to want is near endless, and it's a hunger that gets worse the more you feed it.
So really I don't fool myself into thinking I'm immune to it, and I'm not a sociopath.
To be clear, Thiel was A Bad Dude from the get-go, but his impact and influence has expanded immensely since he made his nut in the PayPal era (he’s one of the OG PayPal mafia, along with phony stark)
Notable people on the Thiel List pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:
Chamath Palihapitiya
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta
Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies
Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft
Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox
Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe
Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian
Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit
NJ Senator Cory Booker
TX Senator Ted Cruz
CO Governor Jared Polis
CT Rep. Jim Himes
MD Gov. Wes Moore
Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
Tulsi Gabbard
Julian Castro
Jared Kushner
Elon Musk
LEONARD LEO
Grover Norquist
Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)
Larry Summers
Ezra Klein
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic
Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
There is overlap between that Dialog member list and the Epstein files. I don't have time to go through it right now, but at first glance just skimming the Bluesky list, Larry Summers is in the Epstein files, as is Peter Attia.
I'd bet anything they're not the only ones on both, either. If I get the opportunity I'll look through it later and see if I can spot more.
WTF is Jared Polis doing on this list? Maybe that explains his out of the blue decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters
Ezra Klein eh? Abundance my ass.
Shame on you Wes Moore.
The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.
The Irish'll know what to do.
Other talks include “Build-a-Cult,” moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Build-a-Party,” run by a former White House national security official.
Well... I don't like that.
those session titles are lame. these people are losers.
I found this rather amusing:
The form also gathers sensitive answers, including each registrant’s "political leaning,” which Dialog promises “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other participants, ever.” That data, and the matchmaking responses, were exposed in the leak.
Ireland! Do your thing!
They just have to be lucky once
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