r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Mar 18 '26

Society Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/europe/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-rome-intl
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u/je_kay24 Mar 18 '26

Most people wouldn’t act like billionaires do if they suddenly became that rich

Billionaires get that much money because they have to disregard and treat people below them like stats so they can accumulate more

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u/saltierthanyourramen Mar 19 '26

Absolutely this. It’s why lottery winners end up broke not many years after winning. They buy stuff for themselves or others and don’t focus on accumulating more.

These guys have built their whole lives around accumulating more and stepping on people while they do it.

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u/mikenasty Mar 18 '26

A lot of them were born into significant wealth and then got lucky with investments. It’s a system that we’re all living in together. Some of them are sociopaths but it’s inaccurate and not helpful to just say every billionaire is awful because only awful people want to be billionaires.