Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>I listened to a podcast interview with <a href="https://graz.social/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV7YgnPUxcU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=vV7YgnPUxcU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> "<a href="https://graz.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> and <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Immortality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immortality</span></a>: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with <a href="https://graz.social/tags/RossDouthat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RossDouthat</span></a>"</p><p>I never listened to <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> directly before. However, after this weird hour of thoughts, I doubt that he has a clue what the basic <a href="https://graz.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> of the <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Catholic</span></a> Church actually is (e.g., redemption by others vs. oneself).</p><p>It seems to be the case that he's just a weird person who happen to take away over 15,850 average lifetime salaries(!) from our society to invest in very problematic stuff where a few <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> profit from and certainly not the society or human race.</p><p>Derived from that, you could argue, that he is a candidate for an <a href="https://graz.social/tags/AntiChrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiChrist</span></a>, not some (also problematic) girl who wants to save the planet. 🤷 </p><p>Calculation sources:<br><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/peter-a-thiel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/billionaires/pro</span><span class="invisible">files/peter-a-thiel/</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theknowlesgroup.org/blog/average-american-lifetime-earnings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theknowlesgroup.org/blog/avera</span><span class="invisible">ge-american-lifetime-earnings/</span></a><br><a href="https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2823.4*10%5E9%29%2F%28%281850000%2B1100200%29%2F2%29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2823</span><span class="invisible">.4*10%5E9%29%2F%28%281850000%2B1100200%29%2F2%29</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/TechBillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBillionaires</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a></p>