Sheeeeet - there's no way I wouldn't absolutely love the same kind of returns as Thiel! To do so however, is to knowingly treat your fellow citizenry and all other humans as dirty peasants.
As a hyper wealthy (on spreadsheet) human, having captured such wealth, he just couldn't resist leveraging those resources to find all the defects in the system. Having now found quite a few, instead of alerting the body able to correct such bugs, you decide to just change your grades and those of your friends instead. Then, instead of being chill like Ferris, you decide to weaponize your knowledge and expertise to get all the people at school replaced with bitter, angry incompetents so it all goes down in flames.
You can try and rationalize, or maybe even moralize it somehow, but dude found a loophole in a system meant for people that work everyday jobs and exploited it for his personal advantage.
Now, he's using his vast wealth to actively undermine the system that made it possible for him to somehow achieve such an outsized personal wealth to more closely fit his personal world view.
I didn't even bring up that time he coldly destroyed Gawker (not defending them!) from the shadows. Does that seem like an forthright individual to you?
jprd|3 years ago
As a hyper wealthy (on spreadsheet) human, having captured such wealth, he just couldn't resist leveraging those resources to find all the defects in the system. Having now found quite a few, instead of alerting the body able to correct such bugs, you decide to just change your grades and those of your friends instead. Then, instead of being chill like Ferris, you decide to weaponize your knowledge and expertise to get all the people at school replaced with bitter, angry incompetents so it all goes down in flames.
You can try and rationalize, or maybe even moralize it somehow, but dude found a loophole in a system meant for people that work everyday jobs and exploited it for his personal advantage.
Now, he's using his vast wealth to actively undermine the system that made it possible for him to somehow achieve such an outsized personal wealth to more closely fit his personal world view.
I didn't even bring up that time he coldly destroyed Gawker (not defending them!) from the shadows. Does that seem like an forthright individual to you?