Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and one of the earliest investors in Facebook, has written a book on how entrepreneurs can achieve greatness. He speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about innovation and its stagnation.
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Very rich and very poor at the same time. Any man could be comparatively very rich, and only in some aspects. But only the truly good man, who would consciouly admits to himself that he knows, that he is very rich, yet at the same time, very poor in other aspects. — These men are the most worthy to be my long term teacher, friend, and comrade.
Please Mr. Peter Thiel, let me have a short moment of your precious time, I have the solution to your quest for the world. Thank you for your attention. al
This hack job of an edit trying to get sound bites out of Peter Thiel in 3 and a half minutes is a prime example of why long form video podcasts, such as by Joe Rogan, are the only way to have meaningful debates and conversation.
We live in a capitalistic society & the goal of capitalism is to earn as much money as possible. There are many different ways of doing so both legal & illegal. The legal ways are to innovate, to create services & ย to create products. The goal is to create stuff which people may want or something that people didn't know that they wanted. In a capitalistic system there will always be poor people, the reason there seems to be more poor people is because of the increase in population. Capitalism works by people finding new niches to exploit & turning a blind eye from any 'problems' whether that be pollution, poverty, low living standards, mass extinctions, inequalities & change in climate. Problems only get 'solved' in a capitalistic system when it's seemed to be a immediate threat or when there is a large ruckus from the masses. Capitalism was okay before but in the information age there needs to be a shift in thinking on how economies/governments are organized & structured. The reason why no one is interested in thinking about changing things (many people are talking about it but no one who has any actual power) is because they don't believe capitalism needs fixing nor do they believe capitalism needs to be changed into a different system/s. In short capitalism is short sighted with only looking to make money for the people who are living the life of luxury at the top of the pyramid whilst the masses are having to deal with the aforementioned issues.
Sorry for the long post but I really believe in the subject of needing change that will allow us in present to allow the people in the future to live sustainably with less effects on the environment & on population.ย