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I got a linked in job offer come to me and their pro talking points was Peter Thiel was a board member. So instant delete. Like how tone def are recruiters
I remember watching Bond movies as a kid and wondering "where did that evil supervillian get all these henchmen?" Turns out the answer all-along was "linkedin.".
They just ate the illusions capitalism threw at them. You'd be surprised about the number of people who simply don't care that their lives are run by shadow elites who destroy the world as long as they can watch TV and go on holidays.
Panem et circenses, 2000 years later, still works. You just need to make people believe they're the winners of capitalism and they'll support every ugly bit of it.
It doesnt hurt when they also use their mountains of cash and control of mass media and news production and outlets to champion voices supporting them, silence dissenting voices, stoke nationalism and xenophobia, and generally bend and warp popular culture to make fun of those who spend their time learning and doing well in school, educating themselves about history, gathering as workers, making patient, informed purchases-
the whole thing collapses when you look behind the curtain, everyone just hopes it's not that bad, that the next big one happens after they die, and their kids can't come knocking on their door to ask what the actual fuck were they thinking
was thiel one of the founders/financiers of that company. i know thiel likes to be in the shadows while actually controlling his companies.
Not sure, I lost interest as soon as I saw he was involved.