Peter Thiel
Person on 2 sites
Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2009-04-13 -
5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Freedom and democracy are not compatible -- a conclusion reached after two decades of changing his mind about how freedom is achieved. (opens korrents.com)
“But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
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The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it. (opens korrents.com)
“In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.””
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With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change. (opens korrents.com)
“Because there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country; and for this reason I…”
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Freedom and democracy are not compatible -- a conclusion reached after two decades of changing his mind about how freedom is achieved. (opens korrents.com)