Thiel brought up Gates and Musk when discussing how an Antichrist figure could dominate in the short span of a lifetime.

After reading a 19th-century poem about how Jesus and Alexander the Great each died at 33, Thiel said in the present age the fastest means to power may be through wealth, noting that Gates became a billionaire at 31.

The world’s richest, in his view, think too little about their identities as billionaires and what will become of their treasures after death.

That’s how Thiel said he persuaded Musk. He said he looked up actuarial tables and found the probability of Musk’s death in the coming year equated to giving $1.4 billion to Gates, who has long sparred with the Tesla CEO.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    5 days ago

    These lunatics actually believe these fairytales about antichrists, demons, angels, end times, etc, and are powerful enough to get us all killed over it.

    It’s bad enough they’re not willing to help humanity, they’re actively against doing that because of their stupid bronze-age fantasies. They could do so much good if they lived in reality but no, they’d rather use the most powerful positions on earth and more resources than anyone has ever controlled to fuck us all in the name of cultish idiocy.

    It’s infuriating.

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      5 days ago

      They have been creating their own reality and it doesn’t include us. In their thinking if 7 billion of us die because of starvation and disease it means they have the whole world to themselves.

      The plan has been made and they have the money and power to implement it.