Most Peter Thiel interviews are just about zero to one, which is fantastic, but it gets boring once you know it. This is old, but different and interesting. It's about his move from SV to Los Angeles in 2018.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NhYV63K5E …
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Replying to @Molson_Hart
Interesting. I’m curious about his “break away civilization” he and other billionaires envision New Zealand to be
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Replying to @CRobska
Yeah... Then Jacinda seized all the guns and locked all the borders.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @CRobska
With what happened to Kim Dotcom, it's not the paradise it's made out to be.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @CRobska
I don't think any country will ever be. Even if an initial exodus of like minded immigrants create a certain society their descendants tend to have different ideas. Wealth only lasts 3 generations or however that Chinese saying goes.
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Replying to @gsvigruha @CRobska
I think it's totally possible. I mean, haven't we seen it in the United States? It seems to be possible amongst ethnic groups too, like Jews (who, might I add), seem to be immune to the 3 generation thing.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @CRobska
I think the USA might have been a one time opportunity. Normally you don't discover a new large continent and build it up gradually over 200 years. And it's changing now. The small ethnic groups is a stronger argument but Israel aside they don't tend to be a country.
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Even within the USA you can see how entrepreneurship moves towards the empty lands. East Coast -> West Coast -> remaining midlands.
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Replying to @gsvigruha @CRobska
Uh...have you seen land values in Silicon Valley? Doesn't give me much of a "empty land" vibe. I disagree with you here.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @CRobska
Yes but that's my point! It was empty lands, then entrepreneurship moved there after the gold rush, and now it's slowly changing as people are moving out California to Austin/Colorado/Arizona etc.
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I’m still at work and have to finish that but I think you’re overly focused on a partially explanatory variable
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @CRobska
Quite possible. FWIW i don't think this explains everything but there does seem to be (to me) an overall life cycle of societies. As I said on the other thread I think any fix for the US would include internalizing this colonizing->building->declining cycle within the country.
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Replying to @gsvigruha @CRobska
China seems like an extremely strong counterexample.
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