@peterthiel at his most intellectual: remarkable interview in NZZ (in German), spanning Silicon Valley's increasing infertility, economic stagnation, the future of Western societies, Marxist analysis, stoicism, identity politics, the role of politicshttps://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/peter-thiel-donald-trump-handelt-fuer-mich-zu-wenig-disruptiv-ld.1471818 …
... still standing with Trump; it's a "package deal"; Trump addresses hard topics that are ignored by others (China, NATO contributions, illegal immigration), and his failures are partially due to being sabotaged by others
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... polarization in US is not a result of life style but of economic factors, Marx was a smart economist; his broken Historical Materialism nonwithstanding: if interest rates go to zero, it means capitalists no longer know where to invest and it's time for communist revolution
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... economic failure means risk to democracy. There is little danger of fascism or communism right now because these are youth movements and western societies are over aged, but democratic institutions won't last without economic growth
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