Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive?
by MrMan on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:30AM
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thiel gave us a payments company, a shitty hedge fund and a government contractor doing consulting work. not to be reductionist, but his complaining doesn't register for me at all. for god's sake he tries to get people to quit Stanford to start businesses that necessarily can only coast on previous achievements, instead of doing science.
Re:Why isn’t new technology making us more productive?
by systemvoltage on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:46AM
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I never understood this kind of vitriol against Thiel. The media has been smearing his image because he didn’t fit into the mold of their political agenda.
I suggest listening to his interviews with a completely open mind and thinking on your own. I sometimes disagree with him but in no way he is evil/satanic as media portrays him. Sad.
OP/Thiel's point: It's not that we haven't made any progress, but rather the progress since the cold war has been disappointing.
I'm a bit ambivalent about Globalisation and whether that can be considered progress. We globalized several times (Early trade routes, 14th century, British empire and then again in post-modern era).