Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:35PM (#47051183)

Umm, I am not sure. If you can type on HN you are probably much richer than most in 3rd world countries and you for sure can give majority of your wealth to them. Almost everyone of any richness thinks they are not rich enough although almost everyone in tech probably is.

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Re:Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 by Schmerika on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @07:12PM (#47068243)

Which part of what I said are you unsure about? I'm pretty confident about it.

> If you can type on HN you are probably much richer than most in 3rd world countries

Centuries of exploitation, ongoing, that we all benefit from. Yes.

> and you for sure can give majority of your wealth to them.

Well, no, not really. Not if I want to own a house, and be able to retire some day. For those living in America it's even tougher; where a medical emergency can bankrupt a lot of people.

But what you're missing is that the difference between being a millionaire (which I'm not even) and a billionaire is ... About a billion dollars.

And rather than help 3rd world countries, or even the hungry people in their own, billionaires generally do shit like what's in the Epstein Files (which Thiel explicitly is) and the Panama Papers to keep things getting even better for themselves at everyone else's expense.

So, you're conflating two very, very different scenarios.

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