Peter Thiel yesterday in @TheFP: “Boomers are strangely uncurious about how the world is not really working for their kids. It’s always hard to know how much bad faith there is or how bad the actors are. I think it’s odd that people thought it was odd that I was complaining about student debt in 2010, when even then the growth in student debt was an exponential process. The national student debt was $300 billion in 2000, and it’s now more than $2 trillion. At some point, that breaks.”
Peter Thiel talking about the rise of socialism, student loans, and high housing costs in 2020: “There’s a generational problem where it is difficult for young people to acquire capital. Via @HooverInst

Nov 8, 2025 · 4:49 PM UTC

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Replying to @TheFP
Read @Seantfischer’s conversation with Peter Thiel: thefp.com/p/peter-thiel-capi…
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Ron Paul has been warning about student and general problems of young people debt for like forever.
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Intellectuals on the right realize that ignoring the 99% can cost them elections, as seen in New York and elsewhere. The boomer angle is, of course, the most obvious one.
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‘Not working’ for who? My kids are all working and making more than me. I guess he doesn’t have kids?
The financial elites blow up the economy in 2008, people correctly assess who did it, start coming after them in 2011, so they create the story that "white people" did it, create ESG, DEI as a diversion they could profit from, now they pretend it was "the boomers" all along..
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