That thing where he's against democracy - also taken out of context! Let's all live with Peter Thiel so we always properly understand the context!
Hypothetical: He had a difficult childhood. Does that change your opinion about the things he's doing to all of us today?
Money should never equal power as fully as it does in the USA today.
Tax is not a punishment.
Are you replying to the wrong person? I specifically pointed out that they were thinking about something else.
autonomous drones
They really thought that sounds like a plus
Hardly. If the alcohol tax on a bottle of wine is €5 and the bottle is sold for €10, that's a pretty steep price. If the bottle is sold for €100 or even more, it's nothing.
But I understand that you were probably thinking about companies calculating spending & sales.
Even the countries that do this employ all sorts of edge case rules not to make it too fair.
Well, at least my country does. One of those famous Northern European "Socialist" countries.
That's what I was going for!
TBF: both rich and poor people pay luxury tax (tobacco, alcohol etc.) - but such taxes always affect low income people more.
What's with 'muricans and cherry-picked bible literalism.
Just another fetish.
This is so much more important than whatever elitism OOP implies.
I'm also not 40 btw.