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Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

https://www.ft.com/content/3d7ab893-1842-4c6c-a3d9-26871d79dde4
55•mmarian•2h ago

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mmarian•2h ago
https://archive.is/C11Dj
SlightlyLeftPad•48m ago
The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.
onlyrealcuzzo•43m ago
The whole point of destroying a country is to raid it of its wealth and to get out before it burns to the ground...

No one has the honor to ride a ship into the ground.

These days the captains would jump ship at the site of an iceberg and leave everyone to a certain death if there was a chance they'd lose 1 dollar.

stephbook•46m ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
jprd•37m ago
Good.
idle_zealot•35m ago
It's pretty funny that he's fleeing the US for fear of instability and rising anti-oligarch sentiment to Argentina. As though their collapsing society will treat him much better when the shit hits the fan.
rbanffy•20m ago
He can fly out when it bounces off the fan but well before it splashes on him.
ceejayoz•32m ago
History sure rhymes.
PedroBatista•32m ago
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laweijfmvo•29m ago

  “This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.”
I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’
qsxfthnkp2322•24m ago
Is Argentina the new Florida because Palantir is destroying America?
rbanffy•22m ago
It has been a prime destination for nazis for a long time. I guess they have a friendly government now.
WheelsAtLarge•21m ago
I wonder why he thinks Milei is going to bring continued change over time? Argentina's economy has been a mess as long as I can remember, decades and decades. Why is Milei so different that's he's willing to move there? He must really see a change he can exploit.
rbanffy•17m ago
Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.
arjie•20m ago
Interesting. I could speculate as to why, but has he said anything besides the anti-christ thing? That thing wasn't illuminative in any way. So is it:

* fear of new wealth taxes in the US styled in the California way

* fear of being shot like UHC CEO

* legal retaliation from a new adminstration

Perhaps a little of each but what weighting? And what else? Personally, I'm definitely working to ensure my wife and children have OCI status and their Taiwanese citizenship locked in so that we have escape hatches.

pan69•16m ago
> so that we have escape hatches

From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

arjie•11m ago
My wife is Taiwanese and I'm Indian. I'm certainly not stupid enough to read the average HN/Reddit thread on Indians and believe that things cannot rapidly change around me.
freitasm•19m ago
Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
rbanffy•18m ago
Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
paulpauper•14m ago
so anyone have anything positive to say about him?
comrade1234•12m ago
He still has to pay USA taxes no matter where he moves.
ceejayoz•7m ago
Sure, but he'll have optimized those away already.
copx•10m ago
Moving to Argentina to avoid political instability is like moving to Nigeria to avoid black people.

Argentina is way more politically unstable than the US and has a long socialist history.

If I were an arch-capitalist techno overlord, I would move to Singapore.

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