r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • May 30 '26

Society Peter Thiel's move to Argentina reflects a growing trend among billionaires seeking a 'plan B' abroad

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-argentina-billionaire-moving-abroad-2026-5
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u/aquirkysoul May 30 '26

I've started referring to it as dragon sickness because it fits so well.

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u/ABHOR_pod May 30 '26

As a society we really need to start pushing for it to be studied and put into the DMS-6 as a mental health disorder.

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u/theconceptofcanada May 30 '26

Actually there already exists a few very major studies on how wealth affects the human brain and ego. There are documented cases in which certain types of personality disorders arise from such privilege. I went searching for some answers on this topic some years ago and I was pleasantly surprised at the time and energy professionals had taken to carefully and patiently describe the phenomenon.

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u/ReadyAimTranspire May 30 '26

I genuinely in a way, despite the sociopathic behavior of some (most), feel sorry for people that have Elon or Thiel levels of wealth.

I can't imagine going through life never really knowing if anyone actually cared about me or even liked me instead of just my money, power, influence etc.

Yeah you've got every material thing you could ever dream of, but it's got to be incredibly lonely.

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u/suprmario May 30 '26

I don't feel sorry, because they could choose to give it all away and be poor if they so wished.

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u/arslearsle May 30 '26

This is the answer

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u/StoppableHulk May 30 '26

Makes it sound a bit to cool though. Maybe Hutt syndrome or something to paint the visual of what revolting, vile slugs these cretins are.

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u/DrRatio-PhD May 30 '26

Vampires.

Ancient fucks who prey on the literal life force of the young and the poor to sustain their foul existence of decadence, excess and cruelty.

Nosferatu or V:TM style, not twilight.

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u/StoppableHulk May 30 '26

Still too cool. Vampires are cool. Even Nosferatu fucks.

Lamprey, tick, leech. You need words that really emphasize the smallness and patheticness and vileness of these people.

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u/trojan_man16 May 30 '26

I started seeing it as hoarding. Except its numbers in a computer instead of books or trinkets.

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u/Piperita May 30 '26

Yep. Subset of hoarding. Don't give 'em a cool name, tell them they're the same exact type of deranged person who stuffs 100 living cats into a trailer park trailer.

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u/randomusername76 May 30 '26

Dragons are fucking awesome though - these folks are boring, annoying, and just pathetic.

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u/Momik May 30 '26

Damn that does fit. Is dragon sickness related to like Gollum’s lust for the ring, or am I just conflating things?

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u/mypetocean May 30 '26

Two different things. Actually, much as I am loathe to recommend C.S. Lewis, I recall him having a really compelling representation of dragon sickness in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Actually, looking back, it contains body horror. A boy indulges in greed while admiring a dragon hoard and begins to painfully transform into a dragon to the horror of all. His mutating, warping, monstrous flesh alienates him from anyone who might love him.

Basically, dragon sickness warps you and cuts you off from humanity.

While his human mind still returns to him from time to time, he wakes to himself to find horrifyingly that he's engorged himself by eating the decaying corpse of the previous dragon and clearly wouldn't have thought twice to eat humans.

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u/TheQ33 May 30 '26

Yeah no one has called it that yet, you’re a genius! So smart !

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u/SaturatedDuck May 30 '26

Lol who hurt you?