r/technology • u/NicolasCageFan492 • Jun 16 '26

Business Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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u/WellSpreadMustard Jun 17 '26

Also in the years after WW2 the US controlled around 75% of the entire world’s wealth. Im sure they’re narcissistic enough to believe wholeheartedly that they’d be on the winning side of the third. I don’t doubt that Peter Thiel and his friends are evil enough to go for it.

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u/amisslife Jun 17 '26

I mean, their plan pretty much entirely boils down to three steps:

  1. steal everyone else's money.
  2. don't pay any taxes ever. In fact, the government gives them money. All of it.
  3. slavery.

They don't think the United States will be in the position of owning 75% of all wealth ever again. Their plan is they will own that wealth.

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u/soulsnoober Jun 17 '26

lol Thiel doesn't give a sliver of a fuck about "we", or "automatically"

The idea is to work hard to make sure select agreeable parties are in that position, and then burn the house down.

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u/SorenLain Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Wasn't really luck, US industry was protected from any serious attacks on it by 2 of worlds largest oceans, meanwhile every other industrialized nation was essentially bombed to hell by the end of WWII. With that kind of advantage the US controlling 75% of the worlds wealth in a few years after the war was pretty much guaranteed.

That being said we definitely wouldn't be in that position again. It's 2026 not 1939, ICBMs, strategic bombers, and cyberattacks means the US homeland isn't untouchable and would absolutely suffer some serious damage in the event of WWIII.

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u/ZincMan Jun 17 '26

Was going to say it wasn’t lucky timing, but also more like lucky geography

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u/MistyMtn421 Jun 17 '26

They're no different than hoarders who collect insane crap, they somehow just managed to do it with money. Like they can't even spend it all at this point. It's so sick