This Peter Thiel piece of shit doesn’t understand human development. He says freedom and democracy are not compatible, and yet we have decades (and in some cases centuries) of data showing that democracies make people freer.
If I could kindly suggest to that asshole to read one book, I’d suggest he reads Christian Welzel’s Freedom Rising. The book is packed with data that shows how democracies create freedom.
For example, democracies invest in their own people.
Democracies invest in education, so that people can choose what kind of life to live.
Democracies invest in healthcare, so that people can live without freedom-limiting disease.
Democracies invest in research, so that people can solve technical problems with ease and spend more time doing things they can choose to do.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. In many, many ways, democracy leads to freedom, true actual freedom.
This Peter Thiel piece of shit doesn’t understand human development. He says freedom and democracy are not compatible, and yet we have decades (and in some cases centuries) of data showing that democracies make people freer.
If I could kindly suggest to that asshole to read one book, I’d suggest he reads Christian Welzel’s Freedom Rising. The book is packed with data that shows how democracies create freedom.
For example, democracies invest in their own people.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. In many, many ways, democracy leads to freedom, true actual freedom.
That all sounds like freedoms for other people. Those don’t sound like freedoms Thiel needs.
You know that whole quote about “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” He’s concerned about the first part.
Really those are socialist democracies.