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- Evil rich man....
That's the main thing he projects. I am an African American. Both my parents were alcoholics who did not finish high school. I grew in a world where I should have died and/or gone to prison. Today, yes, I have the debt, but more importantly I have the knowledge. I know the process of selecting what knowledge I will acquire. I won't sit here bragging (snob factor) about how much better I am than others who didn't go to college. I can only say, with 90% certainty, that I would be in jail or dead if I didn't go to college. I was literally at a dead end in my life at 36 years old and education and learning were a second chance and gave me new life, because without the higher things, what is life? Plato, Aristotle and the boys, they dealt with higher things. Virtue. Perfection. What is a life without virtue and honor? My professors, the good ones anyway, had a way of instilling a virtue in me, that I will carry always. I sin. I do bad things. But i know, that there is a huge good in me and I can't let the dark in me cause me to rest in ignorance. We have a doctor shortage in the US the last time I looked. How in the world can you be Harvard pre-med and drop out? For $100,000 you turn away from the chance to save lives? This is the real choice those kids are making. In the mature mind there is no choice: you do good and you make life better for people. That is what a good education does. That is an almost inevitable result for the serous student. This man has way too much money and he is a poster boy for the Democrats on why it is wrong to give tax breaks to greedy rich people. And then to top it off, he has TWO degrees as he tells others it's a waste of time. EVIL RICH MAN! - Reply to this comment
- America: where we have betrayed our young people who were advised to go to and stay in school.
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- If you have ever worked for a giant corporation, it is essentially a fascist environment. Not to say there are not some good corporations, but the current American system of predatory capitalism puts a very few filthy rich people at the top.
Look at any giant right wing corporation: Wal Mart, Chevron, AT&T, McDonalds, Staples, Home Depot just to name a few. They are run by conservative millionaires and billionaires and just want low paid, uneducated, ignorant workers to run through their revolving door. - Reply to this comment
- This was and is the right wing plan to re-make America. Get rid of the wealth of the middle class and increase the costs of the ownership society.
Make people dependent on giant corporations and dumb them down to create a cheap dependent labor pool. I can't believe I am seeing this go down so quickly in my country. I am shocked and saddened. - Reply to this comment
- Regardless of Thiel's opinions, you're simply not getting a corporate sector job without some kind of degree. I also find it interesting that the notion of forgoing college is currently being promoted by supply-side pundits at a time when outsourcing is causing wages for the average American to drop. Building a new pool of cheap labor at home are we?
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- Thiel is the first person who really seems to "get it". I was impressed with his ideas and reasoning behind them. Yes, I agree that a person with a 4 year degree makes somewhere around what a plumber does. So if not for the money, what is college for? Answer: Better choice in mating material due to concentration of intelligent people. Thiel has gone one step further to promote the welfare of mankind. He understands governments, as they increase in size, increase in corruption, stagnation and in efficiency. Libertarian is the only way to go.
I live in Silicon Valley like Thiel and have made Millions of $. In the 60 Minutes piece, they questioned Thiel's rational about spending his money on things they thought were "unrealistic". Thiel understands that you may not get what you initial goal was, but you might as well get some advancement in technology that will make this all worthwhile. So what, it's not 60 Minute's money. Thiel knows that most of these ideas will go belly up but the ones that hit make it big, sometimes very big. Even if Thiel doesn't make money on any one of his ventures, he still has hundred of millions to live on. Why not make it OK to use your funds to help humanity the way you see it? - Reply to this comment
- woops, typo. What I meant to say is, "I'm stupefied that this question was never asked."
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- woops, typo. "I'm stupefied that these questions were never asked."
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- What good is a college degree when MCDonalds is the only one hiring? I know Machinists and Plumbers can make as much as Doctors and have less than one tenth of the headaches or worries. Elecricans,Painters(house),Carpenters,and craftsmen will always be needed and you can make almost as much money without the hugh school debt to pay back.
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- Boycott College!!!! Drop out now!!! You only live once, go on take the big leap. For each one of you that drops out of college, the value of my degree increases incrementally. Now please go away!
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