Matthew Sheffield on Nostr: Wow: Peter Thiel in a private 2020 email argued that capitalism has failed young ...
Wow: Peter Thiel in a private 2020 email argued that capitalism has failed young Americans, and so this is why they have become socialist.
This was almost literally Zohran Mamdani's campaign message.
The email was posted to Xitter by his VC friend Chamath Palihapitiya.
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