Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina
63 points by mmarian 3 hours ago | 35 comments

laweijfmvo 2 hours ago

  “This idea of wealth taxes on the super-rich has a clear connotation of envy,” Milei told Neura. “We consider taxes to be theft.”
I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’
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rbanffy 2 hours ago
Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
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QuantumNomad_ 43 minutes ago
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ceejayoz 38 minutes ago
You think a major tech titan noping out to Argentina after burning down the system isn’t an interesting phenomenon?
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moscoe 18 minutes ago
I wish this were enforced broadly. Tired of seeing politics on the front page. I come here to avoid that crap.
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cherry_tree 3 minutes ago
Can you describe what your idea of a “hacker” and their associated interests might be?
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baal80spam 16 minutes ago
Yes, 100%.
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canyp 45 minutes ago
Maybe dang can respond. I am curious if this was flagged by users or just censored by mods.
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SlightlyLeftPad 2 hours ago
The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.
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onlyrealcuzzo 2 hours ago
The whole point of destroying a country is to raid it of its wealth and to get out before it burns to the ground...

No one has the honor to ride a ship into the ground.

These days the captains would jump ship at the site of an iceberg and leave everyone to a certain death if there was a chance they'd lose 1 dollar.

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stephbook 2 hours ago
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Markoff 43 minutes ago
yeah, but Argentina has extradition treaty with US, he would stand better chance in Bolivia or Ecuador if it has to be America
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arjie 2 hours ago
Interesting. I could speculate as to why, but has he said anything besides the anti-christ thing? That thing wasn't illuminative in any way. So is it:

* fear of new wealth taxes in the US styled in the California way

* fear of being shot like UHC CEO

* legal retaliation from a new adminstration

Perhaps a little of each but what weighting? And what else? Personally, I'm definitely working to ensure my wife and children have OCI status and their Taiwanese citizenship locked in so that we have escape hatches.

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pan69 2 hours ago
> so that we have escape hatches

From what? Those 3 things you point out above?

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arjie 57 minutes ago
My wife is Taiwanese and I'm Indian. I'm certainly not stupid enough to read the average HN/Reddit thread on Indians and believe that things cannot rapidly change around me.
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cr125rider 47 minutes ago
Yeah Taiwan isn’t under any sort of threat these days, good thinking /s
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the_gastropod 27 minutes ago
You'll find that Americans tend to vastly overestimate how much people in Taiwan actually think about the threat of China. Is there a threat? Yea. But its likelihood is very much still unknown.

In the meantime, Taiwan offers a pretty excellent quality of life, and it's a great option to have in your back pocket, if you're fortunate enough to have a legal pathway to live there.

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freitasm 2 hours ago
Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
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ceejayoz 2 hours ago
History sure rhymes.
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FabHK 2 minutes ago
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WheelsAtLarge 2 hours ago
I wonder why he thinks Milei is going to bring continued change over time? Argentina's economy has been a mess as long as I can remember, decades and decades. Why is Milei so different that's he's willing to move there? He must really see a change he can exploit.
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zulux 33 minutes ago
"four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina." -Simon Kuznet.
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rbanffy 2 hours ago
Argentina is, indeed, quite puzzling. They shouldn’t be a mess, and they should vote better, but, yet, they never get to have a stable period of progress.
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comrade1234 58 minutes ago
He still has to pay USA taxes no matter where he moves.
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ceejayoz 53 minutes ago
Sure, but he'll have optimized those away already.
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qsxfthnkp2322 2 hours ago
Is Argentina the new Florida because Palantir is destroying America?
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rbanffy 2 hours ago
It has been a prime destination for nazis for a long time. I guess they have a friendly government now.
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qsxfthnkp2322 21 minutes ago
But I heard Thiel say Elon said USA is the only place left.
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PedroBatista 2 hours ago
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idle_zealot 2 hours ago
It's pretty funny that he's fleeing the US for fear of instability and rising anti-oligarch sentiment to Argentina. As though their collapsing society will treat him much better when the shit hits the fan.
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rbanffy 2 hours ago
He can fly out when it bounces off the fan but well before it splashes on him.
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Ancalagon 35 minutes ago
wussy
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paulpauper 60 minutes ago
so anyone have anything positive to say about him?
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copx 56 minutes ago
Moving to Argentina to avoid political instability is like moving to Nigeria to avoid black people.

Argentina is way more politically unstable than the US and has a long socialist history.

If I were an arch-capitalist techno overlord, I would move to Singapore.

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jprd 2 hours ago
Good.
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Aboutplants 2 hours ago
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