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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I guess that makes things like roads, schools, and hospitals a ‘handout’
Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.
Maybe dang can respond. I am curious if this was flagged by users or just censored by mods.
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You think a major tech titan noping out to Argentina after burning down the system isn’t an interesting phenomenon?
The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.
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.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
yeah, but Argentina has extradition treaty with US, he would stand better chance in Bolivia or Ecuador if it has to be America
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.
> so that we have escape hatches
From what? Those 3 things you point out above?
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.
Yeah Taiwan isn’t under any sort of threat these days, good thinking /s
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.
Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.
https://archive.is/C11Dj
History sure rhymes.
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.
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.
"four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina." -Simon Kuznet.
He still has to pay USA taxes no matter where he moves.
Sure, but he'll have optimized those away already.
Is Argentina the new Florida because Palantir is destroying America?
It has been a prime destination for nazis for a long time. I guess they have a friendly government now.
But I heard Thiel say Elon said USA is the only place left.
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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.
He can fly out when it bounces off the fan but well before it splashes on him.
wussy
so anyone have anything positive to say about him?
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.
Good.