Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina

mmarian

https://archive.is/C11Dj

SlightlyLeftPad

The least he could do is keep his family in the country he’s helping destroy.

stephbook

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)

idle_zealot

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.

ceejayoz

History sure rhymes.

laweijfmvo

“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’

qsxfthnkp2322

Is Argentina the new Florida because Palantir is destroying America?

WheelsAtLarge

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.

arjie

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.

freitasm

Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.

rbanffy

Why is this being flagged? It’s the FT, it’s factual, and we can deal with misconduct by flagging the individual comments.

paulpauper

so anyone have anything positive to say about him?

comrade1234

He still has to pay USA taxes no matter where he moves.

copx

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.

aanet

> Thiel has purchased a six-bedroom mansion in Palermo Chico, a leafy central neighbourhood full of embassies. He has also bought land to build a home near Punta del Este, a Uruguayan beach town popular with Argentina’s wealthy, said one person familiar with his plans. Great. So he is doing to Argentina, and now Uruguay, what he did to America