Billionaire Peter Thiel warns if you 'proletarianize the young people,' don't be surprised they end up communist
PayPal cofounder and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel doubled down on his worries about generational conflict and the future of capitalism after a similar warning he issued in 2020 proved eerily prescient.
After Tuesday night’s election victory of democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani as New York City’s mayor, an email Thiel sent five years ago went viral.
In the correspondence to Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen and others, he warned that “When 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why.”
Thiel expanded on those concerns in an interview with the Free Press that was published on Friday, saying strict zoning laws and construction limits have been good for boomers, who have seen their properties appreciate, but they have been terrible for millennials, who are having an extremely hard time buying homes.
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...back in the late '60s or early '70s, when Reagan was governor of CA. To paraphrase: if you send the children of the working class and lower middle class to college (which is pretty much what the postwar GI bill did), you are going to expose them to the entire history of radical thought. If you simultaneously create an oligarchy, a declining economy, an increasingly dog-eat-dog culture, crappy jobs with with few or no benefits, and you promote "leaders" like Maggie Thatcher who pontificate about how "there is no such thing as society" and dictate to the world how it should spin--well, you shouldn't be surprised when you get "leftist" agitators among your youth calling for revolution! 
