Palantir CEO: Ivy-educated are upset that the oil and gas profession is more valuable

He's not wrong. Until something else comes along that:

- can be refined into something with more BTUs, is as stable and portable as gasoline

- has the utility to be used in a wide variety of items, especially plastics

the O&G industry is going to remain in high demand (which will increase as we need to work more to find new O&G fields).

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Rule 1, it is illegal for dudes with a lisp to own truck nuts.

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In fairneth I lost my front teeth at Thonic.

Kids/teens have been coached for so long that go to college and get a job or go to a better college and likewise. Problem is that's not how it works. The better colleges give you connections which might get you a better job. College is an investment not a guarantee.

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It was all I could do to keep myself from responding to her post with something like "yeah that is because your food is not that good."

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Says the billionaire from New York with a bachelor's in philosophy who's running a multi-billion dollar tech company solely because of the connections he gained by attending Stanford law school.

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This guy earned his way up by graduating from Haverford College with a degree in philosophy. He suffers from severe dyslexia and used that disability into obsessive fuel to prove he belonged. He did graduate from Stanford Law school but you also left out he earned a PhD in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University by studying under Jurgen Habermas, the godfather of critical theory.

He learned how critical theory creates chaos and this is how the West was getting derailed by this hyper-individualism. He then came back to the US and founded Caipirinha and sold it for a fortune. Then he started working in venture capital and seed investor in early tech plays and made even more money.

In 2003, Thiel tapped him to co-found Palantir. He used Habermas's goofy critical theory ideology and backdoored his theory by turning his abstract theory into a billion dollar company. He lives in New Hampshire and hates woke technology which is why he refused to move to the Silicon Valley.

He is as smart as Elon Musk and busted his arse to get where he is. I've known him for 15 years and he is the real deal.

I think it was Andrew Sullivan who wrote about this in a book 20 years ago. He described being at a fancy dinner party. College professors and journalists chat with millionaire businessmen. They consider themselves more intellectual than the business man and they resent seeing him drive off in a Rolls Royce as they get into their Honda Civics. That's why they're left wing. They want govt to make things fair.

The over-production of “intellectuals” is purposeful. A PhD from Hopkins in Mediterranean Studies provides an immense sense of self-worth and no money.

These people are ripe for revolutionaries as they have a huge delta between their perception of worth and their pay. And they think the system is fricked up because they can’t afford rent.

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He is as smart as Elon Musk and busted his arse to get where he is. I've known him for 15 years and he is the real deal.

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Nice.

People with degrees in Mediterranean studies can’t afford rent anywhere.

From what I’ve heard….