Peter Thiel hires disgraced ex-Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz
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e: I suppose it’s supposed to be ex-(Austrian chancellor). The spacing makes it confusing.
The story here is that Kurz is actually corrupt, why anyone would hire him is beyond me.
Actually most politicians pensions are pretty generous, and they generally don't need to work, financially.
Not practical of course but interesting to think about.
I wonder if there are numbers on this, but it seems to me that of those doing an active thing related to football post-retirement, the vast majority go into coaching, some do punditry, mostly failing at it, and some do ambassadorships and similar.
There's something very valuable in a society that professes norms and social contracts and makes it socially unacceptable to violate them, even if people will always attempt to do so.
You want the violators to have to sneak around and do it in the shadows because there's a cost associated with being found out.
It reminds me of certain "political sentiments" that have recently come to the fore. A friend of mine argued that it's better to have it be overt, since we know the sentiment exists.
I took that argument, but countered that there's also a very real danger in mainstreaming or normalizing those sentiments. Societies should be aspirational. And, if a society no longer sees value in imagining itself as better then it has very little chance of becoming so.
It seems to be cyclical, so there's actually a lot of truth to the notion of better times (as well as worse times).
Bill Gates was being directed by Epstein to hand out $millions here and there even back in the '80s. But it is hard to guess who is/was worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
>And I have just as much evidence to back up my theory as you have.
So you have evidence of other telepathic dog mind control schemes having happened through history?
And yes, I have evidence of this happening through history too.
That money came from him, not from the founders. He cut the checks and decided conditions. He didn't have to pay those wages, and he got his money's worth, but that doesn't change that he still did just that, which is completely against the MBA playbook.
That, to me, is a contrarian.
Please don't do that. You can make your substantive points without it.
One of my relatives was the ambassador to Germany before WWII started (from an economically important, non-White country) and loved to tell everyone how Hitler was incredibly nice to him and his wife.
EDIT: It's not like a bribe, he didn't pay me an outrageous amount. I earned it then, in full. It was just unusual because he wasn't trying to minimize what I got from working for him. And I spoke to another employee there who loved the place and the top thing on her mind was beyond its basic virtue, it was a place that didn't require a college degree to get paid decently. Go figure, the wage a place pays, without you having to play mind games and negotiation tactics day in and day out, matters. Wages drive employee satisfaction, who would have thought.
Seems like a win for Thiel, assuming Kurz remains motivated and driven.
My only question would be is Kurz a good team player, and what specifically was corrupt that led to his downfall? Is this behavior considered corrupt as a capital manager?
From the article:
>Kurz, who was once Europe’s youngest elected leader at age 31, resigned as Austria’s chancellor in October after prosecutors announced he was under investigation for allegations of corruption.
>Austrian authorities are investigating claims that Kurz and his political allies used public money to publish doctored polls in a bid to retain power. Kurz has denied wrongdoing.
he doctored polls to stay in power. Now i guess he'll doctor financial reports to stay on the good side of Thiel and to keep such a cushy job :)
Just get his friends into the BVI/Caymans feeder fund and move on, nobody will know who the limited partners are, especially employees at the companies they get funded.