The Rubin Report The Most Doomed Cities & Why Tech Progress Has Stalled | Peter Thiel | TECH | Rubin Report
25 snips
Mar 5, 2023 AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Mobility Restores Healthy Societies
- Peter Thiel says geographic mobility in the U.S. is healthy and long overdue after decades of decline.
- Moving lets people escape unreformable local politics and start over in more flourishing places.
Exit Often Beats Local Politics
- Thiel argues exit often beats voice when local politics become deeply ideological and unreformable.
- He found engaging San Francisco politics was futile compared with simply moving away.
Institutions Are Anti‑Teching Themselves
- Thiel defines technology as doing more with less and notes many institutions show the opposite trend.
- Public schools and healthcare cost more while delivering less, reflecting anti-technology stagnation.