Billionaire's Disheartening Setbacks

Disillusionment was a recurring theme in my conversations with Thiel. He is worth between $4 billion and $9 billion. He lives with his husband and two children in a glass palace in Bel Air that has nine bedrooms and a 90-foot infinity pool. He is a titan of Silicon Valley and a conservative kingmaker. Yet he tells the story of his life as a series of disheartening setbacks.

A highlighted passage describes Peter Thiel as an immensely wealthy Silicon Valley titan living in a glass palace, yet portraying his life as a series of disheartening setbacks. The joke is the absurd contrast between extreme privilege and self-described hardship, making it useful as a reaction to rich-person complaints or tone-deaf pessimism.

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