Like a lot of Peter Thiel's smarter moves, this one is hard to explain without an awful lot of background exposition. Think of people as having to pass through a number of filters before they can do anything important with their lives. As the system becomes increasingly rigid, it filters out almost everyone. It's important to keep bypasses open at every point for people who are capable of dissent and not easy to force into molds. Intervening at the right filter point potentially has a lot of leverage.
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Like a lot of Peter Thiel's smarter moves, this one is hard to explain without an awful lot of background exposition. Think of people as having to pass through a number of filters before they can do anything important with their lives. As the system becomes increasingly rigid, it filters out almost everyone. It's important to keep bypasses open at every point for people who are capable of dissent and not easy to force into molds. Intervening at the right filter point potentially has a lot of leverage.