What's the deal with the Paypal mafia intentionally trying to collapse the economy?
I keep seeing posts that some tech oligarchs have infiltrated the US government and trying to crash it like post USSR collapse so they can buy up everything on the cheap and cause and mass unemployment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa
I never heard most of these names before but now I keep saying them everywhere:
* Peter Thiel,
* Elon Musk,
* Brian Armstrong,
* Marc Andreessen,
* Ben Horowitz,
* David Sacks
* Balaji Srinivasan
* Curtis Yarvin
How seriously should these theories be taken? These people seem like clowns but now they seem to have found their way into the government so not sure about anything anymore.
Edit: typo.