Palmer Luckey

And there are other countries that have been doing this.

Japan has been saying, hey, in our government-run schools, we are going to provide for free education in certain areas of national interest.

And if you want to pursue that

ancient French theater degree, by all means do so, but we're not going to rob taxpayers to pay for it.

We're not going to subsidize the decisions of teenagers who don't understand what it means to serve your country and really don't even understand how to serve themselves.

I think that's a really big thing.

We could say, you know what, if we're going to make this a nation that rewards innovation and that promotes innovation...

We need to be steering people in that direction.

And we need to be conscious about the fact that not every degree is equal.

Not every pursuit is equal when it comes to accomplishing those aims.

I mean, part of it is it would be great if we had two orders of magnitude more Peter Thiels.

People have tried to weaponize it against him.

Maybe this is just totally the wrong way to look at it.

This is a very low conviction approach at it, but it's the first thing that pops into my mind.

When you do something like a Thiel fellowship, you create a lot of surface area for people to come after you.

You have all these people who are now affiliated with you, tied to you, trading on your name.

And that's true whether it goes well or goes poorly.

And there's an asymmetry of value in that probably if it goes poorly, it is going to blow back a lot more than the benefit of it going well.

I'll give you a hypothetical.

What if SBF was a Teal Fellow?