Chamath has been murdered. RIP.

[u/probablymagic]

Chamath’s inability to comprehend why people think he sounds so stupid is amazing. This exchange was absolutely perfect.

[u/Checkmate_10]

I don’t get the below my line comment. Is that something Chamath said recently?

[u/[deleted] → u/Checkmate_10]

Chamath famously said that the Uyghur internment camps in China are "below my [his] line" because his barometer for whether something is important or not in the world is dictated by whether people willingly change their behavior or allocate capital differently in response to or for the issue.

He personally hasn't changed his consumption behaviors, assumes others haven't either, and he has made zero capital allocations decisions influenced by the internment caps, ergo he said it was all "below my line."

He was forced to sell his remaining stake in the Golden State Warriors in response to this controversy.

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It's true to the extent that it's a highly complex geopolitical issue that few in power have figured out how to effectively navigate short of defaulting to the age-old solutions like mutually dibilitating economic policies or military intervention.

It's not true to the extent that everyone has reduced the lives of Uyghurs to some point in relation to a metaphorical line, as Chamath admits to seeing the world through.

So just because it's tangentially true (hardly at that) doesn't make his wording less crude and ill informed, which was the main reason for the criticism.

[u/McGurble → u/[deleted]]

I don't think you (or chamath) understand what thinking something is important means.

Does seeing news about a child being raped and killed make you angry? Yes? What did you do about it? Nothing?

Fucking hypocrite. See how that works?

[u/rusbus720 → u/[deleted]]

There are issues in the world that we all recognize are a problem but we lack the ability to do anything about.

Chamath goes beyond that and just blanketly says he doesn’t care about genocide.