~Essentially he is giving 20 Einsteins $100 grand each and 2 years of mentoring from experts. Excuse me, but that mentoring tidbit sounds a little like college. Well. All of the students that were selected either have honorary degrees, have built a new invention(s) or are currently hacking China's Internet Censorship. Their mental capacity and access to resources rivals the President. What exactly is Thiel trying to prove? He says that college degrees are "overvalued" and giving kids a small fortune and expert training will prove more beneficial. Yea right. Give a college kids 20 bucks and they run to the nearest bar. These kids are destined to make millions. He is just speeding up the inevitable.
~Thiel picking the best and brightest in the country to run his little lab test is comparable to picking an all star team to play a schoolyard pickup game. And the home team is in wheelchairs. As a normal member of society, I'm sick of rivaling kids who build Apple products in their spare time. Give that money to financially underprivileged and "normal" students who are going to have to work three to four times harder in life just to make the pocket change these whiz kids will be making. I guess the rich get richer and the poor just suck.
