"Thiel, the founder of data intelligence company Palantir Technologies ... is preoccupied with the risk of a “one-world, totalitarian state” obstructing scienti

"Thiel, the founder of data intelligence company Palantir Technologies ... is preoccupied with the risk of a “one-world, totalitarian state” obstructing scientific and technological progress. He depicts those who lobby for tech regulation as harbingers of the antichrist." There is so much wrong with this guy. How do these nuts rise to such positions of power?