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Whenever Thiel talks about Palantir, I get a bit confused. I wonder if he suffers from cognitive dissonance. One of his most successful companies is a company
by marcamillion 13y ago
Whenever Thiel talks about Palantir, I get a bit confused.
I wonder if he suffers from cognitive dissonance.
One of his most successful companies is a company that does big data analysis for the DOD (likely the Intelligence Community)...yet he is stridently libertarian - to the point where he is a Seasteader.
So I can't quite reconcile the two.
- gohrt 13y ago1. Many Libertarians give defense spending a free pass, calling defense the only essential function of government. 2. Libertarians are opposed to giving money to govt, not taking money from govt.
- marcamillion 13y agoYes...but the core of a libertarian is that they value their LIBERTY over anything else. It can't just be that Thiel wants to make money. Would he be involved in a company that is systematically eroding the very liberties that he publicly claims to cherish, all for a few more hundreds of millions of dollars? I doubt it. So there must be something else going on - and I am genuinely interested.