Comment by recursivecaveat

I think it's more than fair to say that Thiel is an evil person. I mean evil is not like a fictional invention, 99.9% of your ancestors understood the capability of people to be evil. It's more like a 80s era "it's all just rational incentives man" thing to pretend that actions have no moral weight. He's a pro-monopolist anti-democracy ("I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible") billionaire who's busy constructing the surveillance state; it's pretty straightforward really.