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Palantir knows everything.
Its co-founder Peter Thiel is quietly getting out.
The New York Times just reported he has relocated his family to Buenos Aires, enrolled his kids in local schools, and bought a $12 million, 17,200 square foot mansion in the ultra-exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood.
He has met multiple times with Argentina's anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei, including at the Casa Rosada.
And at one point hosted economists for dinner where the topic of conversation was the Antichrist.
Why now?
Deep concerns about America's direction.
Specifically California's November ballot measure that could impose a major new wealth tax on billionaires.
Plus the broader risks Thiel has been warning about for years. Political collapse, nuclear conflict, runaway AI.
This is not a one-off move. It fits a long pattern of building escape hatches.
New Zealand citizenship in 2011, malta passport application in 2022, and now Argentina.
Thiel is not some random billionaire.
He co-founded PayPal, the original fintech disruptor. He co-founded Palantir, the data and AI surveillance powerhouse with massive contracts across US intelligence, defense, ICE, and federal agencies.
He was Trump's biggest tech donor. JD Vance's mentor. A fierce critic of regulatory capture, institutional stagnation, and what he openly calls the failure of democracy.
In his 2009 essay he famously wrote that he no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible.
He started the Thiel Fellowship specifically to pay kids to drop out of college and build something real.
Now the man who helped wire the modern surveillance state is quietly positioning inside Milei's radical free-market experiment.
A potential live testing ground for the ideas he has flirted with for two decades. The Sovereign Individual framework. Corporate governance replacing failing democracies. Crypto and AI-powered exit from the welfare state.
Coincidence.
Or does the man who tends to see further than most already see something the rest of us are missing?
