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Peter Thiel Relocates Family to Buenos Aires

Is this smart planning or unprincipled libertarianism at its finest?

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Peter Thiel Relocates Family to Buenos Aires

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Above: Peter Thiel at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 14, 2023. Image credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

Right narrative

Peter Thiel's move to Buenos Aires makes total sense, as California's proposed billionaire tax threatened him with a 10-figure bill, and Argentina under Milei offers a libertarian-aligned alternative. Thiel and Milei share the same anti-tax, anti-regulation worldview, making Argentina a natural fit. Add in fears of nuclear war and AI collapse, and building a plan B in the Southern Hemisphere is just smart planning.

Alec Oxenford on X New York Post

Left narrative

Thiel fleeing to Argentina while his protégé Vance sits in the White House and Palantir pulls in $687 million in government contracts exposes a glaring contradiction. The most politically connected billionaire in America, who spent years building surveillance infrastructure through PayPal, Facebook and Palantir, is now building exit routes from the very country whose politics he's actively shaping. This is unprincipled libertarianism.

Independent