This is exactly in line with Thiel's principles.

> Hey, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, was selling out all your principles worth it?

I don't think they have sold out their principles. These are their principles.

Thiel thinks democracy and freedom are incompatible. Thiel thinks women getting the vote was bad. Thiel's ambition is to "escape" democracy by seasteading or by building "freedom cities" or "network states":

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump...

https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-freedom-cities-and...

It's a juvenile perspective. It's John Galt cosplay.

They think they will build a utopia. In reality what they're proposing is garden variety authoritarianism.

luxury beliefs from people who have never imagined a world where their basic security and economic success was not guaranteed by the mere fact of being US citizens. Founders have so much power to just not take their money, so why do we take them seriously again?