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One thing that many do not realize is that Peter Thiel is making totalitarian surveillance extremely affordable.
Stasi used to cost 25% of the GDP of East Germany. By 1989 it relied on 500,000 to 2,000,000 collaborators as well as 100,000 regular employees, and it maintained files on approximately 6,000,000 East German citizens—more than one-third of the population.
Palantir Gotham is priced at $141K per core, for a perpetual license, easily hidden.