Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the billionaire tech investor said the Vatican’s concerns could discourage America in the AI arms race, warned of a democratic-socialist takeover and explained why he named Palantir after JRR Tolkien’s treacherous seeing stones.
Money does this to people. Because money is power. And power corrupts absolutely.
Money also happens to reward and promote the worst kind of behaviors, so the richest people tend to already be the most psychopathically aligned.