 elites who can't get their act together and use technology to consolidate their control and their economic interests rather than help other people. Thiel famously has this line about technological innovation that we won in flying cars and we got 140 characters, meaning technology had the potential to revolutionize our lives, but instead it gave us Twitter, which makes us unhappy, anxious, and jealous of each other. And Thiel blames that very directly on the perversity and fecklessness of technology