At this point I think Thiel lives in his own wealth bubble so distinct from the experience of most people that his reckons just should be ignored by default.

I suspect that the main reason we see what he has to say so much is that he can pay a publicist to get people to listen to him .... he's essentially trying to buy\ his way into the 'marketplace of ideas' using money rather than actual ideas, essentially trying to skew the marketplace in his favor