>>13440334Absolutely legendary. He will unironically be studied in the future the same way pseuds study the Greeks. In other words, an important person to listen to. He had a conspiracy to take down Gawker—and he succeeded. Although there's no definite proof (donations aren't definitive nor clearly decisive), it's entirely possible that he formed a conspiracy to get Trump elected—and he succeeded.
As for his current conspiracies? I would say the most obvious and public conspiracy he has is popping the educational bubble and unironically profiting from it. How will he do it? First, a student(?) of his once heard Peter Thiel say that if he had done his job right, Zero to One is the only education you need (I think the original sauce is a Quora question, but I can't find it). Second, his Thiel Fellowship gives $100,000 to students who want to drop out and immediately begin their own start-up. Third, he has given plenty of talks and debates on how education is currently a bubble (iirc his main argument is that if you define technology as doing more with less, then college is anti-technology because society is putting more students and more funding into universities despite more and more students accumulating debt, which causes students to go to careers instead of beginning a potentially innovative, billion-dollar, world changing start-ups—said in another way, careers are anti-technology and that more students means more people doing the same thing instead of doing different things). There's probably more, but, as with all conspiracies, one must keep their mouths shut to execute the conspiracy successfully.
This is just speculation, but perhaps his other conspiracy is to replace governments with startups. Politics causes atrocities (Holocaust, Gulag, Chinese famine, etc.); yet small startups created billion-dollar industries by creating things that no one else has created. Thiel favors small startups.