Thiel really did see a lot of things long before this election took place, notably a libertarian may feel the need to dismiss the wage stagnation and energy crisis as temporary aberrations, but Peter didn't factor that information out of his model. In hindsight I was originally fooled into believing some weak-form Kurzweilian junk of unremitting technological progress. Now we know we have a deadly fight on our hands if we are not to stagnate.