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For Dark Transhumanists, as for the neo-reactionaries from whom they take their cues, egalitarianism is inherently incompatible with any posthuman future. Take Peter Thiel, the Facebook investor who in a 2009 essay for the libertarian journal Cato Unbound announced, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." Asked in a 2011 New Yorker profile whether the kinds of life extension technologies he was investing in might exacerbate already grotesque levels of social inequality, Thiel's response offered a glimpse into the ethical simple-mindedness of his techno-libertarianism: "Probably the most extreme form of inequality," he said, "is between people who are alive and people who are dead. "