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While that applies to about every decision Peter Thiel has ever made, Jeremy Bentham was actually 100% sincere about the panopticon and wanted it to achieve exactly what the ghoul in OP stated.

Edit: BTW thanks for making me look this stuff up, i just learned that Victorian England had a bunch of prisons that were modeled after the Panopticon, and that there's several more in Germany and Italy. Yet the only one you always hear about is the one in Cuba, and it is ofc almost never mentioned that it was built in the late 1900s and closed down under Castro. For some reason, news outlets like to omit that and just say "oh yeah that's in Cuba".