Thiel recalled that, “He was more the socialist, I was more the capitalist. He was always talking about Marxist theories of alienated labor and how this was true of all the people around us.”[2][7] Karp said that he felt different at “every institution I interacted with”.[2] After his undergraduate studies and law school, Karp earned a Ph.D. in neoclassical social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, in 2002.
here lies the answer + big money why karp went right, but still he is scumbag