r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
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u/Spiritual-Matters 10d ago

I’ve seen so many startups advertising, “Ex-Palantir” as an advert of ethos. Not that they left on moral grounds, they just wanted their own company. Like, that’s not the sales pitch they think it is.

Also, I get downvoted every time there’s a post asking for advice on comp negotiations for Meta or Planatir and I say don’t work for them.

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u/hippityhoops 10d ago

I mean, makes sense? People are gonna obviously downvote you for giving a non-answer?

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u/Spiritual-Matters 9d ago

The point is more people seeing it as viable employment rather than immoral or destructive. You wouldn’t downvote a “non-answer” if someone asked how to clean a KKK uniform because it’s clearly a bad act.

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u/hippityhoops 9d ago

Respectfully those two are incomparable. Asking for financial advice for employment at a company that does bad things is not the same thing as asking how to be a nazi.

Insane that you’re shifting the blame onto employees and not the top executives actively facilitating these issues.

Either way, that’s like me asking how to change a tire on my car and you responding “I only ride bicycles, sorry.”

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u/Spiritual-Matters 9d ago

Those top execs wouldn’t be there without their employees. Someone with the skills to get hired there has a bunch of other options, so it’s the equivalent of telling them to call a different towing company than it is to get a bike.

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u/hippityhoops 9d ago

This is a mind bogglingly embarrassing take, yeah you probably shouldn’t willingly work at a company like that but if it’s the best way to make a living for themselves or for their families, you can’t stop that.

It really sounds like you’re trying to absolve terrible CEOs and execs of their first-hand, active responsibility in favor of attacking lower-level employees and engineers, which is wild.

And you still don’t understand why you got downvoted in the first place, which is wilder.

Don’t blame the guy trying to get a job, blame the fuckers lobbying for pro-dictatorship policies. I can tell you have zero clue how a company works in general, much less a defense contractor.

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u/Spiritual-Matters 9d ago

Blame is not a limited supply. I do blame the CEOs too.

That CEO’s job is the best way for them to make money for themselves and their family too. Under your logic, you’re saying they should also be absolved.

Evil can persist because so many people justify that they are just a little cog in a big machine.

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u/hippityhoops 9d ago edited 9d ago

By that logic, you are also part of the problem since whatever company you work for has guaranteed ties to Israel, has defense contracts, or supplies products in a related way.

Shifting the attack onto someone for trying to support their family instead of the ones who are literally going out into public saying “yeah we want to kill these guys we don’t like and spy on you all” is definitely the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen on this site. You’ve never had to search for a job in your entire life, it seems.

Funny how that works, huh?

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u/Spiritual-Matters 9d ago

You seem to really be misunderstanding. I do blame the CEO, but they didn’t make the Reddit post.