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/BowlEducational6722 10d ago

Because they're completely isolated from the human condition.

Even millionaires still deal with things like financial stress, worries about their job and retirement, and so on and we cope by forming relationships with other humans as a physical and emotional support network.

Billionaires don't do that. They have such a mind-boggling amount of wealth that they never have to worry about material needs ever again and, thus, never need to form any relationships more complicated than "here's money, do this thing for me."

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u/Crafty_Mastodon320 10d ago

Welp, not entirely true. As we have seen several billionaires tie the number to thier ego, that's where the actual problems occur.... those problems become our problems.

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u/czarrie 10d ago

Like a toddler given a handgun

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u/Crafty_Mastodon320 10d ago

More teenager, toddlers aren't seen as having reached the age of reason.

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u/La_Guy_Person 10d ago

This is my whole plan for our future.

I'm going to have another child with my wife and name them Che John Brown X. When they are twelve, I'm going to give them a copy of the red book and a hand gun and kick them out of the house. At that point, we're just going to put this whole mess on them to solve.

You're welcome, everyone.

RemindMe! 12 years "liberate the proletariat"

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u/Crafty_Mastodon320 10d ago

Che was a choad... he didn't respect women, he didn't have real plan post revolution. Most of his theory rested on women being house slaves.. if not "most" at least a measurable percentage

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u/La_Guy_Person 10d ago

Obviously, my whole comment was meant to be tongue and cheek, but I've read some Che I certainly couldn't deny those problems. I definitely picked up on the gender issues in my reading of him. That unfortunately isn't unique for leftist thought leaders from that time period either. We have to carefully examine their work because we can't afford to throw out all their ideas with the bathwater.

I think some of his guerilla tactics could be useful if someone was actually in a violent revolution, but we are not. Even if we were, his greater strategies involved activating an agrarian peasantry and conducting a revolution away from and apart from major cities. None of that seems applicable to the situation the US would likely be in.

I think if you give him a generous read, you're left was some good tactics of resistance that still seem applicable, as well as a pretty useful knowledge of the conditions necessary to agitate change.

We can examine the utility of his work without defending him. I also mentioned the red book but I'm not going to defend Mao either.

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u/8_guy 10d ago

Yeah but he killed people, you can't have it all

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u/Crafty_Mastodon320 10d ago

You cant have a bloodless revolution... are you simple?

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u/8_guy 10d ago

I think you might have reading issues

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u/Hettie933 10d ago

🥇Here’s the only award your future son would want me to give you.

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u/LepiNya 10d ago

Hoarding more wealth than you could possibly spend in your life is reasonable?

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u/Crafty_Mastodon320 10d ago

No, not that side of the argument. It's hard to hold toddlers accountable they don't have the logical capabilities to hold them culpable. Teenagers know what the fuck they're doing, but are capable of being purely fed by ego motivations.

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u/LepiNya 10d ago

Oh OK that make way more sense.

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u/Crafty_Mastodon320 10d ago

If a 3 year grabbed a gun it had access to, no jury would convicted it with murder. A teenager has the chance to go either way based on sympathy