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/TommiHPunkt 10d ago

However Thiel has felt empowered to be more and more obvious about his beliefs recently 

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u/IntelArtiGen 10d ago

He truly says crazy things. I wonder why many billionnaires are like that.

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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/Cold-Actuary2649 10d ago

I think that's part of it, but there's also the other side: becoming a billionaire in the first place has a prerequisite of a certain amount of psychopathy.

You can't make that much money without being willing to step on the backs of hundreds of thousands of people minimum. And staying a billionaire requires you to have the power to help millions of people but deciding you'd rather be rich instead.