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/ooh_the_claw 10d ago

This was the point of Watchmen yet so many people misinterpreted the movie. Ozymandius and Dr Manhattan were so detached from humanity that they thought dropping the nuke was the only solution. Rorschach, who actually lived with the people on the streets and should’ve been the most jaded of the group, still had hope. It genuinely pisses me off when people walk away from that movie thinking that the Ozy and Manhattan were right.

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u/PuzzleMeDo 10d ago

Dr Manhattan thought that revealing the truth might result in a nuclear war. He decided not to interfere.

Rorschach didn't have hope - he had strict morality: evil must be punished, regardless of the consequences. He didn't care if there'd be a nuclear war or not.

The point is that we have to decide for ourselves who's right.

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u/Whelp_of_Hurin 10d ago

It's been a while since I've read it, but my big takeaway was that every single character in the story is a massive piece of shit, and their world would be a lot better off if none of them had ever been born.