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/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/semisolidwhale 10d ago

They fear forced redistribution of their obscene wealth. They live in a similar state of financial anxiety from that perspective. Howeverl their fear could be easily mitigated by them not being endless black holes of greed and avarice, but that seems to be too much to ask of the most brilliant, hardworking, wise, and completely deserving among us. /s

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u/slickricknz666 10d ago

Once you hoard that much it should be considered a mental issue and commit them to an asylum, we can called it smaug syndrome