Palantir CEO says 'poor people' are 'the only people who pay the price for being wrong in this culture'

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SWEET.MOTHER.OF.GOD.

Can the entitled elitist class of amErican oligarchs be any less self aware - or any more full of shit than THIS fucking guy? Can somebody smart help me understand this preachy self righteous asshole?

Alex Karp, a self-styled modern-day philosopher with an Internet Masters Degree in Corporate Morality, has uncovered some groundbreaking data and we should all sit up and listen. His message?

Poor people are the sacrificial lambs of society, while the rich executives are the untouchable gods of Olympus, immune to consequences.

Wow. How is it that nobody else in the civilized world has ever noticed this trend until now?

This arrogant cock sucker was speaking at the New York Times' annual DealBook Summit when he blessed humanity with his insights. For the unwashed uneducated masses, the DealBook Summit is a pat-each-other-on-the-back gathering of global elitists, billionaires, celebrities, politicians, and other influencers. The tickets for this shindig go for anywhere from $2,950 all the way up to VIP packages costing $25,000.

HOLY.FUCKING.SHIT.

How disconnected from the reality of your bullshit musings can one actually be as they sit in front of a room full of filthy rich fucking elitist corporate pricks while pretending that delivering his sermon from the mount is a game changing testament to his wisdom and foresight?

FUUUUUUUUCK You Karp.

Now, let’s unpack this masterpiece of corporate self-awareness…
…he laments that "poor people" are the only ones paying the price for being wrong. A bold statement, coming from the CEO of a company that has made billions selling data analytics to governments and corporations; tools that, unless I’ve been using someone else’s software over the years, certainly don’t prioritize the plight of the poor.

But hey, at least he’s aware of the problem, amiright?
-That’s half the battle, isn’t it?
-Isn’t it
…even if he doesn’t realize that people like him are the “other” half of the problem.

But why bother to solve the problems of the poor – or even the not so poor – or just the run of the mill citizen - when you can just wax poetic to a room filled with billionaires and corporate sycophants about systemic inequality while cashing in on hundreds of millions of dollars in government funded contracts (paid for with the oppressed poor people’s tax money)?
…all the while bashing other businesses that get money from the government.

Now, I’m not saying that this asshole - and other assholes - cut from the same cloth - are not entitled to the fruits of their labor. Not at all. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Just don’t sit up there on the dais and fucking preach to us about the plight of poor people and the oppressed.

Karp’s disdain for corporate bailouts is almost touching. He wants us to know that he is outraged that business leaders make "stupid decisions" and then run to the government for help. He wants us to know that HIS company – a noble paragon of righteousness in the murky evil of silicone valley - absorbs the "full risk" of its failures. Nothing like a long history of profiteering from government contracts to illustrate the epitome of rugged individualism. Folks like Daniel Boone and Sam Houston would be proud because nothing screams "self-reliance" like being a key player in the military-industrial complex.

Just kidding. Fuck you Alex – fuck you right in your stupid asshole you self-righteous prick.

Oh – and let’s not forget one of brilliant solution ideas:
-cap the salaries of executives who beg for government money

Revolutionary thinking there Alex.
-Nothing motivates corporate accountability like being forced to party on a smaller corporate funded Yacht than the one your competitor is partying on.
-Nothing communicates that any given company absorbs the full risk of its failures by flying their associates around in a Challenger-350 instead of a GulfStream-700

I have an idea:
all CEOs that make “stupid decisions” should be forced to live in slightly more modest mansion in the immediate fiscal years after a profit loss or blown delivery deadline. Maybe moving your wife and two kids into a 10 bedroom mansion instead of a 20 bedroom mansion will get them back on the road to fiscal responsibility.
That’ll teach them.

Just don’t touch HIS paycheck – because HIS company doesn’t make stupid mistakes. When HIS company has a kerfuffle the respons is always the classic "we are just misunderstood geniuses"

I just can’t get past this pricks commentary on the plight of the poor…
"If you’re poor and you’re wrong, you go to prison or you die"

The lack of awareness is bad enough – but these mother fuckers say this kind of shit with the confidence of an astronomer that just discovered a new comet.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are all guilty of "outsourcing" our stupidity and incompetent business acumen to the poor that are trapped by systemic inequality.
If only we could figure out how to stop outsourcing stupidity and punishing poor people.
…maybe those mother fuckers at Palantir could develop an algorithm that solves poverty
…as long as it doesn’t cut into their profit margin

Wealthy hypocrites like this want us to believe that they Palantir is the Robin Hood of the military industrial complex - stealing from the rich (data) and giving to the poor (governments). The problem is, they are serving the wrong demographic – and clearly, in this paradigm, Robin Hood charges a hefty consulting fee.
His speech is a masterclass in corporate self-righteousness. He paints himself a the hero (that nobody asked for) and then he points out society’s flaws, while conveniently sidestepping his own company’s role in perpetuating them.

At least he’s honest about one thing:
Poor people really do pay the price – while rich people like him sit in judgement – consequence free.



Happy Holidays Alex
 
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Palantir is so deeply embedded with the CIA and such a cesspool of intel gathering and cybersecurity, if it advocated for curing cancer, I'd choose cancer. They exist for the CIA to bypass those pesky laws about collecting against American citizens.

When I was overseas they approached one of our guys about a job. He refused once he learned what they did and the job was basically spying on the Emirati gov't. Palantir's only gotten worse.
 
Remember in the 90s when electronic eavesdropping became the standard? Human contacts were no longer needed because we could listen in or point a satellite at anything on earth we wanted. Future wars could be averted, crises stopped before attacks ever got off the ground. Man that was an awesome era. We need to get back to that.
 
Remember in the 90s when electronic eavesdropping became the standard? Human contacts were no longer needed because we could listen in or point a satellite at anything on earth we wanted. Future wars could be averted, crises stopped before attacks ever got off the ground. Man that was an awesome era. We need to get back to that.

Jimmy Carter thought that would work in the 70's. It was a disaster.
 
I mean... I think he's right. As in, 100% right. About all of it.

The poor and/or powerless always pay the price for the consequence-free decision-making of the rich. Look at the politics that are (or will be) fucking up our country right now, things like open borders, endless wars, gun control, transgenderism, defund the police, etc. Those are rich people programs, that negatively affect anyone who's not wealthy. The rich guy's daughter still goes to a good college if that boy cosplaying being a girl snags the girl's track scholarship. Children of powerful people seldom, if ever, gets killed in a war. An increase in crime doesn't affect people as much when they live in a closed community, work in a secured area, and can hire private security.

He's also right about the bailouts. Capitalism has winners and losers, and rewards people who make good decisions and punishes (or it should) those who don't. No private enterprise should ever be "too big to fail." No bailouts. Certainly no massive profit-taking after the .gov floated you millions in taxpayer money, at least not until you've paid back every penny.

I used Palantir downrange, because it worked better than the .gov system we were saddled with. The .com typically outperforms .gov, because the profit motive is there. I'm fine with Palantir making a bazillion dollars, and I hope they continue to do so. I see no hypocrisy in someone inside the system recognizing the nature of the system.
 
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LIke I said - folks are entitled to the fruits of their labor - I'm just tired of hearing billionaires that make their money off of the government preaching at us about the system. I've used their stuff too - which is all the more reason why I don't care to be preached to by billionaires that seem to be working for the government while using the poor as a stage prop.

His company helped build the system he is preaching about.
His company helps sustain the system he is preaching to us about.
His company could almost certainly do something that benefitted society as much as it benefits the government.
But they don't.
They wont.

Beyond that - lobbying for a contract is the same thing to me as begging the government for money.
My money.
Your money.
Our money.
Then they put it in tax shelters that most of us can't really exploit.
Then they preach to us.
Then the wonder why mainstream citizens don't trust them.
I don't trust them.
I don't them because I used work for the same government that they do.
...and we are NOT to be trusted

People can be trusted. Governments cannot.
 
Palantir is so deeply embedded with the CIA and such a cesspool of intel gathering and cybersecurity, if it advocated for curing cancer, I'd choose cancer. They exist for the CIA to bypass those pesky laws about collecting against American citizens.

When I was overseas they approached one of our guys about a job. He refused once he learned what they did and the job was basically spying on the Emirati gov't. Palantir's only gotten worse.

you mean the DOW and SOCOM.. They keep buying into it since all the DCGS-SOF ideas have failed completely with endless spending on stuff like fademist.. in the end, you can't really beat the current palantir offering for tactical/operational level CIP/COP stuff. Gaia and the rest of the Foundry stuff just works.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a tool I've ever enjoyed using, but there is definitely a place for it. Suggesting it's CIA because of the IQT is pretty shallow considering things like google earth and databricks.. and both of those are way more ubiquitous in the IC
 
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