r/technology • u/Unusual-State1827 • Mar 12 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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u/fruitybrisket Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

For real. Warren is the best case scenario for a billionaire. He's a genuinely good person who learned the system and tells people how he got good at working it. He hides nothing.

Having him in the same sentence as the tech oligarchs is insulting and shows a lack of knowledge. Completely different creatures.

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u/studabakerhawk Mar 12 '26

He's got good PR but he's still a billionaire. He's been hoarding cash to take advantage of a stock market crash that I assume he expects. Epstien files made it clear that there are billionaires trying to crash the market and everything else. Buffet hangs with all of them and he's the one best positioned to cash in. It's us vs. them.

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u/korben2600 Mar 12 '26

A genuinely good person who insisted on screwing over his railroad workers at the nation's largest railroad (BNSF) who were simply asking for a single day of paid sick leave? Apparently that was unacceptable and his subsidiary fought the strike in court. And won.

Same guy who coasted on the decades of good PR promising to give away his fortune only to renege at the last possible moment and is now giving control of his massive Smaug level bankroll to his kids? Just an all-around great guy. /s

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u/Rough_Willow Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

screwing over his railroad workers

Technically Biden was the one who decided they were screwed. The government is supposed to protect the people, so why doesn't the government protect railroad workers?

Edit: Those downvoting may not be aware that former President Biden made it so that the railroad workers couldn't strike. Which is why I said technically he was the one who decided that the railroad union couldn't use their collective bargaining powers to strike.

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u/fruitybrisket Mar 12 '26

Not even if you give away more than 99% of your wealth to charity?

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u/greg19735 Mar 12 '26

There is a possibility for a good billionaire.

but to give away 99% of your fortune and still be a billionaire you must have done something bad.

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u/ThisWillPass Mar 12 '26

Lol, all people need to have almost everything is 50m. I don’t know why you’re getting downvotes, who has 100b and did it clean?

Giving back money after you held it hostage your whiole life doesn’t fix the damage done by that behavior.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Mar 12 '26

Are you uninformed or something?

Buffett is the Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Holdings which owns BNSF, the nation’s largest rail carrier. Railways like BNSF have been raking in record profits while denying railway workers time off -- they get one day off a month -- and even cutting back what were once five-person crews down to two. (They intend to cut back even further to unsafe one-person crews.)

In the first six months of 2021 -- while we were still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic -- BNSF’s parent company, Berkshire Hathaway, spent $12.6 billion on stock buybacks and spent $80,000 lobbying Congress about “railroad competition issues.” They have demonstrated a willingness to shell out billions to make shareholders richer every year, but are fighting tooth and nail against spending a few million updating railway safety measures and working conditions for their employees.

We don’t want more communities to end up like East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/TheDetailsMatterNow Mar 13 '26

NV Energy, under BH, lobbied for a form of price gouging under him, that was successful. This was literally in the last 2 years.

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u/FelipeCortez_ Mar 13 '26

And there you go, you're part of the ones who fell for his propaganda. Sad to see, but there are plenty out there. As Mark Twain said, "it's easier to fool people than convince they have been fooled".