Why do you want to carve out space to make this okay? What makes you want to say “oh but it’s just...”. It’s wrong for the government to have that data and it’s wrong for Palantir to help them use it. There is so much blame to go around, and Palantir deserves a lot of it.
At some point things will start to get prohibitively expensive. There will never be a world where 10 billion people live like Americans. And there will probably start to be environmentally minded sabotage of industry at some point. Hopefully soon.
US foreign policy has obviously always been very far from perfect, but this kind of equivocation is destructive and pointlessly cynical. Russia and China aspire to nothing. Even if we fail them most of the time, at least the US has ideals. If you were given the chance to live in the US vs one of the other “empires” would you really choose somewhere else? For all our faults, you know the answer is no.
No, I think I will continue to point and laugh at idiots on this site. It’s fun and easy because everyone here thinks VERY highly of themselves. For proof see your own comment.
Yeah, I find sales and marketing to be distasteful in general, and casting human relationships into that mold turns something beautiful about life into a hollow commodity. I have strong desires for community, and personal meaning, so I am happy to have deeper relationships even if it means they are fewer in number. It also feels to me that the urge to pursue a large volume of experiences in this gamified way is an attempt at finding validation without being vulnerable, which is ultimately self-defeating. But hey, if it makes you happy then who am I to say anything. But that perspective is why I don’t understand the appeal.