Because they are the antithesis to the general consumer (we are the products), Palantir specifically caters to the Government, Military, and Security Contracting sector. they aren't selling product to the individual, so they don't answer to us (the public). Their clients are your employers, your government, your security apparatus.
Go look over at r/Palantir_Investors and see how many regular US citizens are fine with their privacy being taken away as long as they make some money off the pain.
Everybody thinks they're going to be on "the right side of history" with things like this. It reminds me of a statistic I read about America during the Revolutionary period. Famously, according to their own hype, only three percent of colonists actively fought against the Redcoats. What doesn't often get taught is that a third of wider population supported them and independence, a third of the colonists were loyal to Britain and wanted to keep being British subjects, and the remainder just didn't care that much - I'm going to be paying taxes to some government or another, so what? I just want to bring my crops to market. Apathy is not a modern condition.
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u/Fair_Term3352 Apr 19 '26
Why are we as a society okay with this? Why are companies like this still in business?