Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

ZeroGravitas

> If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best college educated woman, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -- LBJ remixed by AI

amadeuspagel

I'm not sure why I clicked on this article. I admit I expected something misleading, but at least about democratic as in "democratically elected". But this isn't even about "disrupting" the power of the democratic party, but rather about changing the relative value of different types of work, increasing that of blue collar work and lowering that of white collar work. The quiet part out loud, indeed.

0xDEFACED

does anyone have a link to the full news segment? it's not clear to me from the clip in the link that he's talking about Palantir; he makes multiple references to "this technology" without ever clarifying what "this" is. sounds to me like he's talking more about AI disruption at large

SilverBirch

I'm always a little surprised at how these Tech CEOs are willing to go on TV and just spout nonsense. Firstly, 40% of college educated white women voted for Trump at the last election. Secondly, isn't the entire theory of Trump's support amongst working class voters an appeal to economic populism due to an erosion of their economic position? Aren't you literally describing a process that last time lead to a massive political shift in favour of those who were negatively economically impacted? Oh and you think all the white collar workers are going to lose their jobs, but you don't think that's just directly going to cause a recession that wipes out blue collar republican jobs? It's difficult to (a) see how he can say this having given any real thought at all and (b) understand why he's going to on news interviews and winging it.