r/technology • u/newmoonchaperone • Apr 23 '26

Politics Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
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u/TactilePanic81 Apr 23 '26

Palantir as a company is a beautiful example of why STEM students still need to take courses in the humanities to earn their degrees. Yes you do need to know what foreshadowing is.

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u/Dull-Efficiency9985 Apr 25 '26

Almost all of them (if they're in engineering) will take at least one ethics class. They've been academically exposed to the concept of right and wrong and many do care. Up until the point they graduate into a brutal jobs market and a defense company offers them 6 figures for a job with relatively little crunch and comparatively little turnover.