To me this seems like any other big gov procurment. Which is bad of course but isn’t anything new. And I fail to see how this leads to authoritarinism especially in Europe. We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary
When I look back there’s several things I find scary. We’ve had better decades, and I didn’t want to go back.
Pointing these things out and running alarm bells is important. That is a systematic recurring problem doesn’t change anything about the problems at hand.
Are you saying “there have been things like this before so we should see it as normal and not do anything about it or point it out”?
I’m no expert, but the issue here seems to be replacing many smaller contracts with one big one for Palantir. I. E., one agenda headed in one dark direction.
I guess the crows are coming home to roost in that the owners of these companies are prepared to use them as leverage (starlink) and also are more comfortable airing some pretty wild views of how they think the world should work (Thiel with his Antichrist obsession, Ellison with his ideas for a surveillance state, The general tech bro Curtis Yarvin worship).
Start joining the dots and it starts becoming hard not to be concerned where this is headed.
To me this seems like any other big gov procurment. Which is bad of course but isn’t anything new. And I fail to see how this leads to authoritarinism especially in Europe. We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.
because calling it authoritarianism makes it sound big and scary… and make sit sound like a battle of good vs evil for all time.
what you are describing… which is simply the routine processes that have gone on for 100s of years in governments… isn’t big and scary.
people like this need to look up the Dutch East India company.
When I look back there’s several things I find scary. We’ve had better decades, and I didn’t want to go back.
Pointing these things out and running alarm bells is important. That is a systematic recurring problem doesn’t change anything about the problems at hand.
Are you saying “there have been things like this before so we should see it as normal and not do anything about it or point it out”?
No, I’m saying people are stupid and ignorant and it’s not some big conspiracy. It’s just business.
I’m no expert, but the issue here seems to be replacing many smaller contracts with one big one for Palantir. I. E., one agenda headed in one dark direction.
But what do I know?
Honestly I don’t know what would be the difference if this was a contract with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP etc. That is democratic stack?
I guess the crows are coming home to roost in that the owners of these companies are prepared to use them as leverage (starlink) and also are more comfortable airing some pretty wild views of how they think the world should work (Thiel with his Antichrist obsession, Ellison with his ideas for a surveillance state, The general tech bro Curtis Yarvin worship).
Start joining the dots and it starts becoming hard not to be concerned where this is headed.
that’s how pretty much all business works though.
as your company grows it’s preferable to have fewer larger providers for services. when you are small you have multiple vendors.
largerly because the vendors that provide extensive services… cater to larger companies, not smaller ones.