False binary choice in one sense, but also living America invariably becomes a Hobson's choice or a Catch-22 between survival and morality. Where I grew up in the SF Bay Area, the income required is $390k/yr to afford a home mortgage.. and there are very few ethical and legal / productive ways to make that much money working as an employee. It's basically not possible without starting a business, becoming a criminal, and/or serving immoral businesses in war, financial trickery, or megacorps.
Sure. Between Meta and DOGE or the ICE, Meta seems the lesser evil. OTOH, why work for someone evil at all? Aren’t enough jobs out there with ethical organisations that prioritise, or otherwise favour, common good?
That’s true. I’m facing exactly this issue - I have some less than nice orgs trying to hire me, but I politely turn down the recruiters without disclosing my reasons. They are just doing their jobs as best as they can and I won’t judge them for that.
I can say, however, that’s not the best decision from a financial standpoint, but what is the value of morality if you are not willing to sacrifice something for it?
Palantir's entire purpose for existence is to implement the Total Information Awareness program that US citizens rejected. They're domestic spies.
Are they worse than Meta? I don't know, a strong argument can be made that both organizations are very harmful and there's no point in trying to rank which is worse.
Not much worse. I would wager that governments around the world buy data from data brokers and from Meta to be processed with Palantir to target journalists, protesters, political opponents, and random innocent people inadvertently between deliberate intention and sketchy AI correlation without real evidence.
