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Not working for any of them but given everything else equal, I'd pick Meta over Palantir under any circumstance, if I were to work for one of them.
by can16358p 1y ago
Not working for any of them but given everything else equal, I'd pick Meta over Palantir under any circumstance, if I were to work for one of them.
- herbst 1y agoThat's the most American comment. Inventing a 2 party idea when there is none and justify their positions based on that.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoFalse 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.
- can16358p 1y agoI'm not American but... That's why I explicitly stated if I were to work for one of them. As in a hypothetical scenario where someone pointed a gun at me and told me to pick one of them to work for. Otherwise there many better and worse options.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI take it your answer then is, "There are worse places you could be working."
- can16358p 1y agoSure there are worse and there are better options than both. I just relatively compared the two companies in context in my opinion.
- qweiopqweiop 1y agoI'm curious, why Palantir as worse? As I understand it they are basically well very built data pipelines + dashboards + marketing. See here for example: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/ https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/ Not try to defending them, but I do believe Meta is doing much more harm, purely based on Instagram for children.
- JohnFen 1y agoPalantir'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.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoNot 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.
- computerdork 1y agowhy are people down voting this? this person is asking a question. Man, hackernews is become so judgemental lately.
- rbanffy 1y agoSure. 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?
- burnt-resistor 1y agoIt's a false and unnecessary choice. Work somewhere else. There are always options.
- rbanffy 1y agoThat’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?
- can16358p 1y agoThat was just a thought experiment for comparison. Of course there are much more ethical places to work at.
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