You can only make that claim for so long. These aren’t Amazon deliver drivers we’re talking about. The developers and higher ups at Palantir could easily find another job somewhere else.
The job market in tech is not good right now, so they may not. I have a friend who is a dev and was getting heavily recruited by Palantir because he had a clearance already. The money was really good, and he was at the cusp of taking the job because he had been ghosted by other companies for months and only had a handful of interviews after being laid off six-ish months ago. Luckily, another place gave him an offer for a bit lower compensation, which he took. If that other place didn’t come through, though, I think he would have gone with Palantir so that he could get some income.
ETA: That said, Palantir is evil, and my friend was in that position because of the BS that is the US economic system, which is perpetuated by the people at Palantir.
There’s also the function of needing a job to survive and cognitive dissonance.
I.e. “I’m not killing anyone I just do xyz and then other people use it to do bad things, not my responsibility”
It is lying to themselves, but that’s how it happens
I used to write unethical software for marketing men. Now I don’t.
I’ve straight up told recruiters I don’t want to contribute to the brown skeleton factory.
I did that at the cost to my employment options.
Its really, really hard to go work for Evil Inc and not realise you’re a bad person.
You can only make that claim for so long. These aren’t Amazon deliver drivers we’re talking about. The developers and higher ups at Palantir could easily find another job somewhere else.
The job market in tech is not good right now, so they may not. I have a friend who is a dev and was getting heavily recruited by Palantir because he had a clearance already. The money was really good, and he was at the cusp of taking the job because he had been ghosted by other companies for months and only had a handful of interviews after being laid off six-ish months ago. Luckily, another place gave him an offer for a bit lower compensation, which he took. If that other place didn’t come through, though, I think he would have gone with Palantir so that he could get some income.
ETA: That said, Palantir is evil, and my friend was in that position because of the BS that is the US economic system, which is perpetuated by the people at Palantir.