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.
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perishthethought@piefed.social 1 week agoI’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?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
majster@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Honestly I don’t know what would be the difference if this was a contract with Oracle, Microsoft, SAP etc. That is democratic stack?
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’d be concerned regardless of the companies they partner with, or if it’s completely government controlled.
The problem is the surveillance itself. It stated decades ago, accelerated under Bush, and has expanded with each administration since.
majster@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
That is true that these aren’t faceless corpos but behind there are men who are out in public.