Palantir's Soaring Sales: Profiting From Perpetual War
The Financial Times reports Palantir's surging sales outlook for 2025, buoyed by increased deals with 'companies and the US government.' This conveniently overlooks that Palantir’s primary market is military and intelligence contracts, including directly with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, providing AI systems crucial for targeting. One might wonder if human suffering is simply a 'strong
quarterly growth' metric for Peter Thiel's enterprise. While humanitarian organizations struggle to fund basic needs in conflict zones, this 'startup' founded by a PayPal billionaire, whose products facilitate real-time battlefield intelligence often implicated in civilian casualties, reaps record profits. Apparently, the 'free market' has a special affinity for algorithmic violence. How many more
future 'sales outlooks' will be directly tied to new or escalating global crises, one wonders?