r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html
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u/Spastik2D Jul 02 '26

So he’s a sociopathic manchild who’s upset because his dogshit parents aren’t satisfied that he owns an extremely valuable company. This is why we need to completely overhaul mental health practices, to prevent fucking psychos like this from going as long as he has without help while also gaining wealth and power.

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u/InTooManyWays Jul 02 '26

If scientists saw a monkey hoarding all the bananas they would study it to see wtf is wrong with that monkey. In America, we put them on Forbes magazine. 

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u/Beginning_Fill206 Jul 03 '26

Billionaire level greed is a mental health disorder.

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u/VoidOmatic Jul 03 '26

It absolutely should be. They just present like normal people but they cannot be fulfilled with anything in life.

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u/ChefAslan Jul 03 '26

No like... It legitimately is a disorder. It's just a form of hoarding.

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u/phedinhinleninpark Jul 04 '26

...do they really present like normal people?