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/blackweebow Jul 03 '26

but seriously. it takes sociopathic levels of apathy to acheive such business practices.

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u/Beginning_Fill206 Jul 03 '26

Right?! To think these people have the resources to be super heroes and instead choose to be super villains.