My opinion is that if these guys are still running this gear, they already have a strategy in place (no matter how flawed) and would likely retire before throwing money at something they consider a non problem.

Good luck with the idea. It likely is a tiny niche market with customisation for every customer and given they are normally hardware constrained AI may not be much of a help.

All of them have no money as well.

Palantir could decline to build this and so could everybody.

If somebody proposed to you that you could have a lucrative contract in exchange for an intrusive system that provides a bedrock for authoritarianism, you are arguing it’s perfectly ok because if not you, somebody else will and that makes it OK.

It doesn’t.

Palantir were in no way obliged or coerced into making an evil thing, they just decided being evil for money was ok.

It’s an evil service and no matter who requests it or supplies it, doing so is an evil act.

Now your customer has two problems instead of just one.

Yet here we are 50 years later suffering booms and busts just like before. Nobody seems to want to acknowledge the failure of 50 years of industrialisation destruction that in hindsight was the inevitable outcome of open trade and the retreat of governments.

To answer the question, yes I think there are other options and trade barriers need to be part of that conversation.

Using interest rates for this kind of inflation is guaranteed to cause a recession.

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