weilunion says:
You can look at this Bloomberg site to see how many companies Palentir owns.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
That was two years ago.
Peter Thiel, the original owner and former Paypal mobster, is himself a fascist who has argued that democracy is outdated and women should not be allowed to vote.
He even agreed to speak at a fascist gathering in 2016 but canceled after he was outted.
https://www.towleroad.com/2016/07/peter-thiel-fascist/
The real issue here is how late stage tans-national capitalism has now entered the repressive ‘accumulation of capital’ stage and thus given rise to the ‘nocturnal eye’ or repressive police state. Palentir is simply one of many repressive companies hired out as cyber-Pinkertons.
In order to head off global and national stagflation, or the actual death of the capitalist economy, transnational corporations must not only find a new source for investment (most of the world has no money now to support a national capitalist system) and, as importantly, to control the ‘surplus’ labor’ that is now a result of AI, transnational capitalism and financial capitalism.
The global economy cannot absorb the ‘output’ from capitalist production and distribution as people are broke and credit is maxed out. The demand for products falls, social protests rise and capitalists fear expropriation.
To avoid the pesky problems of social movements, organized labor, migration etc. it is best to invest in ‘repressive’ measures’ and develop ‘companies’ such as Palentir in order to keep the hoi poloi from organizing.
ERik Prince and Frontier Resources and Services is one such repressive entity.
This is certainly now the stage of capitalism we find ourselves in: nation states are mired within a global economy controlled by transnational corporations headed for stagflation and falling rate of profit. They cannot getout of the whirlpool of globalization and debt.
23 million people work globally in mercenary armies. This, and privatized detention, is increasingly rising as is rising surplus labor, or people who will never work.
And the number is growing.
Take a look at the adds for mercenaries:
http://www.mercenaryjobs.org/private-military-companies.html
For more about the repressive transnational police state, you can see a recent Youtube about this stage of repressive accumulation and the global police state:
https://blubrry.com/theanalysisnews/68278097/the-global-police-state?sbe=1
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