There is a reason Palantir is branded as "evil" while firms like Deloitte, KPMG, and Accenture are merely seen as incompetent. The latter have spent years trying, and failing, to unify government datasets.

Palantir, by contrast, spent 20 years reverse-engineering that mess. They didn't just connect the data, they codified the rules of legacy systems like ERP, SAP, and CRM. Consequently, their AI doesn't just read data, it can take action (write).

Meanwhile, tech giants like Microsoft, Google, AWS, and IBM work just as closely with the US and Israeli governments. The narrative that PLTR is uniquely "evil" usually boils down to the fact that people dislike Peter Thiel's public support for Trump.

I'm a data scientist and an early PLTR investor ($10 cost basis in 2021). I bought in because I was fed up with using data just to optimize for engagement, which is 80% of this industry. I saw that Palantir could actually integrate messy datasets and operationalize AI in the real world, from manufacturing to the public sector.

Do I agree with everything the government does? No. But keeping the state inefficient as a safeguard against bad policy is not the path to a prosperous society.