Long gone is the cliché of the optimistic tech guy in flip-flops and a ratty old hoodie. The tech industry is now seen as the locus of unchecked power, making the men who work in it a whole lot harder to fancy.
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Long gone is the cliché of the optimistic tech guy in flip-flops and a ratty old hoodie. The tech industry is now seen as the locus of unchecked power, making the men who work in it a whole lot harder to fancy.
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Flirting with a woman at a Manhattan bar, 23-year-old Gary explains why he took an engineering job at Palantir. The $250,000 salary, he says, will help him chip away at his parents’ mounting medical bills.
Gary wasn’t met with sympathy. Medical debt, the woman told him, was “not an excuse to work somewhere like that,” referring to Palantir’s controversial work with governments including the US and Israel, which use its surveillance tools for law enforcement and military operations.
Since joining the tech company in 2025, Gary has noticed that naming his employer prompts brutal reactions from prospective paramours. One woman, he says, called him the devil; another asked how he lives with himself. www.wired.com/story/tech-b...