And there are, of course, many reasons that a country might want to accept immigrants other than the fact that they could contribute to the economy—like, for instance, believing it a moral imperative to accept people fleeing from political persecution, especially when it was American meddling in foreign affairs that greatly contributed to that instability in the first place. The incoherence was on full display throughout, with strange asides about how, despite his seeming distaste for higher education, he dreams of going back to grad school—but not for the education, just for the “fun.” At one point, he noted that one of the heads of Palantir’s Maven system, an AI tool meant to be used on the battlefield by the US Army, only completed junior college and declared that he probably didn’t even need that. Maybe Karp believes he truly didn’t pick up any skills through university and was not in any way influenced in how to think, communicate, or understand the world, and he would have come out exactly the same as he is now without setting foot in school.
Author: AJ Dellinger
Published at: 2026-01-20 22:15:01
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