False binary choice in one sense, but also living America invariably becomes a Hobson's choice or a Catch-22 between survival and morality. Where I grew up in the SF Bay Area, the income required is $390k/yr to afford a home mortgage.. and there are very few ethical and legal / productive ways to make that much money working as an employee. It's basically not possible without starting a business, becoming a criminal, and/or serving immoral businesses in war, financial trickery, or megacorps.

I'm not American but... That's why I explicitly stated if I were to work for one of them.

As in a hypothetical scenario where someone pointed a gun at me and told me to pick one of them to work for.

Otherwise there many better and worse options.

Sure there are worse and there are better options than both.

I just relatively compared the two companies in context in my opinion.

That was just a thought experiment for comparison.

Of course there are much more ethical places to work at.

It's a false and unnecessary choice. Work somewhere else. There are always options.

Palantir's entire purpose for existence is to implement the Total Information Awareness program that US citizens rejected. They're domestic spies.

Are they worse than Meta? I don't know, a strong argument can be made that both organizations are very harmful and there's no point in trying to rank which is worse.

why are people down voting this? this person is asking a question. Man, hackernews is become so judgemental lately.