(and thank you for the link)

The privatizer pirates will have us paying a monthly subscriber fee just to stay alive

You're right. Along with toll roads, no public libraries, no public schools, no 401k's, no disaster relief,
two-tiered law enforcement (which we already have), no voting rights, and only corporate run hospitals, health services, prisons, courts -- including a corporate SCOTUS majority, which we already have -- no habeas corpus, no due process, no pro bono legal representation, an Article 5 Convention of the States that amends the US Constitution to require a 2/3 vote by voters for any new law in all 50 states (19 of the required 34 states have already signed onto this); and only liberty and justice for the wealthiest.

Rather they are actively working towards our death because they see most of us as useless eaters. Alex Karp CEO of Palintir has publicly stated thar he wants to turn "surplus humans" into biofuel.

While his fellow oligarchs aren't that blunt, there is the general sense that with AI taking over more and more jobs, there is no need for so many redundant humans. They don't want to pay for unemployment insurance, and certainly don't want us to have a universal basic income, so their solution is for them to make it easier and quicker for us just to die already

Karp's a scarier dude than Thiel, imo.
None of them believe themselves to be bad guys. But they are.
Part of their banality of evil is that other oligarchs have held for a long time that de-population is needed. But not their own better behavior. "Love your neighbor as yourself" is too much for them to bother with.

Also been reading Cory Doctorow's open commons blog posts.

Doctorow says that Musk calls people NPC's -- non-player characters ...
"... when you are seeing like a billionaire, that's how people appear to you: as things... Seeing like a billionaire is when you view people as aggregated masses without any real interiority or will. Hence "high agency," the term that people who aspire to extreme wealth and power use to describe themselves. If the elite are high agency, then it follows that the masses are low agency...

It's not just Musk who views people this way. Mark Zuckerberg has been treating people as things for his entire life, ever since he started Facebook in his dorm-room so that he could nonconsensually rate the fuckability of his fellow Harvard undergrads. In Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams' whistleblower memoir of her time as a top FB exec, we get a picture of Zuck as someone who just doesn't think that other people are real enough to matter:..

Sam Altman, another person who sees like a billionaire, and wants to replace our friends with chatbots, claims that humanity is nothing more than a "stochastic parrot" – a statistical autocompleting program that does not truly understand or think: ...

Billionaires have to be ... at least selective solipsists, who don't really believe in the humanity of the people who create their wealth and whom they wield their power over.
This has always been clear, but the idea that we can replace our social connections with chatbots erases any doubt.

Billionaires just don't think we're real. "

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/18/seeing-like-a-billionaire/#npcs

Whatever rationalizations they reveal, they are still a part of death cult capitalist fascism. There are good oligarchs and bad oligarchs, but I'm with Bernie -- humans deserve to live because they are born -- and we in America shouldn't have to be the only ones to sort them out.

First, though, I'll have to ask you for a link for your claim... because I fact checked it and find nothing.
Google's DeepMind says: "Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has never publicly stated that he wants to turn "surplus humans" into biofuel. There is no record of him making such a statement. The claim appears to be a fabrication.

While Karp is known for making controversial and provocative statements, they have focused on other topics:

AI and societal upheaval: Karp has warned that if the technology industry is not careful, AI could lead to "deep societal upheavals," particularly by displacing entry-level jobs and disrupting the economy.
Western superiority and geopolitical competition: He has been vocal about his view that the West has a "superior way of living" and must win the global AI and technology race against adversaries like China and Russia.
Support for defense and intelligence work: He has consistently defended Palantir's work with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, arguing that tech companies have an obligation to support national security.

But I was also wrong about him being a bad guy. He's terribly mistaken that a technological republic should even exist, which makes him a smart bad guy.

I've finished The Technological Republic. To the good, he promotes Western values in the first half of his book. But then from Chapter 15 to the end, he loses that argument when in suggesting that changing a civilian government could use the Palantir business model. Those chapters are full of
-- mis-defined terms,
-- getting the political facts of history wrong,
-- telling stories of wealthy but compromised people to justify "more room for error" in keeping them in government,
-- using at last seven false equivalencies, then overall,
-- blaming The Left for where the country is at.
One overall theme is that the wealthy (tho' he's not a fan of Musk's destructions) have a greater stake in government and know best about how to get "good" outcomes. Every thinking humanist should read him and keep an eye on him, but no thinking humanist should take this man seriously.

If you're thinking of reading Karp, just read this book review -- different from my take, but mine is every bit as logical and more concrete in detecting Karp's logic flaws -- and save your money.

https://archive.ph/8kuW1

Thank you for your post. You got me reading another tech treatise.