Everything here
Eight so far, grouped by what they are actually about. More go up whenever something else stops adding up.
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Bailouts, subsidies, and the double standard that decides whose risk the public covers.
A single mother on assistance gets audited, drug-tested and told she is a drain on the treasury. A bank that bet the house on derivatives gets trillions at zero interest and no questions. Same treasury, opposite rules — and only one of them is called dependency.
Money only has value while it moves. Squeeze the people who actually spend it and the whole machine seizes up — starting with the market you were selling to. Henry Ford worked this out a century ago; the current lot have decided it no longer applies to them.
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Walls, wealth and patents — and the belief that any of them keep the rest of the world out.
A crashing app used to be something you put up with. Now it is an invitation to build your own replacement, with the exact features you want and none of the bloat. You cannot keep people in a subscription cage once they hold the keys to build their own doors.
Private islands, bunkers, biometric gates, armed patrols. The perimeter is the oldest fantasy money can buy, and it has never once held. The guard at the gate shops in the same supermarket as everyone else, and a drought has never stopped at a property line.
Big Tech scraped everything to train its models — including the blueprints of its own products. Now that people are using those same models to build their own tools, the companies that preached disruption want guardrails. You cannot sue a billion people for writing software on their own computers.
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Automation, AI, and what we hand over to them — the work, and the thinking.
Empires rarely fall to invasion. They rot quietly, from comfort. We have handed our remembering to search engines, our attention to feeds built on outrage, and now our thinking to AI — and optimised every system for efficiency until there was no resilience left anywhere in it.
Silicon Valley promises that machines will do the work and abundance will flow. Nobody at the top seems to have noticed the contradiction sitting in the middle of the pitch: workers and consumers are the same people. Eliminate the worker and you eliminate the customer.
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Surveillance, control, and money that arrives with conditions attached.
The people building the surveillance machine think it is a substitute for a fair society. It isn’t — it is a pressure gauge. Fear works as a tool of control right up until people have already lost everything, at which point it stops working at all.