Hopefully they will bring each other down and the whole experiment will fall in on itself.

There will be so many pieces to pick up and many decades of repair for the citizens of this country.

the data and information. The basic assumption of any economic model is "given perfect information" people will behave in certain ways. We'll if you have to pay for all your information, or pay to play.. the economic models fail. Information to make the best decisions and/or access is not available to all. Poverty grows.

https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/02/federal-data-is-disappearing/

I’d like to see billionaires taxed and regulated out of existence. Or we should go to the French solution.

Capitalism cares for only one thing and begets only more of itself. As AI explodes the billionaire perks of the ruling class will move from things like nice boats and vanity space flights to organ and tissue replacements leaving the rest of us to short lives of brutality and disease so long as we are useful and no more.

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Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at the Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a former Special Agent of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations.

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thank you for recognizing this as an important article, applegrove. I have long believed that inability to hold their interests together will be a significant contributor to their downfall.