Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Two Stories from Mis-Fortune


Corporate Chiefs scream regularly "we need predictability", "show us the rules" as they get giant tax breaks, direct government subsidies and loan guarantees.  That does not apply to everyday people.

Many TechGods have their roots in Ayn Rand and consider themselves libertarian, minimal government, maximum freedom.  Their companies do the very opposite, providing tech services to an intrusive federal government for significant revenues (dollar sums).
“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.” -Ayn Rand
Google's CEO wants everyday people to adapt to the rapidly changing world around them.  How?  Everyday people can't get laws to protect their kids from harmful social media or brain rotting AI.  Everyday people can't tell the difference between a person online and a bot, as those distinctions are not required.  

Google's founder Eric Schmidt coached Stanford MBA students to violate intellectual property law in creating their own AI company. 
 

Everyday people get to do disruption while billionaire cheats go the White House and get laws passed to their personal economic advantage. 

OpenAI's Sam Altman has a service that proves you are human.  He just needs your biometrics and permission.  World ID comes with its own currency (which applications use to pay for services).  
From an application’s perspective, there will only be one World ID fee – the sum of the credential fee and the protocol fee. The World ID fee will be charged when an application (identified via a unique app id) requests a World ID proof.
These pinheads need to remember one thing about everyday people.  We vote.


TechGods, CryptoBros, private equity underwriters (PEU), family offices, sovereign wealth funds and other corporates have had their way for decades.  They have taken and taken and taken.

When this cabal removes the game plan for surviving day to day, a decent paying job, they have gone too far.  

Trump II wants everything scorched for the sheer joy he gets in watching things burn and people harmed.  The Reds in Congress kow-tow to their Creep in the White House.  The Blues are beholden to the Corporate class (as are the Reds when Trump II is not twisting their nuts in a vise for his viewing pleasure).  

The people doing the harm (TechGods and PEUs) are facilitated by our political system and together they give not a sodden flip about everyday people.  Society knows as TechGods increasingly show up as villains in movies and television shows.

Independent voters have gotten the message.  The political Red team is as popular as smallpox, which could well make a comeback under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Trump II.  

Here is my take as to what Sundar Pichai meant:
"We, as in us TechGods" will have to work through social disruption.  Those everyday people will have to un-employ their way through social disruption.  
Thanks, Google CEO.  Next time, stick a sock in it.  It likely tastes better than those "AI wipes."