Comments by "Major Moolah" (@majormoolah5056) on "What is a technopolar world? | Ian Bremmer on AI" video.

  1. Academics love these imaginary threshold. "Last Saturday, a new era began." But we have seen the symbiotic relationship between the tech elites and political elites for decades now. Clinton slashed regulation and pumped in public money into the rising tech sector and used all his power to get them their oligopoly. Obama's security state could not have existed without the extensive support of the tech companies. And in the last 15 years, this relationship has only deepened. There was extensive social media suppression against Trump in the last election. Think what you will of Trump, that is an unhealthy relationship. But is this something new somehow? US domestic politics has been a plutocracy for decades now. Back when Clinton was working on NATO expansion, Lockheed Martin was a part of the committee! That is not a joke either, that is what literally happened. Lockheed wanted to sell weapons to the former Warsaw Pact countries and they got what they wanted. The biggest reasons for the Ukraine War was getting the Europeans to buy more US weapons and US energy and then snatch up European manufacturing when Germany in particular loses its ability to compete. You can go even further back to Smedley Butler, the war hero who in later life became a peace activist after he realised that he had been a "a gangster for capitalism." Just look at Big Pharma and Biden. Biden is desperately trying to negotiate to get medicine prices down a bit, that is literally the extent of his power and even this is too much for him. The corporate elites want no taxes and no regulation and they want US foreign policy to advance their interests abroad. And they are getting everything they want. Big Tech is not different in any meaningful way. The mistake Ian is making that he thinks developing technology will somehow make you separate from existing culture and power structures. And that is nonsense. Big Tech leaders are part of the ruling elite and that is where they get their views from. Amazon, Uber, Facebook and others increase their profits with suppressing the labour movement and coordinating labour practices. 60% of the middle-class Americans' wages go now to rent. And why is that? Because these oligopolies are buying up all the residential real estate. Corporate profits have absolutely skyrocketed during this inflation and everything else, and even the President is helpless. What scares me as a European is that we know full well how much USA interferes in elections and domestic policy of everyone they can. We will very likely see USA using their new AI tools and their incestuous relationship with Big Tech to replace actual democracy with US foreign policy objectives. The United States has a plutocratic domestic policy and an authoritarian foreign policy. So as the US democracy becomes more and more dysfunctional and US loses more and more of their economic and technological edge... they will increase their oppression of their remaining allies. Look at Australia and how the Taiwanese War is being sold to them. We will see more of this and even less of any regulation or even taxation of big business. God only knows why Ian is not speaking out about any of this. Maybe the Eurasia Group is financed by the same polluted money that finances all the think tanks that simply produce supremacist propaganda.
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