Wait…are we an oligarchy now?

America was a sold a sci-fi narrative of infinite growth and the technological singularity, to cover the rise of a new oligarchy

It’s the most cliche idea in sci-fi

An all powerful technology corporation

Weyland-Yutani, Omni consumer products, Cyberdyne Systems

X-Corp!

oh…wait…it seems Grok hallucinated some reality into our sci-fi here!

And a promethean tech CEO maniacally set on grasping the powers of the gods

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But this isn’t sci-fi

We’re all living in the 90s straight-to-dvd version

of a future that could have been so much more a-mazing

“A government of the billionaire…