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To claim that jostling for the biggest share of federal power and largesse–in a word, greed–magically serves the common good is a convenient cover for an oligarchy masquerading as a “democracy.”

Skills that require time–working with people, building trust, forming relationships, navigating attraction and rejection–do not respond to shortcuts.

Either way AI goes–replacing human labor or failing to meet today’s lofty expectations–the result is the same: an economic Depression.

As systemic risks rise, what matters is the thickness of one’s buffers against bad things happening. Those with wealth, power and privilege have sea walls, the rest of us have crumbling sand castles.