That's human history. The wealth gets pulled towards a small elite because king, high priest or banker. It reaches a peak and then there is a revolution, the debt records are burned and the land is redistributed. Measures are out in place to prevent wealth concentration and the new elite starts chipping away at the measures. Rinse and repeat.
We know this but always choose to ignore the dynamic.
At this stage, there should be some democrat comedy TV program with guys in dumb and dumber tuxedos spouting the weirdest things about republicans. Things like the Trump signs in the front yard contain a camera and act as a 5G antenna.
It's why critical equipment has a very tight delivery deadline. If it arrives a minute late it's assumed somebody tampered with it along the supply chain and the equipment is rejected.
Usually we get an AI winter, until somebody develops a model that can overcome that limitation of needing more and more data. In this case by having some basic understanding instead of just having a regurgitation engine for example. Of course that model runs into the limit of only having basic understanding, not advanced understanding and again there is an AI winter.
Colonizers found the inhabitants didn't wanted to take part in the colonizer's society as they inhabitants had their own subsistence life. So they decided to tax the land and burned the huts from those that didn't pay tax. So now they inhabitants were forced to borrow money and work in society. That's how things work.
That's normal. The printing press spread scientific knowledge and informed people with newspapers. It also gave us ad riddled glossy magazines and political pamphlets. Same for radio and TV.
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