So, because 1% of the biggest investors get ahead of their skis and make MASSIVE bets on: A) the idea that AI is ready for prime time (speculative) and: B) the precept that if we drive value high enough Washington won’t have the stones to act, less they pop a bubble (eg 2007).

We now are expected to just accept electricity and water and life quality taxes so that that same 1% can drive our national economy into the ground.

Nope. No thanks Larry. 1932 all over again.

Like Louis Winthorpe III in Trading Places or Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities?

Real photos taken today of mostly peaceful protests in France 🇵🇸

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