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Building on Quicksand
The accelerating deployment of AI reveals three critical challenges: our infrastructure is inadequate, monopolization threatens resilience, and we're eliminating entry-level career pathways. But the same maintenance backlogs that companies defer also represent an overlooked opportunity—if we choose to use AI to address them rather than eliminate the workers who would learn from them.
The New Gilded Age
We've been here before. At the end of the 19th century, large industrial corporations captured key economic sectors and the political systems meant to regulate them. Today's situation doesn't just rhyme—it replicates the same logic with a modern twist. Instead of conquering Africa, concentrated capital seeks to conquer cyberspace through what Silicon Valley explicitly calls 'blitzscaling'.