Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Unregulated Monopoly, Power, and Surveillance-Capitalism
They are the logical endpoint of letting tech giants govern themselves.|×Make America Grow Again | Episode 9
How five unelected billionaires own your data, your thoughts, your elections, and now the future of intelligence itself, while we scroll like lobotomized lab rats calling it “progress.” Picture this…
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You wake up in the morning, and before you leven piss, you grab that little rectangle of glowing doom.
It already knows you overslept because it tracked your toss and turn nightmare about the rent. It knows you’re stressed because your heart rate spiked when you read that news notification it pushed to you at 3 a.m. It knows what porn you watched last night, what job you’re secretly applying for, what medical symptom you googled at 2:47 a.m. and never told a soul.
And now it’s getting smart enough to finish your sentences, generate your voice, fake your face, and maybe one day decide you’re obsolete.
And we thank it.
We say, “Hey Google, play my depression playlist.”
We say, “Siri, remind me I’m a failure at 9 a.m. every day.”
We let five companies, five, hoover up every click, every whisper, every heartbeat, and turn it into the most profitable surveillance empire in human history.
And the punchline?
We’re volunteering.
We’re paying for the privilege.
We’re defending it like it’s freedom.
This isn’t science fiction. This is Tuesday. This is now. And if we don’t slam the brakes, tomorrow the joke’s on the species.
The Magnificent 7 now dwarf entire economies. One bad algorithm, one unchecked merger, and growth isn’t just stalled, it’s owned.
Thesis Time
America doesn’t have a tech problem. It has a monopoly protection racket dressed up as innovation, now supercharged by unregulated AI that could end jobs, truth, democracy, or all of the above.
Real privacy shields, real antitrust hammers, and real AI guardrails aren’t anti progress. They are the only way to keep a handful of Silicon Valley overlords from turning the future into their private casino.
Let’s rip the Band Aid off.
The One Number That Should Wake You Up Screaming
The “Magnificent Seven” tech giants are worth over $18 trillion combined as of January 2026. That’s more than the GDP of every country except the United States and China.
Google still owns roughly 91 percent of global search.
Amazon runs the mall, the cloud, and the delivery trucks.
Meta owns your social life.
Apple owns the garden.
Microsoft owns the office.
NVIDIA owns the chips powering the AI boom.
Tesla wants the roads.
And AI?
They own that too.
The same handful control the models, the data centers, the training data stolen from all of us, and the future.
Google doesn’t compete. It dominates. One company decides what the world “knows.”
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We’re not just addicted. We’re livestock.
And now the farmers are building gods in their basements, gods trained on our data, funded by our attention, and answerable to exactly no one.
Both parties are bought and paid for.
Democrats haul CEOs in for performative grillings, then beg for campaign cash and algorithmic favors. Republicans scream “free speech” while taking the same money and doing nothing about the actual power.
And now, on Inauguration Day 2026, President Trump, just hours into his second term, revokes Biden’s AI safety executive order and signs a new one “removing barriers to American leadership in AI.”
Translation: no more pesky safety testing, no more red tape, states can’t even try to regulate.
He called it “big and beautiful” deregulation for innovation.
Beautiful for whom?
The overlords.
Dangerous for everyone else.
“Big beautiful deregulation.” Sounds familiar. Feels like handing the nuclear codes to teenagers who think safety is for losers.
The Real Problem
Unregulated AI Supercharging Unchecked Monopoly
These companies aren’t just too big to fail. They’re too big to control. And AI is their steroid shot.
Deepfakes already fool banks, voters, and grandmas. By 2026, experts warn unregulated models could generate undetectable disinformation at scale, rig elections, tank markets, or blackmail anyone with a smartphone.
This isn’t coming. It’s here.
Job destruction is already happening. AI is automating white collar work faster than factories ever did blue collar. Millions displaced. Wages crushed. Inequality exploding.
Bias is baked in. Models trained on internet sludge regurgitate racism, sexism, and conspiracy at scale.
And the one nobody wants to say out loud:
Existential risk.
Superintelligent systems with no off switch, no alignment to human values, optimized for goals we didn’t fully understand.
Experts from UC Berkeley to the Center for AI Safety are screaming that without governance, we’re playing Russian roulette with the species.
We’re building something smarter than us and telling it to go fast and break things.
Surveillance Capitalism on Steroids
Your data isn’t just sold for ads anymore. It’s the fuel for AI that predicts and manipulates your every move.
Every click feeds the beast. Every secret trains the next model.
Antitrust Isn’t Optional
It’s Survival
We broke up Standard Oil.
We broke up AT&T.
We grew because of it.
History rhymed once. Time to make it rhyme again.
Today we let five companies own the digital pipes, the refineries, and the future of intelligence.
Innovation dies. Startups get buried. Power concentrates. Growth stalls.
Getting There
Real Fixes, Not Theater
Federal Privacy Law with Teeth
Data as property. Opt in everything. Deletion on demand. Criminal penalties for breaches.Structural Antitrust
Break them up. Spin off Android, YouTube, AWS, Instagram, WhatsApp. No self preferencing.AI Guardrails Now
Mandatory safety testing. Transparency in training data. Ban deceptive deepfakes in elections. International alignment on existential risk.Ban Behavioral Micro Targeting
Especially political. Make ads contextual again.
Difficulty: 4 out of 5
Timeline: 24 to 48 months
This isn’t anti tech. It’s anti feudalism. Anti extinction roulette.
This isn’t capitalism working.
This is power drunk on data, untethered from accountability, democracy, or basic survival instinct.
Your privacy isn’t a luxury.
Your job isn’t acceptable collateral.
Your species isn’t expendable.
And when those are treated like costs of “progress,” the house always wins.
This Isn’t Complicated
It’s Corrupt
They say AI is too complex to regulate.
That’s nonsense.
What’s complex is justifying why five companies own the future while gambling with extinction.
Not radical.
Embarrassingly overdue.
This is Fix #9 in the 25 Government Fix Tree, a trunk level reform that stops parasites from choking America’s growth engine.
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The title alone feels like a modern myth, as if you’re gathering the scattered dread about tech into a single story people can actually look at. It suggests that the future isn’t just happening to us, but is being quietly negotiated in boardrooms while everyone scrolls. The idea of “owning America’s future” wrapped in something as mundane as five companies feels both surreal and far too believable.
The tragedy of humans being traded in for AI is that we do it practically on a voluntary level because we give these companies our commerce and our support like churches. I've met people who think Apple is perfect but then bitch about the cost, the planned obsolescence, and the exclusion of other technology while also burying their heads in the sand about the worker mistreatment from the factories that built their iPhones to the technicians being rotated out of their posts in a revolving door of disposable employment. That's just one company amongst the many grim offenders of this new technology monopolization. It's hard to see a future where using all this technology will not strip out our humanity or ability to prosper unless we want to step on the skulls of others to living in some material world of wealth but no soul.