The AI Cartel Now Wants Us to Bail Out Its Slop | 11/6/25

Well, well, well. That didn’t take long. OpenAI’s leadership hinted yesterday at what we all know: namely, that the company's financing model is unsustainable and its leaders are expecting government to bail them out. I explain how their entire enterprise is not built upon the free market, so all of its economic and social consequences are not in line with the benefits we’ve reaped from legitimate technological revolutions. Unfortunately, the Trump administration continues to deny the economic problems while making data centers the centerpiece of its mission. I explain how and why we could crush the Left if we divorced from Big Tech. Finally, I express concerns about JD Vance’s “aristopopulism,” which mixes the worst elements of elitism and populism rather than the benefits of each.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices