The Tyrant’s Moat

I’ve heard the word “moat” in the economic sense a couple of times today so I looked it up and it’s a word for the hard-to-compete-with-ness of some companies due to things like regulatory fees or network externalites. AI legislation would be awesome because I sure as heckfire agree that we need protection from AI (for example, regulate energy please!) but the way the AI corporations are setting it up it is creating a “moat” for themselves. This is how thatcherism broke the world. Pre Thatcher, institutions were hard to compete with but it was okay because they were labeled “the people’s stick”. Post Thatcher, they became Tyrant Kings of Athas enslaving us all with their moatastic powers. Texts • Politics

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