I think it was Aristotle who roughly suggested that those who come to us as “most just” with only our interests at heart as the basis for their fabulously constructed giant scale of a plan to improve our well-being, is usually the biggest self-centered disingenuous ass-hat in the room, but maybe that’s me and my 64 years talking. Or the New Yorker tome on Sam Altman that I cannot seem to unread.

But this man has raised and wants to raise more money on an epic scale. And now he needs “our” money via the tax system. And he needs our cooperation, on a Federal and Local level, to do stuff like build power plants, get Data Center permits in local communities, run transmission lines, and experiment with nuclear power. And he needs to effectively buy or run roughshod over the world of knowledge creation and copyright. All stuff that does not naturally flow from the greatness of a particular technology, but through the grubby hands of a mostly democratic process called the messy state of American politics. In the words of Yogi Berra, “90% of this is technology, the other 50% is money and permitting.”

I am focused on the money. I have wasted a lot of time in this space and by no means claim my Black 8 Ball has it wired. But at the present time, the “math” on trillions doesn’t produce a tangible return to those spending it. Much less those who are contributing it. We all use it, we watch it, we wait.

But this piece is not going to help anyone get where it is we are going.