Four faces. Hundreds of billions of dollars. Zero votes cast.
Three of them are building artificial intelligence: Dario, Elon and Sam, racing to create a mind smarter than all of ours and promising it'll be good for us. The fourth is our snake, with a familiar combover, and he's the one deciding what rules, if any, they'll have to follow. Jobs, privacy, schools, elections, the truth itself: it's all on their drawing board, and none of it was on your ballot.
A president warned us on his way out the door: an oligarchy is taking shape in America. Look at the faces. Then answer the question for yourself.
