March 11, 2025

When I first heard about the concept of DOGE, I immediately understood that it had nothing about cutting costs or waste in government, but rather it was about the wholesale reformation of government with AI. The Atlantic is exposing the tip of the iceberg. How many times have I said, "DATA IS THE NEW OIL"? Further, AI doesn't need humans to perform work, so this is a paradigm of the "crushing of wages" that Marc Andreessen recently talked about. As human value shrinks, AI and its owners are fabulously enriched by the data.