concentration-economics

distributed → one dominant hand

compute-barons

many feed one compute tower

surveillance-state

one eye over the grid

rolling-coup

the loop jammed from turning over

grift-extraction

value siphoned to a private pocket

war-machine

force as a product; the crosshair

detention-state

the box that won't open

agi-race

the capability ramp; who leads sets pace

ai-safety

friction as the brake on the ramp

epistemics

the signal against the noise

crypto-kleptocracy

the token chained to self-dealing

selective-disarmament

armed one way, disarmed the other

labor-displacement

work pushed off the board

creative-ai

the hand still guides the stroke

ai-consciousness

an emergent inner state