Given how they mock monopoly, If the tallow makers of France saw what we had done to capitalism they might fear our barons of industry would charge for sunlight

Given how they mock monopoly, If the tallow makers of France saw what we had done to capitalism they might fear our barons of industry would charge for sunlight or blot it out. Universal human good appears on no financial report nor ballot sheet or any other objective of the mass of human work on the face of the earth (except perhaps a byline in a shrinking church or fraternal order). If new suns are in store, how exactly are we to organize its distribution and protect its fertility? What commons has not been spoiled? What resource has not been extracted and hoarded? The black gold of AI will be pumped from ground to mingle with the water of art and truth and community and education and as sure as such extraction has polluted the land it will sully our minds and squeeze our wallets.