It’s a combination of people who literally want to own everything even if the only things left are smoking ruins and the useful idiots they have recruited to do

It’s a combination of people who literally want to own everything even if the only things left are smoking ruins and the useful idiots they have recruited to do the work. I’m not even sure it’s a deliberate conspiracy. It’s more like Bryan Cantrill’s lawnmower. If you replace the country names with software products and the columns with “on prem” and “cloud” the Trump tariff charts look like an Oracle contract renewal.