A visceral reaction but aimed at the wrong person. It's just an observation of the trends. The fact that tech companies no longer need to sell to consumers, the intermingling of tech companies with the US government, the trending authoritarianism of world governments, and the moral panic being manufactured to implement age verification, the erosion of encryption, and the now-illegality of VPNs by first world governments.

Go read some slop by Curtis Yarvin. He's the mind behind the ideology of the new right. That is where it's headed.

Or free money. Take the wager! Why don't you fine folk both put your money where your sermingly-confidently-omniscient mouths are?

You and I have come to the same conclusion. Compute as a service. I foresee it one step further - anyone with unlicensed personal compute that isn't tied to a corporate subscription will not be legal.

I admire your viewpoint and wish it was the case. America will use its military and economic force to bend the world to do what it wishes. It already does that now and they've shown intent to further this behaviour.