It may well be true that even the most virtuous leaders cannot make an unfair system very much better in the short to medium term. But OTOH we're seeing now that when your leaders are all total bastards, they can make things dramatically *worse* at dizzying speeds.

There will be many corporate boards standing before the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Committee and DraftKings' will be among them

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

I don't think A House of Dynamite works as a story but I think there's an interesting essay about institutional friction and paralysis in there if we just treat the nuke as a magical realist conceit to get the ball rolling