Very well expressed Steve. I too wonder how we can contain the oligarchs, if they have no interest in a sustainable planet. Musk and his lot still believe in the fairy tale of interplanetary colonization (maybe it is a Afrikaner thing), despite there being no other inhabitable planets in out solar system (and too much radiation in space). Go back and read the piece I wrote on Veblen (the Gild is nearly off our age). When the AI Bubble and Crypto crash, the Emperor will be "stark raving naked" and the system beyond bailouts.