Another meme shows the first lady standing behind her husband in the Oval Office, while he signs a presidential decree.
The caption reads: “Sisters Melania of the Bene Gesserit” – a reference to the powerful, secret and politically influential sisterhood from Frank Herbert’s science fiction book Dune.
We drag them to the future. There is no other direction.
Some of this is just the noise that society makes though.
Our billionaires have a lot of power, but I don't think they're near the Robber Barrons of the US past. The LLMs are trash, but your boss used to put who you should vote for in your paycheck and the only media that existed was sole property of big business.
I'll grant that the last few decades have been rough, but it beats the past.