Tech companies are spending record amounts on AI data centers and infrastructure — Amazon alone plans roughly $200 billion in capex this year, with most going to AI — and this represents a genuine economic shift toward capital-intensive automation. The post frames this as captured elites excluding workers while excluding crucial context: whether this investment actually *succeeds* in replacing jobs, what the economic surplus claim rests on, and what alternatives workers/society might pursue. The author's underlying worry about wealth concentration and unequal risk-bearing reflects real structural concerns but uses charged language ('harebrained,' 'clowns') that moves the post from analysis into polemic.