> The US government basically has to nationalize AI and capture an outsize portion of the revenue from it in order to fix the economy, as the combination of debt burden and interest rate pressure from de-dollarization/global realignment is going to push us into a death spiral, and even if AI is a smash hit, the ~19% federal capture of corporate revenue isn't nearly enough to pull us out of it.

Any actual numbers to back this up? I don't see how nationalizing a very cutting edge technology outside of wartime is going to go super well. The leverage that these companies have is the same leverage that TSMC has: you can't just take over and expect things to rocket at the pace its going