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Vance just admitted Trump wants to seize AI companies

JD Vance casually dropped the most radical economic confession of the decade on a podcast: Trump wants a sovereign wealth fund that takes government equity stakes in every major AI company. The president literally agrees with Bernie Sanders on this. "Rich people got way richer. And that led to in Europe fascism and communism." That's Vance's actual framing. He thinks AI will trigger mass inequality, inequality triggers radicalism, and the fix is workers get a seat at the table before the wealth gets created, not breadcrumbs after. Labor unions. Government ownership stakes. That's the Trump administration's actual position. The other thing terrifying him: AI is "fundamentally a communist technology" because it enables total surveillance and social credit scoring. He doesn't want it. He's explicitly afraid of it. So here's what's really happening: the Republican administration is designing nationalization frameworks for Silicon Valley while everyone else is still arguing about chatbots taking jobs. The craziest part is how casually he buried it. If you have money in OpenAI or Anthropic, watch the full podcast yourself.

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