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Trump's pressure on courts, prosecutors, and elections is a real threat, but whether institutions hold depends on whether their defenders still act like defenders.
Capitalism can survive AI, but only if redistribution happens before ownership concentration captures the governments that would impose it.
Policy disagreements become existential threats when economic inequality destroys shared civic reality and algorithms profit from the resulting conflict.
Tax capital gains like wages, fund universal basic services, and democratize ownership gradually through sovereign wealth funds.
Automation will concentrate wealth dangerously unless society redesigns who owns the machines.
Technology serves those who own it, but communities can govern it democratically if institutions give them real control over development and benefits.