From “Large Man Abroad”
The AI arms race isn’t being fought in Silicon Valley; it’s being fought in your backyard. Small-town America is being quietly auctioned off to the highest bidder, and the Stratos Project in Box Elder County, Utah, is the blueprint. Reality TV billionaires and defense contractors are securing massive corporate welfare to boil local aquifers and strain the US energy grid—all while the working class foots the bill.
We are watching the unwinding of the empire in real-time. Welcome to the parasite economy, where the two-tier system ensures you pay a premium to drink battery acid while tech conglomerates cash in on the AI bubble. It’s a masterclass in domestic resource extraction. Watching this civic decay from the shores of the Aegean, the collapse of the American middle class has never looked clearer.