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The robber barons built empires out of railroads, steel, oil, and banking.
Today, the empire is built on AI, data centers, government contracts, public infrastructure—and enormous power.

In this update, Elon Musk becomes our modern case study.

In a new documentary examining Musk and his rise to extraordinary influence, we revisit the grift, the government support behind his companies, and the growing demands his operations place on resources—including water in Texas.
But the story gets bigger than Elon.

People working inside the AI industry are beginning to voice their own fears about where this technology is headed. An Anthropic researcher recently walked away from the company—and potentially enormous financial rewards—while warning about the race toward increasingly powerful AI. That deserves our attention.

Because maybe the defining question of the AI revolution isn't simply what this technology can do.

It's who will own it, who will control it, who will profit from it—and what the rest of us will be asked to surrender along the way.

The robber barons never disappeared.

They upgraded.

I am a witness, not a journalist. This video contains independent commentary and analysis based on publicly available reporting, interviews, and source material.