This gets to a key point that @mattseybold.bsky.social has made on American Vandal: industrial capital wished to create mass literacy through institutions like those detailed below to control workers. Tech capital wants to destroy mass literacy via replacing critical thought w AI to control workers.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique
It’s very telling that billionaires have moved from trying to build influence by funding schools, the arts, libraries, or even good works to just dumping money into various mouthpieces
In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2)
prospect.org/2026/06/12/n...
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
