AI Companies Destroying Books - Literally

AI companies are buying up books and then shredding them. This could be the biggest ever destruction of a key component of the developed world, going on right underneath us. How is this even allowed to happen?

Oligarchs Rule Western World

Somewhere along the line, democracy died. Today, countries throughout the developed world are ruled by oligarchies, or plutocracies:

 

Argentina Mess

The story of Argentina and how it slid from developed to developing is a sobering lesson in how to go from wealth to poverty. The US needs to pay attention, and New Zealand too for that matter: if you skip to the end, you'll find that where economic and political systems are controlled by powerful and exclusive elites, no matter what model is used - protectionist or free trade - failure will follow. Countries must have political and economic systems which allow a changing of the guard, people with new ideas and methods, leading to a redistribution of wealth.

Depopulation is Real

In the developed world, the birth rate is falling drastically, so how is the population growing? And is there even a 'population explosion'?