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The forced integration of AI into our lives is a massive knowledge transfer away from the "lower" classes. The right wing has spent 30+ years railing against our modern education system. The US South has been a testing ground for this, as they've moved more toward religious beliefs and away from modern education. Now we see AI companies buying and burning books, destroying search engines, forcing their way into our education systems while other core courses are cut, offering easy replacements for anything we want to create. And people are getting dumber and less capable of doing these things. So what happens when the AI companies raise their prices, or pull information away entirely? Who will know how to do those things anymore? How will we access that information if we can't afford it? This has happened in the past, but on much slower timelines. This is an escalation by the upper class. And it's going to be an uphill battle from here.