Comment by evrydayhustling

Getting the government to regulate your competition isn't 5d chess, it's barely even chess. If you study the birth of any technology in the last 200 years -- rail, electricity, radio, integrated circuits, etc -- you will see the same playbook put to this use. Any good tech executive must be aware of this history.

None of this requires every doomer to be disingenuous or even ill-informed, or even for specific leaders to by lying about their beliefs. It's just that those beliefs that benefit highly capitalized companies get amplified, and the alternatives not so much.