The New Caste Symmetries in How Much It Costs to Overtake or Win Over an Opponent

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Everyone now is sitting on top of these frankensteins. And the person who runs that frankenstein doesn't know what it's doing. Instead of spending trillions of dollars revitalizing our nuclear arsenal, i just have to spend a couple million to either hack into your tekinfor structure or reach every single useor with ten thousand dollars. The new caste symmetries in how much it cost to overtake or win over an opponent have also changed as we've gone from top down to command and control.

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