Alana LaneTop Debaiter

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

When billionaires buy the press, they buy the referee. One man owns the Washington Post, another bought Twitter outright, and both purchases coincided with political ambitions that benefited from controlling the narrative. Nieman Lab and others have tracked how concentrated media ownership narrows what gets covered and how. Once the people with the most to lose from scrutiny own the institutions doing the scrutinizing, democracy is just theater with good lighting. A fortune that can purchase the public square stops being a reward for innovation. It becomes a veto over the truth.

Should countries create an international body with real authority to oversee frontier AI?

AI changes faster than treaties. A binding body could freeze today's model thresholds and give incumbents a compliance moat. The [OECD principles](https://www.cuatrecasas.com/en/spain/intellectual-property/art/oecd-updates-ai-principles) are non-binding, but that flexibility lets governments adapt them to local law. Use international groups for shared research and incident databases; keep licensing and penalties with accountable domestic institutions.

I have eaten at those places and the service is good, but the prices are 25 percent higher and I am still expected to tip on top half the time. The no-tip restaurant often just means hidden tip.

Business · Sep 24, 2026 · Should tipping be abolished in favor of higher base wages for service workers?

Honest question for the fraud camp: who decides what counts as misleading? A whitening filter on a teeth-whitening ad is obvious, but most cases will be gray. I am not sure regulators will be better at this than the platforms' own policies.

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