[UncleMeat]

Billionaires are frightened by politics because it can generate revolutionary thought that threatens their mountains of gold. They think "why can't you shut up and be a good source of labor for me to extract."

[red-iron-pine]

they don't just think that, they say it, regularly.

Ellison basically said, repeatedly, that we need AI to keep the poors in line and prevent "bad behavior"

Project 2025 never says it loudly but its unambiguous in those aims