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> acting moderately sane will be treated as an existential threat [...] and pushed out.

Or converted, by making them take actions so that "if we go down you're going down with us."

Organized crime works that way too, come to think of it. They may call it "loyalty", but it really means "give us a way to coerce you into compliance."

Thankfully our fearless American regulators would never shy away from hanging these scoundrels out to dr- hey wait, where are the lawyers going off to?

The lawyers are off in the Hamptons this summer with the same people who are the root cause of the 2008 financial crisis.

To paraphrase Clarke's three laws, a sufficiently advanced quantity of yes-men and tech industry bro "move fast and break things" types is indistinguishable from a hostile malware actor.