Manhattan Contrarian ping
Of course, though Menton does not mention it specifically, when government pays, it is highly motivated to limit what it is paying for, too. So, the Democrats, which want the government to pay for everything, also want the people to have nothing.
Menton’s many writings on energy cause me to think that this was part of the Democrats’ plan with the Green Energy Scam. The Democrats knew that AI servers and Data Centers would consume large amounts of energy. Being the masters of forcing people to make do with less, their “plan” was to give the reliable and abundant power to AI and to make people make due with the precarious Green Energy sources.