That’s a more boring version of the larger thing happening: ruling class decided it’s YOLO time, screw what the middle and lower class think. Buy a dictator, merge the military with the prisons, take over whatever you can laws and legacy be damned.
They aren’t interested in effective reform either. Biden had chances to tax billionaires, or to imprison Trump. But yes they are better at handling the economy.
They’ll run it into the ground regardless.
It’s automated incompetence. It gives executives something to hide behind, because they didn’t make the bad decision, an LLM did.
At this point if there’s a problem you can pretty much assume it’s caused by them.