In “TrumpED 2025: College Alternative Corporatization, Social Impression Finance, and the Dismantling of the Division of Training,” I documented how President Donald Trump has been pursuing training reforms that align with Venture 2025, which requires Trump to push federal “college selection” subsidies, together with “Training Financial savings Accounts” (ESAs) and tax credit for company donations to “Scholarship Granting Organizations” (SGOs). Within the wake of my report, Trump signed into legislation the omnibus “One Large Lovely Invoice Act,” ramming by means of a college selection rider that resembles the SGO tax credit score provisions stipulated within the “Academic Alternative for Youngsters Act” (ECCA), which is championed in Venture 2025.
College selection ESAs and SGO tax credit could afford mother and father and college students with a broader menu of studying choices, however not with out concurrently increasing Large Authorities, Large Enterprise, and Large Tech management over public, non-public, and residential training. To make certain, ESAs and tax-credited “scholarships” are primed to increase authorities regulation of personal, non secular, and residential faculties whereas publicly subsidizing ed-tech firms that data-mine college students’ psychometrics for predictive studying analytics. Not solely are ESAs and tax-credited “scholarships” positioned to increase the reaches of presidency bureaucracies and ed-tech firms into public, non-public, and residential educationl, however they go even farther, as they’re additionally positioned to usher fin-tech firms into public-private partnerships between ed-tech firms and authorities bureaucracies with a purpose to digitally dole out ESAs and “scholarships” to college students.
Actually, a number of fin-tech firms, together with ClassWallet, Odyssey, Pupil First Applied sciences (SFT), Benefit Worldwide, and SAP Ariba, are already specializing in “digital wallets” that streamline ESA and tax-credited “scholarship” funds. Altogether, these fin-tech firms have already contracted with no less than 32 state governments to facilitate ESA and “scholarship” funds for public-private college selection applications. A few of these fin-tech firms, resembling ClassWallet, have additionally contracted with the USA (US) Federal authorities to digitize emergency training funding for virtual-online “distance studying” throughout COVID lockdowns. Many of those fin-tech firms and their digital wallets have additionally been promoted by a Koch–funded regiment of corporatist State Coverage Community (SPN) suppose tanks, together with the Heritage Basis, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), EdChoice, and ExcelinEd –– all of that are associates of Venture 2025 contributors.
The corporatization and digitization of public training are problematic sufficient, however the fin-tech privatization of faculty selection subsidies by means of digital wallets is in the end a stepping stone towards the public-private federalization of blockchain “distributed ledger applied sciences” (DLTs) that switch, monitor, and hint all authorities funds by means of programmable cryptocurrencies, resembling “stablecoins,” which have their worth anchored to that of the US greenback. Pledging to crown America because the “world capital” of crypto and AI, Trump has not solely minted his personal “USD1” stablecoin, however he has additionally signed laws legalizing digital stablecoin {dollars} along with signing govt orders to determine stablecoin rules together with a US “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” and a US “Digital Asset Stockpile.” To attain crypto and AI dominance, Trump has joined forces with high PayPal Mafia bosses, together with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks, together with their enterprise capitalist (VC) cronies, resembling Marc Andreessen, who collectively have laid the groundwork for the evolving digital economic system by bankrolling digital wallets, blockchain DLTs, cryptocurrencies, and crypto trade platforms.
In brief, the corporatist contingent of the Koch-SPN suppose tanks behind Venture 2025 is advocating for varsity selection ESAs and “scholarships” to be streamlined by fin-tech firms whereas the Silicon Valley technocrats of the PayPal Mafia are guiding Trump to speed up the evolution of the digital economic system by means of federal authorities adoption of blockchain DLTs and stablecoins. As Trump’s “PayPal Presidency” onboards federal blockchain programs, the college selection corporatization of the Koch-SPN cartel and the fin-tech disruptions of the PayPal Mafia are set to converge in a public-private digital pockets trade that tokenizes ESA and “scholarship” subsidies by means of stablecoins programmed by AI for government-restricted buying of ed-tech services. Synergizing the neo-conservative, beltway-libertarian, and VC Silicon Valley blocs of the Republican Occasion, the Koch-SPN and PayPal Mafia powers behind Trump are setting the stage for fin-tech digitization of college selection subsidies with a purpose to improve public-private ed-tech programs for AI social credit score scoring within the blockchain economic system of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
To SPN a Net: College Alternative Corporatization Meets Fin-Tech Digitization
As I doc in “TrumpED 2025,” the Trump administration’s training reforms are following the Venture 2025 “Playbook.” Titled Mandate for Management: The Conservative Promise, Venture 2025 was authored by associates of the Koch–funded SPN, which is a consortium of neo-conservative and beltway-libertarian suppose tanks, together with the Heritage Basis and the AEI, together with corporatist college selection suppose tanks, resembling EdChoice, and ExcelinEd. Not solely have these Koch-SPN suppose tanks advocated for varsity selection ESAs in alignment with Venture 2025, however they’ve additionally referred to as for company fin-tech overhauls to denationalise cost and accounting programs for presidency ESA subsidies.
On the helm of Venture 2025 is the Heritage Basis, which is the “arch-conservative” suppose tank that has set the mould for Republican insurance policies for greater than a half century. Along with directing Venture 2025, which requires changing federal training entitlements into college selection ESAs, the Heritage Basis serves on the Venture 2025 Advisory Board. The primary writer of Venture 2025’s “Division of Training” chapter is Lindsey M. Burke, who’s the Director of the Heritage Middle for Training Coverage the place her Venture 2025 co-author, Jonathan Butcher, is a Senior Analysis Fellow. In a Heritage Basis article titled “Monetary Expertise and Parental Alternative in Training,” Butcher requires fin-tech corporatization to streamline cost and accounting programs for presidency ESAs.
In line with Butcher, college selection ESAs are mannequin monetary automobiles for subsidizing non-public faculties and ed-tech firms with public tax {dollars} as a result of ESAs allow “mother and father [to] customise their kids’s training” by buying an array of “instructional services.” Particularly, ESAs allow “[p]arents [to] purchase on-line lessons, rent a private tutor, . . . pay non-public college tuition,” and buy ed-tech merchandise.
Whereas ESAs would possibly ship a extra dynamic menu of customizable decisions, the sheer scale of such individualized customization presents monetary accounting and transaction issues that impede mother and father’ skills to effectively entry the total menu of personal faculties and ed-tech firms which can be eligible to obtain ESA cash. To resolve these transactional and accounting issues and, thereby, streamline the customization of training selection, Butcher advocates for ESA fin-tech that may be programmed to rapidly confirm a wider vary of approved instructional providers and merchandise and, in flip, speedily switch ESA funds to licensed faculties and distributors. Butcher avers that ESA funds:
“want a system that permits mother and father and college students to make a number of purchases every fiscal quarter, maybe even a number of purchases every day, whereas limiting such transactions to lawful instructional services.
The system wants to dam illegal transactions and facilitate cost to a number of distributors with out utilizing money—all traits of the cost providers changing into obtainable at this time by means of monetary know-how.”
To help his case for fin-tech privatization of ESA administration, Butcher describes how Visa and a number of other fin-tech firms, together with Venmo, PayPal, and BenefitWallet, have already contracted with the state governments of Arizona and Nevada to facilitate tax-funded ESA funds.
In line with Butcher, next-generation fin-tech, resembling ClassWallet, which makes a speciality of college selection vouchers, “scholarships,” and ESAs, ought to substitute pay as you go Visa and PayPal ESAs with a purpose to save mother and father cash and stop fraudulent use of ESA tax subsidies. Butcher relays that ESA transactions carried out by means of PayPal incur a charge that folks should pay with every buy. Butcher additionally conveys that, though pay as you go Visa ESAs are programmed with buying codes that prohibit services or products that don’t fall beneath approved classes, a few of these codes, resembling Walmart product codes, are imprecise, creating loopholes for households to purchase unauthorized services or products with authorities ESA subsidies. Conversely, Butcher highlights how next-generation fin-tech, resembling ClassWallet, doesn’t incur a charge and could be programmed to switch funds solely to particularly approved faculties, ed-tech firms, and academic service distributors.
Hyping next-gen fin-tech as the way forward for ESA administration, Butcher advises state governments to:
“outsource full or partial implementation of training financial savings accounts to non-public organizations. State departments of training ought to present coverage steerage regarding eligible instructional providers and merchandise for buy, however state lawmakers ought to look to firms focusing on fintech with a purpose to streamline transactions and stop the growth of presidency exercise. State companies mustn’t create new information programs or rent new employees. As a substitute, the state ought to contract with non-public entities to handle cost processing and audits.”
Briefly, Butcher’s Heritage whitepaper rationalizes fin-tech privatization of faculty selection ESAs on the premise of ostensibly eliminating authorities waste, fraud, and abuse, which is identical rationale that the Trump administration offers for guiding the US Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) to chainsaw public training and different tax-funded applications.
Along with the Heritage Basis, one other Koch-SPN suppose tank that has espoused fin-tech privatization of ESAs is the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) the place Butcher’s Venture 2025 co-author, Max Eden, has served as a Analysis Fellow, a Senior Fellow, and an Training Coverage Program Supervisor. In an AEI article titled “Implementing Okay–12 Training Financial savings Accounts,” Michael Q. McShane, who’s an AEI Adjunct Fellow, asserts that “there must be extra competitors within the ESA cost platform trade. Half ‘govtech’ and half ‘fintech’ options ought to be capable to straddle the worlds of personal trade and authorities to make funds quick and fluid.” In line with this AEI whitepaper, governments ought to contract with progressive fin-tech firms that make the “use of ESA {dollars} seamless and easy.” To attain these fin-tech efficiencies, McShane requires laws and rules that appoint “a personal entity to manage the day-to-day particulars of this system (approving expenditures, paying faculties and different suppliers, and so on.).”
McShane can be the Director of Nationwide Analysis at one other Koch-SPN suppose tank, EdChoice, the place Venture 2025 writer Lindsey M. Burke is a Fellow. Previously often known as the Milton and Rose Friedman Basis for Academic Alternative, EdChoice has additionally advocated for fin-tech privatization of ESAs. In an “EdChoice Coverage Toolkit” titled “ESA Monetary Accountability: Reimbursements, Debit Playing cards or On-line Platforms?,” EdChoice touts that “[o]nline [fin-tech] platforms like these developed by ClassWallet and SAP Ariba present the very best degree of [ESA] monetary accountability with the least quantity of forms.” In line with this EdChoice “Toolkit,” “[s]ince the [fin-tech] platforms solely enable the acquisition of eligible services, this mannequin offers the very best type of monetary accountability. Furthermore, it’s rather more cost-effective than the opposite fashions as a result of it doesn’t require an enormous employees to pore over innumerable receipts.”
One other affiliate of one more Koch-SPN suppose tank, the American Federation for Youngsters (AFC), has championed “digital wallets,” resembling ClassWallet, as probably the most cutting-edge fin-tech improve for privatizing ESAs. Sarah Raybon, who’s the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at ClassWallet, “has labored to increase instructional alternatives by means of . . . the American Federation for Youngsters,” in keeping with her ClassWallet worker profile. In a ClassWallet article titled “Guaranteeing Transparency with Training Financial savings Account Applications,” Raybon advises state governments to denationalise “ESA applications” by means of public-private “digital pockets” contracts with fin-tech firms with a purpose to “meet the wants of all stakeholders,” together with “[p]olicymakers,” “[p]rogram members,” and “[s]tate directors.” Raybon explains how:
“[ESA] [p]rogram directors can set guidelines with digital wallets round [ESA] purchases to keep away from the misuse of [ESA] funds, serving to program directors adjust to legislative necessities and simply monitor the place {dollars} are spent. The know-how offers directors with real-time monitoring and reporting choices. Actual-time transaction monitoring and digital record-keeping consolidate account information into one place, streamlining audit reporting, compliance and transparency.”
Along with advancing college selection corporatization and digital pockets privatization by means of the AFC and ClassWallet, Raybon has additionally served because the Director of Communications and Engagement on the Arizona Division of Training (ADE) the place she administrated sides of the state’s “Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA)” program, which is America’s first-ever ESA program. At this time, the ADE web site formally states that “ClassWallet is the monetary administration platform for the [Arizona] ESA program.”
It’s price noting right here that the AFC, which was based, financed, and chaired by former US Secretary of Training, Betsy DeVos, operates a “Progress Fund” that was previously often known as the Alliance for College Alternative the place Venture 2025 co-author, Robert S. Eitel, served because the “nationwide director.” Below Trump’s first presidency, Eitel served as “Senior Counselor” to Secretary DeVos, who has additionally bankrolled EdChoice, the Heritage Basis, and the AEI.
It’s also price noting right here that Secretary DeVos staffed her Division of Training with Neil Ruddock, Andrew Kossack, and Josh Venable, all of whom labored for Jeb Bush’s Basis for Excellence in Training (ExcelinEd), which is one more Koch-SPN suppose tank that has additionally been advocating for fin-tech privatization of ESAs. In an ExcelinEd weblog article titled “Unlocking the Full Potential of Training Financial savings Accounts: Navigating Expense Assessment for Most Impression,” the ExcelinEd Training Alternative Coverage Director recommends administering ESAs by means of “a number of programs for cost strategies, resembling a web-based market for direct purchases” facilitated by means of “varied cost choices,” together with “digital wallets.” For precision accounting and switch of digital ESAs, ExcelinEd recommends combining fin-tech with synthetic intelligence (AI) that may “streamline the expense evaluate course of. AI can quickly course of and approve clear-cut instances whereas flagging extra complicated bills for guide evaluate, thereby balancing effectivity with oversight.” ExcelinEd provides that “[i]deally, the [AI] know-how may ‘be taught’ over time, decreasing the quantity that require guide evaluate.”
In sum, Venture 2025 writer, Jonathan Butcher, has straight hyped fin-tech privatization of ESAs. In the meantime a number of Koch-SPN suppose tanks, together with the Heritage Basis, the AEI, and EdChoice, that are affiliated with Venture 2025 authors, resembling Butcher, Lindsey M. Burke, and Max Eden, have additionally been calling for fin-tech privatization of ESAs. On the similar time, one other Koch-SPN suppose tank, ExcelinEd, has likewise been cheerleading for fin-tech corporatization of ESAs. Contemplating that Trump’s push to “dismantle” the Division of Training has been following the Venture 2025 “Playbook,” which requires a portion of federal training entitlements to be transformed into ESAs, the trajectory of Trump’s college selection reforms is palpably bent towards greenlighting the fin-tech ESA overhauls touted by Venture 2025 associates and their Koch-SPN cronies.
Enterprise Capital & College Alternative Fin-Tech: From Digital Wallets to Blockchain IDs
Main fin-tech firms, resembling ClassWallet, Odyssey, Pupil First Applied sciences (SFT), Benefit Worldwide, SAP Ariba, and BenefitWallet, have already been contracting with no less than 31 state governments to streamline public training expenditures, together with college selection subsidies, resembling ESAs and tax-credited “scholarships.” These fin-tech firms have been bankrolled by disruptive enterprise capital companies, resembling Stand Collectively Ventures Lab, which is related with the Koch–SPN syndicate, together with Alumni Ventures, Bling Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz, which share frequent investments with PayPal Mafia don, Peter Thiel. Bolstered by enterprise capital and public-private partnerships with greater than 60% of America’s State governments, these premier fin-tech firms are poised to not solely privatize the Federal college selection ESAs championed by Venture 2025 and its affiliate SPN suppose tanks, however to additionally improve digital wallets with blockchain DLTs and AI analytics backed by Thiel and different PayPal Mafiosos. In flip, college selection subsidies and different public training funds could be doled out by AI to pay for a menu of ed-tech services which can be algorithmically prescribed based mostly on college students’ predictive social credit score analytics extrapolated from their studying metrics logged into their blockchain digital IDs.
One of the crucial outstanding fin-tech firms facilitating ESA transactions is ClassWallet, which has bought its “patented digital pockets” providers to no less than 18 State governments, together with Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. In line with an organization press launch, ClassWallet has been bankrolled by Lazard Household Workplace Companions: a subsidiary of Lazard Inc., which is a World Financial Discussion board (WEF) accomplice that has employed Nathaniel Rothschild, who’s a WEF Younger World Chief, and Vernon Jordan, who was an advisor to President Invoice Clinton and a member of each the Trilateral Fee and the Bilderberg Group. It’s price noting right here that it was President Clinton who signed into legislation the first Federal college selection invoice authorizing non-public constitution college firms to be publicly backed by US tax {dollars}.
For those who’ve by no means heard of ClassWallet, it made the Inc. 5000 “prestigious annual checklist of the fastest-growing non-public firms in America” for the third yr in a row in 2024 when it was ranked because the “88th fastest-growing software program firm.” In 2023, ClassWallet, which companions with Amazon, was ranked by Deloitte at quantity 114 on the Deloitte Expertise Quick 500 checklist. Previous to rising by means of the Deloitte and Inc. 5000 charts, ClassWallet capitalized on the COVID restrictions of 2020, 2021, and 2022 when it grew to become a go-to for transferring emergency aid funds issued by means of the Training Stabilization Fund (ESF) beneath the Coronavirus Support, Aid, and Financial Safety (CARES) Act, the American Rescue Plan Act, and the Coronavirus Response and Aid Supplemental Appropriations Act.
Within the wake of COVID lockdowns, ClassWallet has strived to increase its fin-tech platform past emergency ESF aid and college selection subsidies by branching out to digitally switch public funds from different authorities bureaucracies, together with the Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) and the US Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD). ClassWallet has additionally bought its digital pockets providers to transmit payouts from “Early Childhood Care Grants” issued by means of the Baby Care and Growth Fund of the US Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS).
Inversely, BenefitWallet initially developed its digital pockets for disbursing tax-advantaged funds from Well being Financial savings Accounts (HSAs) earlier than increasing its fin-tech platform to disseminate college selection tax subsidies from ESAs. It’s price noting right here that BenefitWallet was previously a subsidiary of the Xerox company’s spin-off firm, Conduent, the place Council on Overseas Relations (CFR) member Michael Montelongo and US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Margarita Paláu-Hernández serve on the Board of Administrators. Presently, BenefitWallet is a subsidiary of HealthEquity Inc. the place the Board of Administrators consists of executives who previously held “management positions” at PayPal, Mastercard, Financial institution of America, Citibank, Constancy Fairness, Charles Schwab, Western Union, Hartford Monetary Companies Group, and the New York Inventory Alternate.
One other fin-tech company that manages ESA commerce is Odyssey, which is “the primary [fin-tech] firm designed particularly for training financial savings accounts (ESAs).” In line with its firm web site, Odyssey’s fin-tech platform “join[s] households, states, and distributors” by means of “[s]ecure digital pupil wallets” that optimize “[e]nd-to-end information retention and cost processing” by “[a]utomat[ing] verification and expense approval” of ESA transactions. Up to now, Odyssey has bought its digital pockets providers to no less than 7 State governments, together with Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Wyoming, Idaho, Missouri, and Utah.
Odyssey, which companions with Amazon, has been bankrolled by a number of enterprise capital companies which can be adjoining to PayPal Mafia godfather, Peter Thiel. For instance, Odyssey has been financed by Bling Capital, which can be invested in Palantir: the AI predictive analytics company based and directed by Thiel and his fellow Bilderberg Steering Committeeman, Alex Karp. Odyssey has additionally been funded by Marc Andreessen’s enterprise capital agency, Andreessen Horowitz, which has shared frequent investments with Thiel’s enterprise capital agency, Founders Fund. Particularly, each Andreessen Horowitz and Thiel’s Founders Fund have financed Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industries, each of which have contracted with Trump’s Division of Protection, which additionally contracts with Palantir. It’s price noting right here that Odyssey has additionally been bankrolled by Tusk Enterprise Companions, which has shared frequent blockchain and crypto trade investments with Thiel’s Founders Fund; and has additionally invested in Coinbase, a cryptocurrency trade platform that traffics in digital crypto wallets; and has.
It’s also price noting right here that Odyssey was a finalist for the 2023 Yass Prize awarded by billionaire financier Jeff Yass, whose College Freedom Fund teamed up with Betsy DeVos’s AFC in 2024 to foyer legislators to sponsor and vote for varsity selection payments that greenlight ESAs, vouchers, and tax-credited “scholarships” by means of which “federal funding observe[s] college students – relatively than authorities assigned faculties.” Yass, who has served as an Government Affiliate of the Heritage Basis, endows his Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformative, Excellent, and Permissionless (STOP) Training in partnership with the Middle for Training Reform (CER), which additionally companions with the Koch–backed SPN behind Venture 2025. Actually, the CER, which collaborates with different SPN suppose tanks, such because the AFC, EdChoice, and ExcelinEd, was based by US Division of Training official, Jeanne Allen, who has served as a Supervisor of the Heritage Middle for Training Coverage the place Venture 2025 authors Lindsey M. Burke and Jonathan Butcher at present function Director and Senior Analysis Fellow respectively.
Together with Odyssey, Andreessen Horowitz has additionally financed Benefit Worldwide, which is an “ID-tech” firm that additionally offers fin-tech providers by means of digital wallets. In line with its firm web site, Benefit Worldwide manages digital cost programs for “ESA, microgrant, and tax-credit applications” ruled by the Ohio State Division of Training and Workforce and the Kansas State Workplace of Restoration. Synchronously, Benefit authenticates “digital credentials” by means of a “digital identification ecosystem” engineered to optimize “Grants Administration,” “Emergency Administration,” “Workforce Growth,” and “Skilled Licensing.” Extra buyers in Benefit’s ID-tech/fin-tech system embrace Experian, which is without doubt one of the “Large Three” credit score reporting firms; Alumni Ventures, which is a strategic “co-investor” with each Andreessen Horowitz and Thiel’s Founders Fund; and Stand Collectively Ventures Lab, which is an offshoot of the Stand Collectively non-profit company based by Charles Koch, who additionally based the Stand Collectively Belief, which is a accomplice with the SPN behind Venture 2025.
Whereas Benefit Worldwide is combining digital ID-tech with digital pockets fin-tech, Pupil First Applied sciences (SFT), which companions with Mastercard, is combining fin-tech with AI-tech to reinforce ESA cost and accounting programs. Up to now, SFT has serviced no less than 18 state governments by monitoring, tracing, and transmitting “ESA,” “Microgrant,” and “Tax Credit score Scholarship” transactions by means of its “end-to-end” AI-enhanced Theodore platform, which transfers authorities college selection funds from digital wallets to approved faculties and distributors providing licensed instructional services. In line with the SFT firm web site, Theodore “[e]mpower[s] every stakeholder” with an SFT AI program referred to as QuinnIQ, which “is a complete ‘human-in-the-loop’ ML (Machine Studying) studying [sic] mannequin that optimizes and automates ESA program expense verification.”
By combining AI-tech, fin-tech, and ID-tech, the digital pockets trade is stacking the constructing blocks for a cybernetic matrix by means of which AI can data-mine predictive social credit score analytics by monitoring and tracing how the transmission of faculty selection subsidies by means of blockchain pupil ID ledgers correlate with particular ed-tech studying outcomes. Actually, no less than one fin-tech platform, SAP Ariba, which collaborates with WEF companions resembling IBM and Amazon, disburses college selection “scholarships” issued by the Florida State Division of Training along with interfacing blockchain purposes and AI instruments that monitor “Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)” scores and different social credit score metrics.
In sum, now that fin-tech firms resembling SAP Ariba, Benefit Worldwide, Odyssey, ClassWallet, and BenefitWallet have unfold their digital tentacles all through the public-private college selection market, the stage is about for these fin-tech disruptors to capitalize on the federal ESAs and tax-credited “scholarships” being pushed by the architects of Venture 2025. On the similar time, these fin-tech trailblazers, that are bankrolled by enterprise capitalists related to the PayPal Mafia and the Koch-SPN syndicate, are positioned to improve their digital pockets platforms with blockchain ledgers and AI analytics resembling these which have been financed by Thiel and different PayPal Mafia technocrats. As soon as such DLTs are linked to digital pupil IDs, the convergence of blockchain-tech, ID-tech, and fin-tech will allow AI-tech to data-mine predictive social credit score analytics by monitoring and tracing cybernetic suggestions loops between college selection subsidies and ed-tech studying outcomes tabulated on digital pupil ID ledgers.
PayPal Mafia 2.0: Blockchain Broligarchy Rolls Out Stablecoin Tokenization of Public Funds
The digital fin-tech privatization of ESAs, tax-credited “scholarships,” and different college selection subsidies being superior by the Koch-SPN cartel is only one side of a complete sport plan for establishing a blockchain social credit score economic system ruled by an AI technocracy. To make certain, the proliferation of digital wallets for privatizing college selection subsidies is nothing lower than a stepping stone towards the company fin-tech digitization of all public subsidies by means of blockchain DLTs and “stablecoins” that may be programmed by AI for authorities–restricted purchases.
Actually, Trump is already federalizing stablecoins whereas nationalizing a “Crypto Strategic Reserve” with clout from PayPal Mafia technocrats, together with David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk, together with fellow VC disruptor, Marc Andreessen. Previous to courting Trump, these PayPal oligarchs and their VC sidekicks have altogether been financing foundational blockchain infrastructure, together with digital wallets, crypto exchanges, and stablecoin platforms, together with probably the most worthwhile crypto cash, together with these which Trump has proposed for his Crypto Strategic Reserve. Now, as Trump pushes for public-private college selection fin-tech together with stablecoins, the corporatist Koch-SPN machinations of the neo-conservative and beltway-libertarian wings of the Republican Occasion are being melded with the technocratic goals of the PayPal Mafia on the VC Silicon Valley wing of the social gathering with a purpose to advance blockchain DLTs and AI–programmed crypto for social credit score cybernetics within the 4IR.
It’s not happenstance that the college selection corporatization stratagems of the Koch-SPN suppose tanks behind Venture 2025 are converging with the fin-tech digitization schemes of the PayPal Mafia beneath the Republican administration of President Trump. PayPal Mafia don Peter Thiel, who has been labeled Trump’s “shadow president,” holds a protracted monitor document of rightwing political activism. Along with his Silicon Valley pedigree of funneling enterprise capital into disruptive fin-tech startups, Thiel, who’s a WEF member, has spearheaded neo-conservative “tradition battle” propaganda; proselytized corporatist “beltway” libertarianism; and collaborated with cabinet-level officers in a number of Republican presidential administrations.
Via Stanford College, Thiel has bolstered neo-con tradition wars by serving on the board of the faculty’s conservative satellite tv for pc suppose tank, the Hoover Establishment, and by founding the faculty’s standard conservative journal, The Stanford Assessment, the place he helmed the publication because the founding editor. Established in 1987 as a tradition battle garrison towards the “social justice” polemics of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Thiel’s Stanford Assessment has since revealed a battery of “anti-woke” polemics which have fueled the Trumpian tradition wars which paved the best way for the present “PayPal Presidency.” Together with Thiel, different Stanford Assessment editors embrace the next roster of technocrats and enterprise capitalists who joined forces with Thiel to arrange PayPal, Palantir, and the Founders Fund:
It’s price noting right here that one other Stanford Assessment editor, Candice Jackson, would go on to function US Assistant Secretary of Training for Civil Rights beneath Betsy DeVos.
Throughout Thiel’s enrollment at Stanford, he served as a speech author for US Secretary of Training William Bennett, who has championed college selection and collaborated with a number of corporatist suppose tanks, together with the Heritage Basis and the American Legislative Alternate Council (ALEC), that are each companions with the SPN and members of the Venture 2025 Advisory Board. In 2023, Bennett joined forces with Betsy DeVos and Jeff Yass, together with ALEC, the AFC, the CER, EdChoice, and ExcelinEd, to foyer Pennsylvania legislators to go a invoice authorizing tax-funded college selection “scholarships” which could be paid by means of digital pockets fin-tech. Yass’s CER accomplice, Jeanne Allen, served within the US Division of Training beneath Secretary Bennett whereas Secretary DeVos was privately suggested by Thiel, who additionally served on Trump’s first presidential transition workforce.
Earlier than Trump’s rise to presidential energy, Thiel was additionally a contributor to the corporatist Cato Institute: the beltway-libertarian suppose tank which, just like the Heritage Basis, has performed a significant position in shaping Republican politics for many years. Based by Charles Koch, the Cato Institute, which is a accomplice with the SPN cartel, is at present staffed by Venture 2025 co-author Andrew Gillen, who serves as a “Coverage Scholar” and a “Analysis Fellow” at Cato’s Middle for Academic Freedom. It’s price noting right here that Gillen, who’s a contributor to the Heritage Basis, has additionally served as a “Program Officer” for the Charles Koch Basis the place one other Venture 2025 co-author, Erin Valdez, has served as a “Program Supervisor” for “Academic Partnerships.”
In a 2009 Cato publication, Thiel authored an article titled “The Training of a Libertarian,” through which he professed, “I now not consider that freedom and democracy are appropriate.” Hyping his trailblazing PayPal empire and its ambitions to advance the fin-tech “creation of a brand new world foreign money, free from all authorities management and dilution,” Thiel proclaimed that “the nice process for libertarians is to search out an escape from politics in all its varieties,” together with all types of democracy. To understand his anarcho-corporatist utopia, Thiel resolved that libertarians ought to leverage the industrialization of disruptive fin-tech and different “new applied sciences which will create a brand new area for freedom” and, thereby, avert the so-called “tyranny” of the “unthinking demos.”
Anticipating an upsurge in such new “liberatory” applied sciences, Cato revealed a 2021 article titled “Charting the Fintech Future,” which advocates for digitally overhauling banking programs with “Chartered Fintechs” and “Secure Worth Crypto Banks” comprised of “blockchain funds community[s]” that site visitors in “Secure Worth Cryptocurrencies.” In any other case often known as “stablecoins,” such “steady worth crypto coin[s]” have been propped up by enterprise capital from Thiel and different PayPal Mafia goodfellas and associates. It’s price noting right here that Cato has additionally promoted the privatization of faculty selection ESAs by means of fin-tech firms resembling BenefitWallet.
At this time, Thiel has been aptly topped the Republican “kingmaker” as he not solely bankrolled Trump’s first presidential marketing campaign, however he has additionally been instrumental to Vice President JD Vance’s rise to political energy. Along with financially backing Vance’s bid for Ohio Senate, Thiel, together with fellow Bilderberg Steering Committeeman Eric Schmidt, additionally backed Vance’s enterprise capital agency, Narya Capital, which is invested in AI and biotech firms. Not solely did Thiel groom VP Vance, who was an investor at Thiel’s Mithril Capital earlier than organising his personal VC agency, however Thiel has additionally turned out to be a formative affect on the collection of President Trump’s present roster of govt appointments, which is stuffed with former workers of Thiel’s Large Tech firms and enterprise capital companies. These embrace:
It’s price noting right here that Thiel can be financially related to Trump’s US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, by means of frequent investments in Vivek Ramaswamy’s “anti-ESG” funding agency, Try Asset Administration, which has been bankrolled by Lutnick’s Cantor Fitzgerald LP, Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Vance’s Narya Capital.
Briefly, Thiel has performed a key position in stoking neo-conservative tradition wars by means of the Hoover Establishment and The Stanford Assessment whereas additionally shaping Republican political coverage, together with financial, training, and presidential coverage, by means of his collaborations with the Cato Institute, Secretary Bennett, Secretary DeVos, VP Vance, and President Trump. Within the meantime, Thiel has additionally been advancing the techno–futurist machinations of Silicon Valley the place he has been paving the best way for a blockchain social credit score economic system by means of a surveillance–capitalist technocracy within the rising 4IR.
It was in 1998 that Thiel ventured to kickstart the 4IR fin-tech revolution by launching a web-based cost company referred to as “Fieldlink,” which might be rebranded as “Confinity,” the place David Sacks joined the corporate as its Chief Working Officer earlier than it merged with Elon Musk’s on-line financial institution startup, “X.com,” to type “PayPal.” Collectively, these Silicon Valley pioneers fashioned a cornerstone of the notorious “PayPal Mafia” with assist from Rod D. Martin, who’s a member of the Board of Governors and the Gold Circle of the Christian-conservative Council for Nationwide Coverage, which is the rightwing model of the Council on Overseas Relations.
Thiel, Musk, and Sacks would come to be identified by their infamous “PayPal Mafia” moniker not solely as a result of they laid the groundwork for the digital fin-tech trade, but in addition as a result of they based and/or funded an all-star forged of disruptive startup firms which have grow to be a few of the world’s strongest Large Tech firms, together with Palantir, OpenAI, xAI, SpaceX, Twitter, Fb, LinkedIn, Stripe, Tesla, Uber, and Airbnb. Of those Large Tech powerhouses, greater than half are WEF companions, together with Palantir, OpenAI, Fb, Stripe, LinkedIn, and Uber together with PayPal itself.
Finally, the PayPal Mafia would promote its fin-tech platform to eBay the place Marc Andreessen served on the eBay Board of Administrators. Andreessen would later resign when the e-commerce firm spun off PayPal again right into a separate company. Though Andreessen just isn’t an official PayPal mobster, his enterprise capital portfolio has regularly overlapped with these of PayPal godfathers, resembling Thiel and Sacks, whose frequent investments with Andreessen embrace Fb, LinkedIn, Stripe, Anduril, Airbnb, and Lyft together with Musk’s OpenAI, xAI, and SpaceX. Like Thiel, Andreessen not solely financed Vance’s Narya Capital, however he has additionally intertwined his technocratic tentacles all through President Trump’s govt workplaces and companies, that are likewise stuffed with former workers of Andreessen Horowitz, in any other case often known as “a16z.” These embrace:
Trump’s newly created Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) has additionally been crammed with former workers of firms owned by Musk, who reinstated Trump’s Twitter account and bankrolled Trump’s presidential comeback, incomes himself a place in Trump’s second administration because the Justice of the Peace of DOGE. Musk’s DOGE hirelings embrace no less than 30 former workers of SpaceX, xAI, X, Neuralink, Tesla, and/or the Boring Co. Amongst these DOGE officers are no less than two Musk cronies who’ve additionally been appointed by Trump to serve in different govt workplaces and companies, together with:
Different DOGE officers embrace no less than 4 former workers of Palantir and no less than one recipient of the Thiel Fellowship. As the pinnacle of DOGE, Musk outsourced to Palantir its stratagem “to construct a brand new ‘mega API’ for accessing Inner Income Service information” whereby Palantir’s Foundry AI platform may “grow to be the ‘learn middle of all IRS programs,’” in keeping with Wired. Exterior of DOGE, Musk’s xAI has partnered with Thiel’s Palantir “to Redefine Monetary Companies by means of Enterprise AI.” Earlier than exiting DOGE, Musk referred to as for the US Treasury to “be placed on the blockchain” with a purpose to “cease” an ostensible racket of “funds which can be fraudulent or don’t match the funding legal guidelines handed by Congress.”
However of all of the PayPal Mafia technocrats who’ve garnered Trump’s favor, it’s Sacks who wields probably the most command over the Trump administration’s scheme to overtake the American monetary system with blockchain DLTs and cryptocurrencies, together with stablecoins, by means of AI fin-tech. One among Trump’s earliest govt appointments, Sacks has been tapped to function the White Home AI and Crypto Czar and the Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Expertise (PCAST).
Sacks, like Thiel, holds a protracted a monitor document of stoking neo-conservative tradition wars and bankrolling Republican politicians, thus fueling the rise of the brand new model of rightwing jingoism that has metastasized into Trumpism. Each Sacks and Thiel have agitated neo-con tradition wars as editors of The Stanford Assessment and co-authors of a e-book titled The Range Fable, which was a forerunner to the wave of “anti-DEI” polemics that undergird Trumpism. Additionally like Thiel, Sacks has financed the enterprise capital companies and political campaigns of Vance, who can be a contributor to the Heritage Basis. Not solely did Sacks fund Vance’s Narya Capital, however he additionally donated $1 million to a political motion committee supporting Vance’s race for the Ohio Senate. Vance, who mentioned that Sacks is “one among my closest confidants,” was later really useful by Sacks to be Trump’s VP. As well as, Sacks put collectively a $12 million fundraiser to help Trump’s presidential comeback.
Throughout Sacks’s tenure as White Home AI and Crypto Czar, he has collaborated along with his “shut enterprise affiliate,” Glenn Gilmore, to assist Donald Trump Jr. arrange a personal pay-to-play “eating membership” for rightwing elites, together with enterprise tycoons and politicians. Charging as much as $500,000 per membership, the “Government Department Membership” offers an unique venue the place potential lobbyists of company particular pursuits can “join” with Trump’s cupboard and different high-level govt officers “with out media interference.” For examples, the inaugural assembly of the Government Department Membership hosted such cupboard officers as Commerce Secretary Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Training Secretary Linda McMahon, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. together with Sacks himself. Additionally in attendance had been such company oligarchs as Keith Rabois, who’s a PayPal Mafia mobster; Jensen Huang, who’s the founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA; and two of “the world’s richest crypto billionaires,” Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who based the cryptocurrency trade, Gemini, which has been charged with “promoting unregistered securities” by the US Securities and Alternate Fee.
However considerations that Sacks’s “member No. 1” standing within the Government Department Membership poses conflicts of curiosity along with his official capability as White Home AI and Crypto Czar, representatives of the membership have assured that “Sacks has no monetary curiosity within the Government Department Membership, straight or not directly. His involvement has been reviewed and accredited by authorities ethics attorneys.”
As AI and Crypto Czar, Sacks has been appointed by Trump to chair the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets in accordance with Government Order (EO) 14178: “Strengthening American Management in Digital Monetary Expertise.” Part 1 of EO 14178 states that “[i]t is due to this fact the coverage of my [Trump’s] Administration to help the accountable development and use of digital property, blockchain know-how, and associated applied sciences throughout all sectors of the economic system.” Though Part 5 decrees the “Prohibition of Central Financial institution Digital Currencies [CBDCs],” Part 4 stipulates that the Working Group on Digital Asset Markets “shall suggest a Federal regulatory framework governing the issuance and operation of digital property, together with stablecoins, in the USA.” Whereas stablecoins are issued by firms, industrial depository establishments, or “decentralized autonomous organizations” (DAOs), relatively than central banks, they’re nonetheless cryptocurrencies that may be digitally anchored to nationwide currencies issued by central banks. Like CBDCs, stablecoins will also be digitally programmed for government-restricted purchases by means of blockchain sensible contracts.
Simply 4 months earlier than Trump decreed EO 14178, he and his sons launched a stablecoin company, World Liberty Monetary, with the assistance of Steve Witkoff, who now serves because the US State Division Particular Envoy to the Center East. World Liberty Monetary, which can be bankrolled by “crypto billionaire” Justin Solar, has launched the USD1 stablecoin: a cryptocurrency that has its worth affixed to that of the fiat US greenback. Different US dollar-linked stablecoins embrace PYUSD, which is issued by PayPal; USDT, which is issued by Tether and has been backed by Trump’s Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick; and RLUSD, which is issued by Ripple and is supported by Bullish: a cryptocurrency trade backed by Thiel. Moreover, Thiel can be invested in Ubyx, which is a stablecoin clearing system, and Plasma, which is a blockchain platform that’s “purpose-built for stablecoins.”
Greenlighting authorities regulation of stablecoins, Trump has signed into legislation the “Guiding and Establishing Nationwide Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act,” which allows federally insured “depository establishments,” resembling industrial banks, and “nonbank entities” to challenge “cost stablecoins” that may legally “be used as a method of cost or settlement.” Licensed stablecoin issuers should again their excellent stablecoins at a “1 to 1” fee with reserves that have to be comprised of high-quality liquid property, resembling “United States cash and foreign money (together with Federal Reserve notes)” or “Treasury payments, notes, or bonds.” Only a few weeks earlier than Trump signed the GENIUS Act, Mastercard introduced its plans to improve the “Mastercard Multi-Token Community,” which “is constructed to energy programmable funds and stablecoin settlement,” so as “to help a rising portfolio of regulated stablecoins from issuers all over the world.”
Along with federalizing stablecoins, Trump has additionally drafted provisions for nationwide authorities stockpiling of digital asset reserves comprised of non-stable cryptocurrencies. Part 4 of Trump’s EO 14178 directs Sacks and the remainder of his Working Group on Digital Asset Markets to “consider the potential creation and upkeep of a nationwide digital asset stockpile and suggest standards for establishing such a stockpile, probably derived from cryptocurrencies lawfully seized by the Federal Authorities by means of its legislation enforcement efforts.” Subsequently, on March 6th, 2025, Trump issued EO 14233, “Institution of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile,” which directs Sacks’s Working Group to place collectively “a full accounting of all Authorities Digital Property” that may be transferred to a US “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” or a US “Digital Asset Stockpile.” 5 days after the decree of EO 14233, the “Boosting Innovation, Expertise, and Competitiveness by means of Optimized Funding Nationwide (BITCOIN) Act,” which codifies into Federal legislation the federal government institution of a nationwide “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” was launched within the US Home of Representatives.
Though neither a reserve nor a stockpile has but been formalized, Trump publicly pronounced by means of his “Fact Social” platform that the US “Crypto Strategic Reserve” will maintain a cache of Bitcoin (BTC) and different non-stable cryptocurrencies, together with Ethereum’s ETH, Ripple’s XRP, and Solana’s SOL, every of which has been backed by a number of of the PayPal Mafia kingpins behind Trump. As an example, Thiel has poured a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} into BTC and ETH, and he additionally supplied startup funding for OpenCoin, which might later grow to be Ripple. Actually, the Ethereum blockchain community is the brainchild of a Thiel Fellowship recipient, Vitalik Buterin. Like Thiel, Sacks additionally invested a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} into ETH and BTC together with SOL earlier than reportedly divesting simply previous to accepting his appointment as White Home AI and Crypto Czar. Moreover, Musk has additionally said that he personally holds BTC and ETH whereas his SpaceX and Tesla firms individually personal BTC holdings that collectively whole greater than $2 billion. Orbiting the PayPal Mafia nexus, Andreessen Horowitz’s portfolio has additionally included Solana and Ripple’s predecessor, OpenCoin.
Different blockchain and crypto fin-tech enterprises backed by PayPal Mafia bosses and adjoining VC technocrats embrace Layer N, which has been financed by Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Bitwise, which is bankrolled by Sacks’s Craft Ventures, together with Coinbase, Alchemy, OpenSea, Uniswap, and Maker, that are funded by Andreessen Horowitz. As well as, Dogecoin has been propped up by Musk, who’s aspiring to revive his outdated X fin-tech company by means of his revamped model of Twitter. Partnering with Visa, Musk is aiming to improve his X-branded Twitter from a social media platform into an “all the pieces app” that can combine an “X Funds” digital market streamlined with “X Wallets” and “X Cash” primed to be denominated in crypto tokens by means of blockchain ledgers. It’s price noting right here that Andreessen Horowitz, which is a company member of the Blockchain and Digital Property Initiative of the WEF’s Middle for Monetary and Financial Techniques, helped finance Musk’s buy of Twitter. It’s also price noting that Bilderberger and WEF member Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAI with Musk, launched the Worldcoin cryptocurrency, which requires biometric authentication.
In sum, the PayPal Mafia oligarchs and VC disruptors behind Trump’s federal crypto improvements have been laying the groundwork for the 4IR fin-tech economic system by pumping up probably the most worthwhile crypto cash whereas bankrolling probably the most important blockchain networks, digital wallets, and crypto trade platforms. To make certain, the digital pockets trade round college selection subsidies is indispensable to the blockchain–crypto infrastructure of the rising 4IR economic system, which is being equipped for the tokenization of all public subsidies by means of stablecoins that may be programmed by AI for government-restricted purchases. By interfacing public-private college selection partnerships by means of digital wallets that may intermediate stablecoin transactions, Trump is successfully synergizing the technocratic ambitions of the PayPal Mafia with the corporatist targets of the Koch-SPN cartel behind Venture 2025 with a purpose to advance stakeholder capitalism by means of 4IR blockchain and crypto fin-tech. Certainly, Trump’s push for varsity selection fin-tech and stablecoins emblemizes the corporate-technocratic convergence of the neo-conservative, beltway-libertarian, and VC Silicon Valley arms of the Republican Occasion coalescing to usher in programmable crypto and blockchain data-tracking for AI social credit score cybernetics within the 4IR.
The Ed-Tech/Fin-Tech Matrix of AI Social Credit score Algocracy
The digital pockets trade round college selection corporatization just isn’t solely integral to blockchain stakeholder capitalism within the crypto fin-tech economic system of the 4IR, however additionally it is integral to cybernetic surveillance capitalism within the AI social credit score technocracy of the 4IR. By synergizing fin-tech with ed-tech by means of AI, digital pockets ledgers and studying algorithms could be cross-analyzed to extract statistical correlations between college selection subsidies and pupil outcomes. Within the ultimate equation, fin-tech/ed-tech suggestions loops could be data-mined by AI to extrapolate predictive social credit score analytics that decide not solely how ESAs, tax-credited “scholarships,” and different college selection subsidies are allotted to college students, but in addition how instructional services are prescribed to college students in accordance with their 4IR “profession pathways” curriculums.
Setting the stage for the AI fusion of fin-tech and ed-tech, Trump proclaimed his mission to make the US the “world capital of synthetic intelligence and crypto” throughout his particular handle to the WEF 2025 Annual Assembly. To attain this mission, Trump directed AI and Crypto Czar Sacks to develop a federal authorities “AI Motion Plan” in accordance with EO 14179: “Eradicating Obstacles to American Management in Synthetic Intelligence.” Trump additionally appointed Sacks to serve alongside the US Secretary of Training, Linda McMahon, on the White Home Process Power on Synthetic Intelligence Training in accordance with EO 14277: “Advancing Synthetic Intelligence Training for American Youth.” In Profitable the Race: America’s AI Motion Plan, Sacks directs the US Departments of Labor and Commerce to collectively institute an “AI Workforce Analysis Hub” to “produce recurring analyses, conduct state of affairs planning for a variety of potential AI affect ranges, and generate actionable insights to tell workforce and training coverage.” It’s price noting right here that Sacks composed America’s AI Motion Plan with Thiel hireling Michael Kratsios, who’s the Director of the White Home Workplace of Science and Expertise Coverage.
To advance cybernetic centralization of school-to-work planning beneath the directives of Sacks, McMahon, and Lutnick in accordance with EO 14277 and America’s AI Motion Plan, 68 know-how firms have signed Trump’s White Home “Pledge to America’s Youth: Investing in AI Training.” These embrace multinational ed-tech firms, resembling Pearson, together with Large Tech firms, resembling Accenture, Adobe, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Cognizant, Dell, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Salesforce, all of which accomplice or collaborate with the WEF. Different Large Tech pledgers embrace the American department of the SAP mum or dad firm, which companions with the WEF, together with NVIDIA and OpenAI, the latter of which is one other WEF accomplice that has additionally been funded by Thiel and Andreessen. Different ed-tech pledgers embrace McGraw Hill, Cengage, Ed Expertise Specialists, and Intelligent, the latter of which has additionally been funded by Thiel.
Racing to achieve “world AI dominance,” President Trump is leveraging Thiel’s Palantir, which has maintained US authorities contracts all through the Obama and Biden administrations, working AI programs, resembling Foundry and Gotham, throughout federal departments and companies, together with the Division of Protection, the Division of Homeland Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Inner Income Service (IRS), the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA), the Facilities for Illness Management (CDC), the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH), HHS, and Musk’s DOGE. In line with the New York Occasions, “Palantir representatives have additionally held talks with the Social Safety Administration and the Division of Training to make use of the corporate’s know-how to prepare the companies’ information.” It’s price noting right here that Palantir was seeded with enterprise capital from the Central Intelligence Company’s In-Q-Tel.
It’s also price noting that Trump’s Normal Companies Administration has reportedly been getting ready, beneath the management of Musk hireling Thomas Shedd, to make the most of the brand new “AI.gov” web site to launch “[t]hree highly effective AI instruments” conglomerated into “[o]ne built-in platform” with a purpose to “[a]ccelerate authorities innovation with AI.” Though the official URL at present solely posts Trump’s “AI Motion Plan,” EOs, and pledges, an archived webpage information that the pilot website had beforehand deliberate to interlink an “AI assistant,” an analytics instrument referred to as “Console,” and an “all-in-one API,” which might interface with “top-tier AI fashions from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.” Within the interim, OpenAI has been tapped by Trump to spearhead his Stargate AI infrastructure challenge, which is embarking to assemble supercomputing information facilities throughout the nation.
Briefly, the Trump authorities is piecing collectively a pan-federal panoply of AI cybernetics by means of public-private partnerships with Large Tech firms which have been propped up by the identical PayPal plutocrats and enterprise capitalists who’ve likewise shored up the blockchain-crypto fin-tech enterprises that are concurrently being onboarded by the Trump regime. On high of ramping up the 4IR amalgamation of AI-tech and fin-tech, Trump’s PayPal Mafia bosses and their VC associates have additionally financed ed-tech merchandise that data-mine suggestions loops from student-learning analytics primed for psychological profiling and social credit score scoring. For examples:
- Sacks’s Craft Ventures has bankrolled Course Hero, which has acquired Symbolab: “a totally automated platform” that makes use of “adaptive studying” and different “machine studying algorithms” to streamline “AI-driven personalised studying” by means of cognitive-behavioral suggestions loops.
Altogether, the PayPal technocrats and VC disruptors behind Trump have been financing the foundational ed-tech, fin-tech, and AI-tech constructing blocks essential to assemble the 4IR social credit score cybernetics that the Trump regime is now putting in. Full velocity forward, Trump and his Tech Barons are on the right track to improve college selection fin-tech from digital wallets to blockchain DLTs that log college students’ studying algorithms and switch programmable stablecoins which could be tracked and traced by AI to calculate predictive social credit score analytics based mostly on correlations between corporate-government monetary inputs and training outcomes. Dawning the “Golden Age” of the 4IR, the social credit score merger of ed-tech, fin-tech, and AI-tech is the endgame Trump card that can manifest a techno-fascist dream come true for the PayPal Mafia and the Koch-SPN syndicate. Welcome to the College World Order.
