Au contraire, I think we’ll soon see $10,000 self contained boxes (512 GB Mac Studio, basically) that you plug in to a LAN and have infinite inference.

People pay for cars and trucks (same cost scale) globally as they’re profit-generators for every user (as far as giving them access to jobs).

This is the same.

Yeah, so it's just business as usual: If you have ungodly amounts of money, you can essentially do anything, and if you don't, you can't. It's always been this way, and it'll always be this way. I don't see this as a world-ending issue.

The sovereignty part of that may have more to do with access to users' data and interactions by law-enforcement and intelligence surveillance.

It's the same as energy sovereignty.