SpaceX IPO briefly made Elon the world's first trillionaire on paper, while Anthropic's Fable model was banned by the White House over jailbreak vulnerabilities and alleged Chinese access—exposing Silicon Valley's broken relationship with government and the rise of AI gatekeeping by hyperscalers. Economic mobility and human agency are destroyed when governments replace markets with entitlements, creating learned helplessness rather than empowerment. SpaceX's $2 trillion valuation reflects discounted future value creation from machines that make things, not cash sitting in accounts; Elon's wealth is entirely paper-based and vulnerable to market shifts. Anthropic's self-righteous safety posturing and poor communication with the White House enabled hyperscalers like Amazon to position themselves as trusted gatekeepers, creating an AI oligopoly that will require ID verification and government approval. The Iran nuclear deal removes enriched uranium stockpiles and imposes a decade-plus delay on weapons development, making it preferable to ground invasion or endless bombing campaigns.