The space-cum-artificial intelligence company SpaceX just went public at an eye-watering valuation —the largest in history—making its founder, Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire. In the same stretch of days, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the average American worker had lost a year and a half of wage gains as of May. Two more frontier labs, Anthropic and OpenAI, are lined up to raise fortunes of their own, even as trust in the technology craters and anxieties about job