if we, as christians, really believe that God acts in history: the fact that markets have lifted billions of lives from suffering is anything but a neutral datapoint. its strong evidence that free markets are a core part of his grace and part of our role in tending to creation

there's an incredible tom wolfe interview from '97 where he makes the point that "business leaders" (his term) are so terrified of tackling questions of faith and morals that they replicate parallel secular institutions (the met board) as boy scout badges of moral worth

if you accept the premise that some form of internet technology (maybe ai, maybe not) will change the world for a meaningful % of people, you cannot sit back and allow whoever steps up to govern its morals. look at what happened when 90s finance did that, they got satan.