We are now in a timeline where dramatic concerns are legitimate. I would love to be proven wrong on this, but there's plenty of clues to show that I'm not.
We are now well on our way to George Orwell's 1984 dystopia.
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-num...
1. The economy goes bad quickly as actoes realize they cant rely on data to make rational economic decisions.
2. Certain actors pay some quasi-governmental organization (say, "Friends of Mar-a-Lago Book Club") to get access to more accurate data, on the agreement that they make the stock market go brrrr, and they continue to make money.
Obviously different data and utilization, but as economic models require accurate data to forecast accurately, it could be a cascading effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating_agencies_and_the...