Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This time series shows the same pattern emerging over and over: as the rich get ...
This time series shows the same pattern emerging over and over: as the rich get richer, they capture more and more of the state's policy-making apparatus, triggering more wealth-friendly policies, which make them even richer, and makes their grip on policy stronger. This continues until inequality reaches a tipping point, and then you a rupture, like the French Revolution, or the World Wars.
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