Stu on Nostr: There’s a natural visceral fear when someone you distrust has power over you. A lot ...
There’s a natural visceral fear when someone you distrust has power over you. A lot of people distrust Trump.
But the US system is designed with a powerful immune system. It’s very difficult to do a lot. It’s a system designed around incremental adjustments.
One thing I don’t think a lot of people acknowledge is that Elon is only 52 and he’s going to be around for 30-40 years, long after all the politicians come and go several times over. That’s an awful lot of incremental adjustments.
The politicians are disposable.
Term limits really empower the financiers and you have Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Gates all there and to a slightly lesser extent Ellison and Buffett who have less time.
Losing power to the plutocrats like this is a consequence of ignoring anti trust cases, America turned a blind eye just because the monopolists were US based and because the US benefited.
Americans were a bit too happy to have the rest of the world pay the Google and Apple tax and didn’t see the bigger risk. I doubt people really notice for another decade, but the post-2008 world has now fallen back into Namoi Klein’s model where capital controls government.
You won’t get power back until the internet dies and the electorate drifts offline and thinks for itself, which I suspect will eventually happen as people get jaded by bots and fakery, but not for a generation or more.
But the US system is designed with a powerful immune system. It’s very difficult to do a lot. It’s a system designed around incremental adjustments.
One thing I don’t think a lot of people acknowledge is that Elon is only 52 and he’s going to be around for 30-40 years, long after all the politicians come and go several times over. That’s an awful lot of incremental adjustments.
The politicians are disposable.
Term limits really empower the financiers and you have Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Gates all there and to a slightly lesser extent Ellison and Buffett who have less time.
Losing power to the plutocrats like this is a consequence of ignoring anti trust cases, America turned a blind eye just because the monopolists were US based and because the US benefited.
Americans were a bit too happy to have the rest of the world pay the Google and Apple tax and didn’t see the bigger risk. I doubt people really notice for another decade, but the post-2008 world has now fallen back into Namoi Klein’s model where capital controls government.
You won’t get power back until the internet dies and the electorate drifts offline and thinks for itself, which I suspect will eventually happen as people get jaded by bots and fakery, but not for a generation or more.