Back in the early 20th century, companies needed licensing, would sell their product nationally. They were on the toolbelt of the government. Now companies are global and they are the ones who choose government; they don’t even sell anything tangible anymore. They just say: “Let’s organize to build these lot of datacenters, we’ll organize it for you.”, and they do it worldwide. No need to bring in value, they’re just “politicians without borders”.

TechnARCHY, not -ocracy: it’s feudalism, just by tech-elite, not everybody-voting-as-equals which the -ocracy suffix would imply…

Feudalism by a slightly-different standard, & technologically-enforced class/caste system: unbreakable concentration-of-rights-authorities-wealths-and-privileges to the owners/rulers.

Yeah, it’s inevitable SO LONG AS government is by & for “the owners”, as that Aussie bizman called the economic-rulers of the world…

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It’s theoretically possible for government to be evidence-based, objective, for the good of the world, etc, but that would take far more spine than the ideologies would permit, far more than the political selects-for-DarkTriad process would permit.

Human-narcissism being the relentless underlying mover-&-shaker of the whole thing.

The change required is more fundamental… probably more-fundamental than humankind would allow.

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