It's quite hard to look at the current situations with Musk and Twitter, Bezos and the WaPo, and the LA Times as anything other than evidence that the extreme consolidation of wealth is itself a grave and direct threat to society

[rjmccall@hachyderm.io]

It's quite hard to look at the current situations with Musk and Twitter, Bezos and the WaPo, and the LA Times as anything other than evidence that the extreme consolidation of wealth is itself a grave and direct threat to society

[leroy@indiehackers.social]

@rjmccall and it has history! I believe it was the Bagan Empire (my memory is fuzzy now) that had extreme wealth concentration into temples which resulted in an ineffective government that could no longer serve the public:

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2022/10/02/episode-16-is-now-live/