Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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the strange ontology of power
Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
Corruption begins when reward outpaces responsibility, reflecting the tendency of complex communication systems to abbreviate consequence and concentrate advantage.
Freedom is easy to celebrate in theory and much harder to preserve in practice.
Australia’s political speed-dating with One Nation suggests that what has happened in the USA is not an exception, it is a franchised political method.