Today’s Tech Oligarchs Are Worse Than the Robber Barons

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11. +100. I don't think we differ at all in our worry

about the structural weakness of an unmotivated electorate. In fact, to judge by this forum one might think that what should be despair at the loss of democracy is actually manifesting as complacency.

Btw, that article also mentions those who prefer that others make their decisions for them.

I liked this:

And there are some funny examples in the list of middle-class victories. For instance, the middle class got what they wanted on public financing of elections: in all three 1990s surveys included in the Gilens data, they opposed it, while the rich favor it. That matches up with more recent research showing that wealthy people are more supportive of public election funding.