https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/time-to-pause-and-reflect
The threat is what political scientists call autocratic state capture - that they will take control of institutions that should belong to everyone, and transform them into institutions that serve them and their cronies, either politically or financially. In the US we also face a specific version of this threat: unaccountable tech oligarchs may begin to shape our economic and foreign policy in ways that benefit them personally, but are bad for the rest of us.
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