"And the only sustainable way to keep mega-billionaires from having so much power, so much ability to degrade democracy, is for them not to be so wealthy."
but that's only because of how our media ecosystem works. too many embrace structures that allow wealthy media owners to decide what people see and for money to be spent to get attention. a mass movement to decentralized media and decentralized social media could also fix this and is now possible.
#DemocracyOfReach
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-shows-us-why-oligarchy
william ⁂ maggos
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