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Reaction, after skimming the article... "Technoauthoritarianism" is just click-bait. And/or a sign that The Atlantic utterly clueless about history. Or at least they want to keep their readers utterly clueless about history.

Whether you're looking at today's FAANG's, or the United Fruit Company of the earlier 1900's, or the businesses (Standard Oil, etc.) broken up via the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, or the British East India Company, or ..., or tax farming back in Ancient Rome, or ... - the stories are extremely similar.




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