Ted Chiang has an essay that also compares our current era to the gilded age: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-becom

Ted Chiang has an essay that also compares our current era to the gilded age: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intel... It's ostensibly about AI but the deeper issue is concentration of wealth and power. Banning one harmful social media company (e.g. TikTok) does nothing to change the incentive structure. As long as harmful social media remains profitable, it will continue.