Yes, business interests are adept at using any sort of progress as an opportunity for instituting authoritarian frameworks to increase their centralized power.

Yes, business interests are adept at using any sort of progress as an opportunity for instituting authoritarian frameworks to increase their centralized power. We could have had a world where racial discrimination was prohibited and financial surveillance bureaus were illegal. Instead they're just slowly remaking a stratified society in formal terms of information processing rather than ad hoc by skin color.