You call that an extreme example, but I say "watch that happen by 2030 at the rate we're going". It's rather frightening how so many people on Hacker News eith

You call that an extreme example, but I say "watch that happen by 2030 at the rate we're going". It's rather frightening how so many people on Hacker News either are completely unaware that this is a thing that any party of power wants to be able to do, or think that society wouldn't let it happen, even as parties in power remove all means of leverage against them.