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This is not a trade war, it's about the power balance between consumers, corporations and governments.
by rvense 3y ago
This is not a trade war, it's about the power balance between consumers, corporations and governments.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoCan't give upvotes, but +1 for this insightful framing. The "Police and thieves in the street" problem as I call it, is that in most discussions we hear about the two big noisy players duking it out for control. In reality it's a three way struggle. By far the largest and most powerful group is often completely silent and omitted from the analysis. "Consumers" or "Voters" (although I would prefer the term "people") are subsumed into the other camps, each claiming to "represent" the people. Yet the silent, overwhelming majority are starting to reclaim a voice of their own. This is a worrying sign. Not because people shouldn't have a voice, but because it shows clearly that at best, governments and commercial markets are failing to represent the actual interests of people. Perhaps we've become complacent allowing plurality of power structures, unions, assemblies, societies etc to weaken?
- bryanrasmussen 3y ago>"Consumers" or "Voters" (although I would prefer the term "people") are subsumed into the other camps, each claiming to "represent" the people. Citizens?
- nonrandomstring 3y agoYes "citizens" is good - hence "civic cybersecurity" as a placeholder for what I believe in [0]. But many countries do not officially recognise "citizenship". For example, in Britain (UK) we remain "subjects" although "citizen" is used in official documents. Maybe splitting hairs; but I don't want to assume that everyone in the world enjoys such a privileged status. [0] http://www.icicte.org/assets/icicte2019_5.4_farnell.pdf http://www.icicte.org/assets/icicte2019_5.4_farnell.pdf