Power is either in concentration mode or diffusion mode. When certain people perceive the pie is not growing anymore, they switch to power concentration strateg

Power is either in concentration mode or diffusion mode. When certain people perceive the pie is not growing anymore, they switch to power concentration strategies to get bigger slices of the pie. The winners take over, become the new feudal lords, etc. I'd argue the switch in the US happened sometime around the mid to late 60's and started showing up in the policy of the 70s: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ What happened was the United States became, for all intents and purposes, post-scarcity. We had enough stuff, now it was a game of who got it. "Feudal" approaches to running corporations and is because Democracy isn't about being the most competitive, so of course it isn't right for an economically incentivized business. It is making an intentional trade-off from efficiency for long-run stability and human dignity. Feudalism is playing a finite game (you must win). Democracy is trying to play an infinite one (you must make it to the next turn).