I think if the nation-state wants to keep existing as a meaningful power structure, it will have to start merking CEOs or at least get serious about enforcing their damned laws.
The difference is they no longer feel constrained by public appearances, which IS a new development. Carnegie was an asshole but he knew that public opinion mattered.
the traditional levers of power are becoming inadequate.
The traditional ones were violence.
I think if the nation-state wants to keep existing as a meaningful power structure, it will have to start merking CEOs or at least get serious about enforcing their damned laws.
Because the wealthy have become more powerful than the levers. Someone 99% tax is looking real good.
They never were adequate.
The difference is they no longer feel constrained by public appearances, which IS a new development. Carnegie was an asshole but he knew that public opinion mattered.
This change is the cancer metastasizing
prove me wrong