This is basically the central question of cyberpunk: when corporations and governments concentrate power, who holds them accountable, and who protects ordinary people from being crushed by the systems they create?
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These stories have been exploring the dangers of unchecked power, surveillance, and institutional control for decades.
And perhaps the same principle applies to how we perceive power itself: to those who can afford a ticket, a magician’s performance is dazzling; to those who can’t, he may seem like nothing more than a fraud.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.