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LeopoldBloom · M
Concentration of wealth into the hands of a tiny transnational elite. The only force that can resist this is government, but as these individuals (or corporations) control government, they become immune to regulation. We're nowhere near the point where they're actually in control, but we are moving in the direction of a worldwide feudal monarchy. And unfortunately, absolute monarchies are very stable. What broke the power of the last ones in Europe was the Black Death, which led to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the modern world.