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The Gilded Age robber barons were ruthless. They bought legislators and hired strikebreakers. But they couldn't control what farmers thought about them. Tarbell exposed Standard Oil. Sinclair's Jungle changed federal law. The media was too diffuse to control. That's no longer true.

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

When the monopolist owns the megaphone, the playbook breaks. Today, the tools we'd use to organize resistance are controlled by the forces we need to resist. We're forced onto digital terrain owned by the people we're trying to rein in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RC...

youtube.comAndor | Luthen Rael’s Monologue | Disney+YouTube video by Star Wars

29/1/26, 8:33 pm1 repost3 likes

Christopher Allbritton

@christopherallbritton.com

29 Jan

The system needing reform is the same system that prevents reformers from organizing. Super pumped to publish a new essay for @niskanencenter.bsky.social on why the fourth industrial revolution resists political response… and why we should build capacity anyway.

hypertext.niskanencenter.orgThe fragmentation flywheelWhy the Fourth Industrial Revolution resists political response