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Well, while my views on economics are still libertarian, there's one trait of very complex and interconnected systems, like market economies (as opposed to Soviet-style planned economy, say, which was still arcanely complex, but with fewer connections to track in analysis, even considering black markets, barter, unofficial negotiations etc), - it's never clear how centralized it really is and it's never clear what it's going to become.
It's funny how dystopian things from all extremes of that "political compass" thing come into reality. Turns out you don't need to pick one, it can suck all ways. Matches well what one would expect from learning about world history, of course.
What I'm trying to say is that power is power, not matter what's written in any laws. The only thing resembling a cure is keeping as much of it as possible distributed at all times. A few decades from now it may be found again, and then after some time forgotten again.
Whatever we got is deff not distributed in any sense of the term lol
That's my point.
The popular idea that you can avoid giving power to the average person, giving it all to some bureaucracy, or big companies in some industry, or some institutions, and yelling "rule of law", has come to its logical conclusion.
Where bureaucrats become sort of a mafia\aristocracy layer, big companies become oligopolies entangled with everything wrong, and institutions sell their decisions rather cheap.