[fooop]

the world these days is becoming more and more medieval: many different actors, all competing with one another, at different levels of power.

Imo, it's a good thing: regular ppl will be more suspicious about power overall and not make as many bad safety/convenience trades.

[j45]

Assuming people are educated and aware enough to begin with to recognize and then deal with it.

The right to read was literally only locked up a few hundred years ago.

[fooop]

these things are much more transparent than us experts like to think they are - people making "uneducated" decisions are often just making decisions that don't fall in line with the expectations of the "educated". Power is legible regardless of whether you know how to read or not (or code (or do immunological research)).