As Antonin Scalia (Supreme Court Justice) said to the US Senate ..."learning to love the gridlock"
"And I hear Americans saying this nowadays, and there's a lot of it going around. They talk about a "dysfunctional government" because there's disagreement.
And the Framers would have said, "Yes, that's exactly the way we set it up. We wanted this to be power contradicting power -- because the main ill that beset us" -- as Hamilton said in The Federalist when he talked about a separate Senate -- He said, "Yes, it seems inconvenient, but inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation, it won't be so bad."
This is 1787 -- he didn't know what an excess of legislation was."
Yep, too bad individual states don't seem to have the same guardrails. States that are d/d/d or r/r/r have free reign to pass whatever they want based on which way the wind blows.
What advancements? Shoveling more money to the top via new middlemen we don't need like Uber and Airbnb? Mortgage backed securities? Blackrock's business model? For profit prisons?
Moving money does not mean advancement in humanity or quality of life for every one.
Yeah... having multiple trillon dollar companies doesnt have any advantage at all... High paying jobs? Taxes? Brain drain? No getting your citizens data exposed to other countries? Nope, nothing.
It's more of the same historical shit, wealth concentrated into a few individual with their cast around them, living in their bubble. History is full of stories like this and it never ends well.
Trillion dollars companies are not an achievement, it's a symptom.
Strictly use Meta as an example, since the HN crowd loves to bash them, during the same two decades they've released Presto, PyTorch, React, llama. Can you see SOME advancements?