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by griomnib 518 days ago
The CEOs and investor class are the elites. Politicians answer to them, not the other way around.
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I think you misunderstood me to be talking about just the politicians. Mark is claiming the gov is going to limit new entrants and give an effective monopoly to the large, established entities with political power.

When the US applied arms export restrictions on cryptography mathematics during the cold war, they gave exceptions to companies like IBM.