Elite capture is the “presence of unequal access to power...and consequently the ability to influence the transfer of funds/resources disproportionately” toward outcomes that benefit those with access.

Here, funds/resources mean currency, so in some situations they can refer to things like housing and healthcare but they can also refer to... See more

Once algorithms mediate communication, employment, welfare, policing and public discourse, they become political institutions. The power structure is feudal, comprising a small corporate elite that holds decision-making power justified by special expertise and the imagined urgency of existential risk, while citizens and taxpayers are told they... See more

Why Nations Fail is a bit longer than The Communist Manifesto , but it is essentially The Bourgeois Manifesto . Merchants having become wealthy from the Atlantic trade win property rights in England, already primed for this breakthrough. Resultant regime called inclusive , though the merchants were primarily slavers.

They will underline however... See more