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What Is the Power of the Machine?
The hardest aspect of contemporary society to comprehend is that we live in a capitalist world where power has been concentrated tremendously inside the confines of a new form of capital without any human being. If you look at Musk on a minute-by-minute basis, if you actually watch him work, you can see that he's very constrained. He doesn't feel like somebody who can do anything. Similar to Jeff Bezos, he's got hundreds of billions stashed away in terms of wealth but he too feels constrained. So this is a great tragedy in the great politics, a black and ancient Greek tragedy. And it's the nature of the game which extracts power from the many, concentrates in the hands