Is It Fair to Think of Information and Power as One and the Same?

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Is it fair to think of, in the geneva school framework, information and power being being one and the same? Riti: The fact that hiak doesn't see inequality as a problem that would potentially undermine his whole system suggests that his whole system is designed to prevent the problem of equality and equality from challenging it.

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