Ina vontero asks a very philosophical question, i suppose, about the nature of agency and freedom. She says we've grown up in democracies that at least seem to be accountable to their populations. With big tech getting so much more control of the way our societies are run, whilst their accountability and tax payments to us are arguably negl able. Can any single country, let and alone any single politician, change anything? Sounds like she is a republican yesell, exactly. Is just that i may be more optimistic than you.

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