• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The article itself is pretty good, but “techno-authoritarian” is pretty meaningless. For most, I tend to describe it as techno-feudalism. Authoritarianism is a vague term that just means a certain group has authority. Totalitarianism means the group has total authority. Techno-feudalism is a reemergence of owners of private capital existing as the state. Because that’s mostly their goal. It was super obvious with Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans