A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.
@rbreich
The world is now what mid-18th C England was like. But with nowhere to deport the unwashed (i.e. the 97%)

@Skirnir @rbreich That's why borders are so heavily policed now - no need to deport the poor, they're already locked in to their "third world" countries.

Try to escape, and you'll just be towed back. Someone has to work that assembly line and produce consumables for the imperial core!

@Audr3y @rbreich
As my profile intimates, given the current trajectory, we'll be lucky to have an Orwellian future. Even 1984 seems optimistic - at least folks had food, jobs and housing