And I hardly see people noticing that such concentration of power can in itself be a problem.
Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done. If you take robert Moses, the concentration of power around him was problematic but he got things build.
Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.
As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.
“Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done.”
Sure some amount of power may be productive, but very high concentration of power can be problematic, for example as it puts people on the powerful person’s Mercy.
“Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.”
I assume “feature” in this cases means correlate, not cause.
“As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.”
This is hard to compare. Influencing opinions is relevant.
I would also say that Musk’s tweets are informative in forming expectations about what he might use control of strategically important technologies for in the future. In general, I would prefer if a person did not have infinite power to determine the ability of societies to act, and I guess there is an amount of power lower than infinite at which this becomes problematic.
Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done. If you take robert Moses, the concentration of power around him was problematic but he got things build.
Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.
As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.
“Concentration of power is problematic but it’s also necessary for things getting done.”
Sure some amount of power may be productive, but very high concentration of power can be problematic, for example as it puts people on the powerful person’s Mercy.
“Fear of concentration of power on individual people is one core feature of the Great Stagnation.”
I assume “feature” in this cases means correlate, not cause.
“As far as Musk’s retweeting goes, it’s impact is not very large compared to the the effects of projects like Starship.”
This is hard to compare. Influencing opinions is relevant.
I would also say that Musk’s tweets are informative in forming expectations about what he might use control of strategically important technologies for in the future. In general, I would prefer if a person did not have infinite power to determine the ability of societies to act, and I guess there is an amount of power lower than infinite at which this becomes problematic.