Financial Times Discovers Globalism Has Consequences, 40 Years Later
When the FT opines on the 'new age of tech autocrats,' it's like a fireman complaining about the smell of smoke after fanning the flames for forty years. They'll lament the rise of centralized power and surveillance states, conveniently omitting their own role in championing the very policies that enabled these tools to flourish for neoliberal expansion. Perhaps if the world’s leading financial
journalists spent less time celebrating market fundamentalism and more time scrutinizing unchecked corporate power and the revolving door between Silicon Valley and Langley, they might have seen this coming. This isn't a new age; it's the logical conclusion of the age they so proudly built.