@scheidegger i don't think automation is quite that deterministic. sometimes technology (almost all of which is loosely automation) decentralizes power, for better and for worse. recent developments in military tech have, for example, has dramatically reduced US ability to protect navigation — see the Red Sea right now — by "democratizing" (a ridiculous use of a ridiculous word) technological projection of power. 1/

@scheidegger i think we have let automation concentrate power, by virtue of how we have organized markets and tolerated network effects to accrue to private actors. technology certainly isn't neutral, we aren't left with unconstrained choice about how or whether to use it, but its also an error to assume we have no or very little agency in shaping the world technological change ushers in. /fin