A 1970s Essay Predicted Silicon Valley's High-Minded Tyranny

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-- C. S. Lewis

Readers of this article might be interested in the various discussions of Jo Freeman's essay on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=THE%20TYRANNY%20of%20STRUCTURE...

The most recent was this one, four months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17585104

Exactly the reason why Communism/Socialism fails.

In these political/social systems, The Powers That Be are informal and no one can challenge them, leading to all sorts of distortion of the socioeconomic system.