"Zuckerberg comments that people do not really need privacy anymore while buying himself a Fortress of Solitude" :-)
It’s all very nice of course. But here are the richest people on the planet, by grotesque margins, and all that gets is more square feet and a nice site?
Take a look at this: https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farml...
These people are basically our modern day version of the feudal lords of the past. Definitely not like normal people, despite the houses looking like that. They have a lot of power.
Who lives here? [1]
[1] https://earth.google.com/web/@37.45398166,-122.30164715,204....
Currently, the consolidation is occurring in financial vehicles and global corporations. ( a new kind of colonialism )
It is a bit of a questionable correlation I would agree.
Global corporations enter countries and begin to hold sway and control over the local governments. Though there is no settlements there is a strong financial force entering the countries. I know this isn't new but technology has compounded the effect.
Think the Arab Spring ( a lot would agree this was a good thing, its just an example ). This effort was mobilized/made possible by technology firms that entered those countries allowing them to place large pressures on the systems and change them. Good or bad is not the argument the question is if the external corporations were able to sway the direction of the countries.
In addition, I once heard a very famous investor from Omaha state they are able to sway the economic futures of countries. ( Hopefully they are benevolent in this )
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-07/jeff-bezo...
In my opinion all billionaires are sociopaths. I think it’s necessary to be one in order to become one, and most definitely to stay one. If you think “yeah I am the best person to manage this wealth”, then you’re already putting yourself over society. That they can look at the state of the world, and double down on personal wealth, makes it even clearer.