> While Nature can’t do its selection on ethical grounds, we can, and do, when we select what kinds of companies and rules and power centers are filling which niches in our world. It’s a decentralized operation (like evolution), not controlled by any single entity, but consisting of the “sum total of the wills of the masses,” as Tolstoy put it.

Alternatively, corporations and kings can manufacture the right kinds of opinions in people to sanction and direct the wills of the masses.