New MI6 chief: Tech bosses are becoming as powerful as nations

19 pointsposted 2 months ago
by voxadam

7 Comments

SilverElfin

2 months ago

Yes this is true. But it was already a problem that individual companies are as powerful as nations. No company should be worth a trillion dollars. It distorts the market and there can’t be fair competition against these mega corps.

jauntywundrkind

2 months ago

they're also not as constrained as nations are to act or spend money.

and are often capable of situating their matters in favorable jurisdictions. or (recently again) sowing dissolution against established states or unions.

felixfurtak

2 months ago

Someone's been watching Alien Earth...

trolleski

2 months ago

This one is s-h-a-r-p! Is it just me or does it feel like Kabuki so that that can do 'something' about it, so that the tech lords can get back into the shadows?

trolleski

2 months ago

I'm probably paranoid though. As always, nothing happens, ever, enter the skeptics.

metalman

2 months ago

ask Jack Ma about that

m4ck_

2 months ago

billionaires are effectively stateless, governments should treat them as major security risks IMO.

personally I have money on elon launching rockets at someone after coming out of a bad k-hole. I will admit, his tolerance for rhino ket is admirable.