Quickly —
History shows something important: when the profit system gets in trouble, the oligarchs turn toward autocracy. This can be seen in many regimes of the past, including the Assyrian, the Roman, the French, the German, and now in the United States.* Fascism is essentially the uniting of the business establishment with the government into one collusive entity.
Often forgotten, especially in America, is the fact that the big legacy media companies, and now big Internet companies are themselves profit-making machines. No matter how many good people there may be in these industries, as they are called, the workings of this cohesive, gelatinous oneness are — sadly —– quite corrupt.
*See the great histories by Will Durant, and Ariel Durant, especially Our Oriental Heritage, (et. al.).
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