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agreed, but consolidation in this way is a property of _capitalism_, not of tech



I would disagree tremendously based on the centralization of tech in search, storage, social & hardware.


What about JP Morgan and the Railroad Trusts? The big 4 accounting firms? Big pharma? The Magic Circle of Law Firms? I could keep going.


That all of those systems are extremely centralized? i don't get your point on this one as it seems to reaffirm my comment.


The centralized nature of these oligopolies is a property of capitalism, i.e. capital consolidates power. You are saying that search, storage etc are centralised because of the tech? Why are they any more centralised than the other (pre-internet) examples I mentioned?


ahh, i was looking at those company's 'as tech'. In the sense of technology, not internet company's we see today.

To be honest I think we agree, we are just getting caught up in semantics. Whether it is capitalism or tech that's doing it is irrelevant because we have the development of technology in a capitalistic world order. In other words, it is impossible to differentiate when the two are so intertwined.




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