A society that treats the current ownership of technological power as part of nature has already surrendered the constitutional question. The invisible hand in this debate has a board of directors, a cap table and government contracts. The Economist has mistaken its grip on the wheel for freedom.

it is an enduring, ancient malignancy, a pattern of abuse that merely undergoes periodic rebranding to suit the anxieties and political climate of the time. It is a cycle of moral and institutional failure, one that is periodically embarrassed and momentarily shamed when a spectacular scandal breaks the surface, yet it is rarely, if ever, truly abolished.