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US politics
fromFortune
3 days ago

The Nobel laureate who co-wrote 'Why Nations Fail' warns U.S. democracy won't survive the AI jobpocalypse. AI boomers suggest the opposite. | Fortune

Deepening economic inequality and AI-driven job loss threaten U.S. democracy by weakening institutions and concentrating wealth, requiring policies like wealth taxes and job protections.
fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

America's Zombie Democracy

We have in our heads specific images of authoritarianism that come from the 20th century: uniformed men goose-stepping in jackboots, masses of people chanting party slogans, streets lined with giant portraits of the leader, secret opposition meetings in basements, interrogations under naked light bulbs, executions by firing squad. Similar things still happen-in China, North Korea, Iran. But I'd be surprised if this essay got me hauled off to prison in America.
World politics
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