As for the technocrats of Google and Goldman Sachs, the vast accumulation of money that increasingly could not be efficiently reinvested, but still created a vast gap in wealth that had been alleviated to some extent after World War II, has become a defining characteristic of society. The accumulation of wealth by experts, combined with the decreasing efficiency of technocracy, is creating this third institutional crisis. But because it’s early in the crisis, those who in some way recognize it are still impotent to change it. President Trump came into office promising to “drain the swamp,” a
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