This article misses how "unbridled capitalism" has radically improved the lives of the global poor. While I consider myself left-leaning, but it's amazing how often left-of-center folks get this one wrong. I don't want a corporate dystopia either, but the number of people that have been lifted out of extreme poverty by the globalized economy is staggering.

What I think these articles truly represent is the psychic unease of the Western middle class, which has not been helped by this revolution but has seen their influence and social mobility wane. They realize (rightly, I think) that their societies face an existential risk from extremely concentrated wealth and concoct these narratives as a way of trying to signal that problem.