At the foundation of the U.S., in the Federalist Papers #51 (1788) it says:
> If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary
To your point:
> I wonder if advances in technology will one day create a coalition of super powerful people who will control the world and will make the rest of humanity salves at best and completely worthless at worst.
It's hard to say we haven't come dangerously close to achieving this approximation already. Regardless of your political affiliation, there was a headline today saying that Facebook is categorizing protests formed on its platform as "dangerous misinformation". This is a dangerously powerful stance that we shouldn't take lightly.
Not seeing any myself given social distancing back then and now meant different things to people. Back then it would be some form of euphemism for - governmental cover up, which is not the go to definition we all know today when somebody says "social distancing".
What similarities other than both were protests are you seeing?
Btw, why is this post being flagged?
>... make the rest of humanity slaves at best and completely worthless at worst.
Reminds me of an old IT joke - We finally made the perfect code, it debugs itself. Alas when we run it, it electriculted the programmer.
https://www.rt.com/news/486269-israel-protest-social-distanc...
And also, I was just having philosophical thoughts about the distribution of power in the world. I wonder if advances in technology will one day create a coalition of super powerful people who will control the world and will make the rest of humanity slaves at best and completely worthless at worst.
I mean, do ethical people naturally gravitate toward power? or does power tend to attract the less empathetic (to put it nicely)?
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I even fear one day we won't be even able to post about this topic.