> I find it interesting that all these technologies that are supposed to make our lives easier really just end up transferring power from one group of people to another.

But that's what affluent people have always been doing whenever given unrestricted freedom. That's because they are better at using technology and finances and everything else.

Bitcoin was supposed to free money from financial institutions. But that's naive -- financial institutions have way more firepower and experience at subverting markets to their will.

The same goes for anything else. The larger the company the easier time it has to influence lawmaking, judicial, executive.

Maybe what we need is an equivalent of Butlerian Jihad but against organisations that are too big to be controlled.