The corruption in tech, perhaps inevitable or intrinsic, looks more and more like the forces that tore the Soviet Union and then Russia apart.

1) A "revolution" and promises of new fairness

2) A Nomenklatura

3) The rise of unassailable systems and faith in them

4) Widespread failure and instability of those systems

5) Attempts to stabilise by handing more power to privateers

6) Abuse and corruption run wild amongst new oligarchs