Centralization of Power
"But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to…a concentration and centralization of power… In a world of mass production and mass distribution the Little Man, with his inadequate stock of working capital, is at a grave disadvantage. In competition with the Big Man, he loses his money and finally his very existence as an independent producer; the Big Man has gobbled him up.
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“As the Little Men disappear, more and more economic power comes to be wielded by fewer and fewer people… This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country’s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody." — Aldous Huxley
Curt Merlo
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