not a coalition per se. Yeah, those people are always way, way off center. The sort of no regulation this is like David Crockett's America is so totally missing the ball. Actually, you know, this point about power I think is actually central and I've something I've talked about. It's not a coincidence that we got democratic reforms and moved towards more pluralistic systems of representation after the end of the bubonic plague and the price of labor went up. Labor was empowered and with the empowerment of labor, you got the empowerment of civic bodies and the population, people. And I think that it's also not a coincidence that we've seen increased fragmentation and rising populism and political dissatisfaction in Western democracies since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of globalization, which disempowered labor in these Western countries and also technology also appropriated more power towards capital against labor. And so you've seen this move of disempowerment of labor (37/57)
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