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I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
Authoritarian regimes and tech companies possess a striking similarity: an appetite for information about their populations. While Big Tech leverages this data for advertising profits, authoritarian states use it to tighten their grip on their populations.
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When the bourgeoisie was still struggling against the nobility backed by the clergy, they advocated free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, they changed their tune and manner and today use religion to support their economic and political control and power.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
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