The older I get the more attention I give to the role of power in society. It seems to me to play a role throughout society, a role not usually analyzed as such. What's important when one entity has power is that there is some countervailing force in society. Lacking that, you have injustice.
That's why unions were so important as counter balances to the big industrial powers in the 1950's and 60's. Today we have the big tech firms, the Microsofts, Amazons, Netflixes, Googles, etc., and we're still struggling to develop institutions of some sort to check their power.
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