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Yes. Example, late state Roman Republic, power concentration into a few Generals with armies. This lead to a dictatorship.

But this time, current time, with technology, it seems different.

Even though you could make same arguments that the printing press had similar effects and criticisms. Hence this is just another cycle of technology change. But really, does seem different in scale this time around.



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