Charlie Bertsch, in Tuesday's Souciant.
One perspective in which it may be is this: Technological change begets economic change, which begets political change. The potency of "Democracy is always capitalism getting fat." stems from the fact that the common narrative is that political change is a choice rather than an inevitability. However, can a political system really defy an economic one? History would suggest the answer is most often 'no'. It seems only right that in this moment of accelerating technological change, democracy should be exposed as more byproduct than innovation, which is a terrifying thought. What will political systems will new our economics sustain?For the purposes of this equation, we are trapped in a perpetual “now” in which democracy is always subordinated to the power of capital. Is this really true?